New class action lawsuit accuses Spotify of turning “a blind eye” to “mass-scale fraudulent streaming” that allegedly helped Drake but harmed others.

which can spit out new songs based on prompts typed into a chatbot-style text box. Users, who don’t need musical talent, can merely request a tune in the style of, for example, classic rock, 1980s ...

Rapper Kanye West reveals his all-time favorite song is a rock cover by Jimi Hendrix of Bob Dylans' All Along the Watchtower.

Just in 2025, New Orleans rapper La Reezy has received a major award from the Hip Hop Museum, released three projects, ...

For the first time in 35 years, there are no rap songs in the Billboard Hot 100’s top 40. The shift came after Kendrick Lamar ...

Hurricane Melissa passed through Cuba, Haiti and Jamaica. Bodies lay on the street after a police raid in Rio de Janeiro. In ...

"The lack of rap songs in the Hot 100’s top 40 is the latest sign of a recent dip in rap’s commercial dominance," Billboard ...

Luther” fell off the Billboard Hot 100 due to the chart’s new recurrent rule, ending Hip-Hop’s 35-year top 40 streak.

"Rap music is still all over the top 40; it's just not being made by rappers," Stereogum's Tom Breihan observed in a column ...

Canadian recording artist Drake have stated that he is appealing his defamation case against Universal Music Group (UMG) ...

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

Billboard reports that “the lack of rap songs in the Hot 100’s top 40 is the latest sign of a recent dip in rap’s commercial ...