Is hip-hop over? According to the Billboard charts, that just might be the case

For the first time in more than three decades, not a single rap song ranks among the 40 most popular tracks in America.

Hip Hop On The High Seas: Inside The 2025 Rock The Bells Cruise

Aboard the annual four-night Hip Hop cruise, legends and fans came together for an unforgettable celebration of music, ...
Opinion

Hip-Hop Misses Top 40 for the First Time in 35 Years — But Every New Taylor Swift Song Made the Chart

For the first time since 1990, the Top 40 of Billboard's Hot 100 chart is completely devoid of any hip-hop and/or rap songs.
Black Enterprise

Hip-Hop Stars Who Went From Rap To Business Owners

Aug. 11 is hip-hop’s official birthday. On this day, 52 years ago, not only was a genre of music born, but a culture was birthed too. This culture would go on to create industries that made ...

This rap group put ‘Strong Island’ on the hip-hop map, broke through NYC barrier

Rap pioneers JVC Force put the suburbs on the hip-hop map with the iconic anthem “Strong Island” in the late 1980s — and their funk-filled ode to Long Island has new life stretching all the way across ...