Vets and newbies flexed their best bars in 2025. After being spoiled by a monstrous three-peat from Future, a lyrical face-off between Drake and Kendrick Lamar, and scintillating releases from Doechii ...

In a year when hip-hop was frequently absent from the pop charts, NPR's music critic found that looking in darker corners ...

Sometimes you don’t have enough tracks for an album, but you want to put more music out into the world than a single. The EP ...

As we prepare to enter 2026, Okayplayer wraps up our 2025 with a list of the 25 songs that defined the year — a soundtrack of ...

New Orleans bounce artists HaSizzle and Big Freedia are both fans of the holiday season and have released Christmas bounce music in the past. They play a Christmas show on Dec. 20 at the Toulouse ...

Funk and jazz fusion band Ghost-Note plays the New Orleans Jazz & Blues Market on Saturday, Dec. 20. The band released their ...

From Clipse to Metro Boomin and Cardi B, the year was full of memorable rap songs that expanded and experimented with the genre ...

On our just-published year-end Hot 100 chart, 11 of the top 12 songs were released before 2025, and over half of them even ...

Technically, Up My Standards is a mixtape, but it sounds more like one long radio freestyle. The only moments where Philly’s ...

Percy Miller, better known as Master P, will be the new president of Basketball Operations for the University of New Orleans. On Feb. 26, the university announced that the "No Limit" soldier had been ...

The Phantom of the Opera,” Cameron Winter and Randolph Street Holiday Market are among the highlights in the week ahead.

Bryce Hopkins, who scored a team-high 26 points, shoots over Dan Skillings during St. John's 96-81 win over Baylor on Nov. 25, 2025. Getty Images LAS VEGAS — It was this time a year ago that St.