THE WEEK’S MOST POPULAR CURRENT RAP SONGS ACROSS ALL GENRES, RANKED BY STREAMING ACTIVITY DATA BY ONLINE MUSIC SOURCES TRACKED BY LUMINATE, RADIO AIRPLAY AUDIENCE IMPRESSIONS AS MEASURED ...

THE WEEK’S MOST POPULAR CURRENT RAP SONGS ACROSS ALL GENRES, RANKED BY STREAMING ACTIVITY DATA BY ONLINE MUSIC SOURCES TRACKED BY LUMINATE, RADIO AIRPLAY AUDIENCE IMPRESSIONS AS MEASURED ...

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The world’s biggest drill rapper may spend the rest of his life in bars — and no one should want his crown. This week, Chicago rapper Lil Durk was arrested in an alleged murder-for-hire plot to kill ...

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A lovely idea, but, unfortunately, the record contains the most lethargic songs of Harper’s career. This early Sparklehorse ...

DJ Paul and Juicy J accuse $uicideboy$ of stealing dozens of Three 6 Mafia songs, even using several of the same titles.

The resulting mystique — further fostered by his tendency to deflect personal questions in interviews — allowed him to depart from rap’s obsession with authenticity by emphasizing imagination and ...

Madison Youth Poet Laureate and rapper Justin Russell insists he wrote his first rap song out of necessity. The diss track, ...

Will Hatcher got internet famous when Metro Boomin sampled his AI-generated song for a diss track released during the ...

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Grammy-winning rapper Lil Durk has been charged in a murder-for-hire plot targeting rapper Quando Rondo over his alleged involvement in the killing of up-and-coming musician King Von in 2020 in ...