On the last episode of All Songs Considered for 2025, NPR Music producer Lars Gotrich takes host Robin Hilton through an ...

Hip-hop was created in 1973, and during that decade, it was a genre still in its early stages that was more DJ-centric with focuses on b-boy dances and live performances. However, by the time the ...

In 2017, hip-hop became the most consumed genre in the US, and it hasn't shown any signs of slowing down. Now that we're just over the halfway mark into the 2020s, hip-hop continues to dominate with ...

The River City is nothing if not consistent. The world could be on fire, and that cool hip-hop collective you’ve heard of would still release four albums in a single year. Half the city could be ...

Leaked chat messages show ICE agents actively posting viral content of migrants, most of which is false or staged in an ...

From Agriculture to Ancient Death, Paradise Lost to Pissgrave, Corpus Offal to Coroner, here are the best metal albums of ...

Year-end season is normally all about positivity—publications pick their favorite albums and songs from the previous 12 ...

Rap in 2025 was all about experimentation. From the year’s first runaway hit, NBA player-turned-musician Gelo’s single “Tweaker,” to the maximalist ecclesiastics of Playboi Carti’s Music, or even in ...

Song Sung Blue" gives Memphis filmmaker Craig Brewer the opportunity to return to movie theaters in a major way for the first time since 2011.

( KTLA) — Each holiday season, our ears are inundated with Christmas music — and though many songs have become beloved classics, other, more contemporary ones, fade away and are forgotten. Paul ...

We should address the elephant in the room: hip-hop did not have a strong year on the charts. In fact, rap music had its worst showing in years. Back in October, it made headlines when—for the first ...

The nominees for Best Rap Song at the 2026 Grammys are in. Grammy SZN has officially commenced. On Friday (Nov. 7), The Recording Academy revealed all the nominees for the 68th Annual Grammy Awards.