With Kendrick Lamar and SZA’s 13-week Billboard Hot 100 No. 1 “Luther” falling off the Hot 100 dated Oct. 25, 2025, there were officially no rap songs in the chart’s top 40 last week. The ...

We’d gone over a year — 54 weeks total — without a rap No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100. But for the first time since Nicki Minaj’s “Super Freaky Girl” reigned in Aug. 2022, a song tops both Billboard‘s ...

Coi Leray has a solution to a notable music issue in 2023. Since the beginning of the year, a hip-hop song has not reached No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100, nor has a hip-hop album topped the Billboard ...

Within the past 10 years, hip-hop has officially become the most streamed musical genre in the U.S., yet its impact on the world has long been undeniable. Rap music has become not only the beat that ...

XXL celebrates 50 years of hip-hop with this moment: Jan. 14, 2006: Atlanta rap crew D4L crafted a platinum-selling hit and guaranteed new millennium party-starter when they recorded their 2005 single ...

The set leads Billboard's 100-position Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums of the 21st Century retrospective. Here's a breakdown of the 2000-24 top 10. By Trevor Anderson Lil Baby gets his turn atop a Billboard ...

Hip-Hop Connection, the world’s longest running monthly hip-hop magazine, will release it’s 198th edition on Feb. 7. The latest issue counts down the top 100 rap albums of the past decade (1995-2005).

To read more about the background of the list and my thoughts on making it, check out the introduction to my rankings. Without further ado, here are #10-1 of my top 100 hip-hop/rap albums of the 2010s ...

In the 21st century, it’s not unusual for a hip-hop artist to top America’s pop charts, the Billboard Hot 100 (singles) and Billboard 200 (albums). However, when rap groups started showing up on the ...