New research shows playlists push sameness in hip-hop: shared 808 drums, shorter songs, heavy auto-tune, and more uniform lyrics across 2022 hits.

I’m torn. On one hand, with a rapper like Finesse2Tymes, you really do want them to grow up and grow beyond what they’ve known — if only for their own self-preservation, since hood habits have often ...

After wrapping the last century on a high note that only Mariah Carey’s vocal cords could challenge, R&B and hip-hop’s contributions to the musical canon swelled in the first 25 years of the 21st ...

Burna Boy lands a career milestone on Billboard’s Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart, as the superstar picks up his first top 10 through his featured role on Gunna’s “wgft.” The track climbs 11-10 on the ...

Hot on the heels of their R&B list, Spotify’s first-ever program to celebrate catalog music, Spotify CLASSICS, has ranked the top 100 Hip-Hop songs of the Streaming Era. For its criteria, Spotify ...

In 2017, hip-hop became the most consumed genre in the US, and it hasn't shown any signs of slowing down. Now that we're just over the halfway mark into the 2020s, hip-hop continues to dominate with ...