Here are Pitchfork’s 40 best rap songs of 2025. Check out all of Pitchfork’s 2025 wrap-up coverage here. When Wham ( Lil Baby ...

Commentary: I’m not saying that everything should be a rhyming ballad, but everything should be a rhyming ballad. Free verse ...

Technically, Up My Standards is a mixtape, but it sounds more like one long radio freestyle. The only moments where Philly’s ...

In the latest installment of Five Fits With, the rapper tells us how he turned bootleg tapes into a new pair of sneakers—and ...

Busta Rhymes sternly sets the record straight for a young troll who boldly and incorrectly identified the rapper as comedian ...

Drake gets around 21 Savage and often takes the posture of, I think you should know my friend here is equipped with bazookas.

A Sleep Token song is No. 1 on The New York Times ' Best Songs of 2025 List. The publication shared the list earlier this ...

The moving documentary-visual album shows how a formerly incarcerated musician used rap to find healing during the darkest ...

From the cold menace of Savage Mode to the reflective scars of American Dream, 21’s music hits like a left hook gut punch and ...

Nas also showed love to his women fans, delivering “Owe Me” and his verse from Missy Elliott’s “Hot Boyz.” The night’s ...

The Decriminalizing Artistic Expression Act, passed in 2022, restricts the use of rap lyrics in criminal prosecutions, aiming ...