Despite Slipping on the Charts, Hip-Hop Dominated This Year's Grammy Nominations

Though some feared for the genre's relevance in 2025, rap is well represented in the noms - especially Album of the Year ...

Wot no hip-hop?: The Billboard Top 30 is rap free – for the first time in 35 years

The current US Top 30 has no songs that could be officially described as rap or hip-hop – for the first time since 1990. That ...

Playboi Carti, Rage Rap’s Goth King, Beckons Brooklyn to the Pit

The rapper, who has become one of hip-hop’s leading stars, presided over a sweaty tangle of young men outfitted in black and ...
Uproxx

Elliott Wilson Picks The Best Hip-Hop Songs And Albums Of 2025 So Far

We live in the Dot era. After demolishing rap rival Drake last year, Kendrick Lamar’s victory lap has dominated 2025 and the current hip-hop landscape. Super Bowl performance. More Grammy wins. “Not ...
AllHipHop

Lil Yachty Trends For Saying Current Rap “Sucks”—But Gets Blamed For Contributing To It

While fellow panelist Tierra Whack praised the “freedom” in rap right now, Lil Yachty countered, “I’m just saying people are too safe now. I’d rather take the risk and take the L.” At one point in the ...
StereogumOpinion

There Are No Rap Songs In The Top 40 For The First Time In 35 Years

Yesterday, Billboard deputy editor and Stereogum buddy Andrew Unterberger published a piece with some confusing implications: ...
Vibe on MSNOpinion

Pop Goes Hip-Hop: Take Rap's "Exit" From Billboard's Top 40 With A Grain Of Salt

"Just A Friend" screamed POP HIT! The "vocalist," a Long Island, New York MC, deejay and beat boxing jokester, was laughably ...
Yahoo

Snoop Dogg Says Drake And Kendrick Lamar Beef Made People Finally “Rap Again”

Snoop Dogg details his true feelings on the feud between Drake and Kendrick Lamar. The West Coast rapper shared his thoughts on the latest rap beef to take center stage. According to the Doggystyle ...
AllHipHop

The Disdain For Current Mainstream Rap Is Getting Louder—Just Ask Wallo, Juicy J Or Xzibit

Wallo recently claimed the rap industry landscape is “undergoing a remarkable transformation” and insists fans of the genre have grown tired of the monotony ruling the charts. Million Dollaz Worth of ...
The Root

Are Dr. Dre’s Thoughts on the Current Hip-Hop Landscape Correct?

Whenever an “old head” shares their thoughts on the current landscape of hip-hop, I expect to hear something negative. They often say “Everything sounds the same” or “All they do is mumble on every ...
Complex

Fabolous on Lyricism in Current Rap: 'I Think It's Still Here, In A Sense'

Fabolous isn't ready to wave the white flag when it comes to the lack of lyricism in today's rap game. On the latest episode of Big Tipper's Rap City Beyond the Basement, the Brooklyn MC maintained ...
St. Louis American

Hip-hop and feminist?

Recently, on a rainy night, a small but mighty crowd braved the storm to talk about hip-hop and feminism at UMSL. “I go back to ’87 and ‘Self-Destruction,’ and the tightest verse on there was MC Lyte, ...