HotNewHipHop closes February with top hip-hop releases, highlighting innovation, diversity, and the genre’s evolution.

THE WEEK’S MOST POPULAR CURRENT R&B/HIP-HOP SONGS ACROSS ALL GENRES, RANKED BY STREAMING ACTIVITY DATA BY ONLINE MUSIC SOURCES TRACKED BY LUMINATE, RADIO AIRPLAY AUDIENCE IMPRESSIONS AS MEASURED ...

All of it relates to the early '80s hip-hop scene in North Jersey ... son of the groundbreaking producer (she died in 2011). "She recorded songs that would be here today and here tomorrow as ...

Chuck "Jigsaw" Creekmur talks about Angie Stone's profound impact on music talking to legends of Hip-Hop Culture.

On this day in 1989, Corona, Queens rap and street legend Kool G. Rap and DJ Polo released their first album on the ...

Here are three takeaways from Hit Songs Deconstructed’s latest in-depth research. Hip-hop/rap reigned as the most common primary genre in the Hot 100’s top 10 throughout 2024, contributing to ...

Since hip-hop's inception, the genre has exponentially ... Between all of the music that was released between the years 2000 and 2009, many songs probably don't always get the proper recognition ...

Roy Ayers, the towering jazz figure, passed away on Tuesday, March 4, at 84. Hip-Hop Wired has put together eight essential ...

Albums like Mystic Stylez and hits like “Stay Fly ... and party tracks in the late ’80s and early ’90s helped shape the blueprint for Memphis Hip Hop, influencing legends like Three ...

It wasn’t until I got to Morehouse College and truly began my musical education (largely through crate digging for songs that laid the foundation for many of my favorite hip-hop records ...