Explore hip-hop and rap-related collections from across the Smithsonian that offer perspective on the African American experience and its impact on American culture. The Smithsonian Anthology of ...

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 ...

Week in and week out, there are plenty of brand-new rap songs, no matter the time of year. It can be really difficult to stay aware of what's out and also what's hot, so XXL decided to make things ...

The Best New Hip-Hop This Week includes albums, videos, and songs from Babyface Ray, Joey Badass, and Playboi Carti. Do y’all see what happens when you hype up rap beef like that? Seemingly the ...

The Best New Hip-Hop This Week includes albums, videos, and songs from ASAP Rocky, LL Cool J, and Megan Thee Stallion. Although it’s something of a light week for new hip-hop albums, there’s ...

In the last 51 years, hip-hop has grown from what some people believed to be a fad to a global phenomenon. The culture has produced ground-breaking artists and record-breaking sales numbers ...

The week’s most popular songs, ranked by radio airplay audience impressions based on monitored airplay compiled by Luminate. Audience totals are derived, in part, using certain Nielsen Audio ...

Shoes have long been intertwined with celebrity culture, often becoming symbols of personal style, status or even social ...

Unless you’ve been living under a rock for the last half-century, it’s evident that Hip-Hop culture is internationally influential. A genre conceived in the boroughs of New York and birthed to ...

CHENGDU, China--In 2018, the censors who oversee Chinese media issued a directive to the nation's entertainment industry: Don't feature artists with tattoos and those who represent hip-hop or any ...

Ironically, she may have also made herself the world’s most famous hip-hop artist for that moment, a travesty that hurts real hip-hop artists and furthers damaging stereotypes of Black art.