Starting in the late ’70s, hip-hop and rap ascended through popular culture, mostly in America but also in other countries. Then, in 1990, a breakthrough. Hip-hop and rap tracks began infiltrating the ...
When Nas said “hip-hop is dead,” this certainly isn’t what he meant. Since 1990, rap music has topped the music charts as arguably the most impactful genre in the world. But for the first time in ...
The Houston rapper ends rap's first period of being totally absent from the chart's top 40 since 1990. By Andrew Unterberger For the back-to-back Billboard Hot 100 charts this year dated Oct. 25 and ...
The latest Billboard Hot 100 chart is unlike any other one in recent memory. According to the outlet, for the first time in 35 years, there are no rap songs in the chart’s Top 40. The update comes as ...
As one long-running hip-hop smash goes recurrent on the chart, the Hot 100's top 40 does not boast a single rap song, ending a streak that's lasted for over 35 years. By Andrew Unterberger With ...
MEMPHIS, Tenn. - Celebrating hip hop and Memphis. The very first People's Hip Hop Awards Experience wrapped up Sunday night in the heart of the Bluff City. The show featured several star-studded names ...
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 ...
The Atlanta rapper felt that getting into a beef was a “lose-lose” for the OVO superstar. “Rap City was a religion. The hosts were the disciples,” former Def Jam President Kevin Liles said in Welcome ...
The spark of U.K. rap’s new era was ignited in 2021, and it glowed with the familiar warmth of plugg. “I’m in Mayfair eating lobster (lob-sta)/ She want me to take her to Costa (kos-tah)” raps YT on ...
2024 has been one wild year in hip-hop, and it's not even done yet. Rap has had its resurgence on the charts following a major lull in 2023, but 2024 will surely be remembered as the year beef. Can't ...
Rap and hip-hop music originated in the early 1970s as a minimalist sound that was contradictory to the formulaic and heavily orchestrated music coming from dance clubs and house parties. Since its ...
Alim Braxton, 50, has been behind bars in North Carolina since he was 19 years old. The Raleigh native went to prison in 1993 for taking two lives during a robbery spree. He went to death row in 1997, ...
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