Billboard has been charting “Hot Rap Songs” since 1989, the same year the Grammys first recognized rap as a legitimate art form and not just a passing trend (even if “Parents Just Don’t Understand” ...

Welcome to Listening Habits, a column where I share the music I’ve been fixated on recently. After working in music ...

After a year dominated by one major event—Drake vs. Kendrick Lamar—it’s easy to forget that the sounds pushing rap music forward often come from the fringes. That’s why our annual Rappers to Watch ...

If you listen to rap music, or if you watch professional basketball, you know that one of the core experiences associated with both is hating. Not in a malicious sense, of course — more a petty one.

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 ...

Clicking through Tenkay’s SoundCloud page is like time traveling back to 2012. There, the Houston native has his take on Lil B cooking songs, horny Ruben Slikk freestyles, Texas dance rap, ...

Many athletes get into competitive mode by listening to a pump-up playlist before they compete. Eminem's "Till I Collapse" and "Lose Yourself," "Eye of the Tiger" by Survivor and "We Will Rock You" by ...