Rap music had a strong year in 2025, and 2026 is coming with even more new music. Big stars are getting ready to drop new ...

Drake closed out 2025 at the top of Spotify once more, finishing the year as the platform’s most-streamed rapper for the 11th consecutive year. The milestone reinforced his rare longevity in an ...

If you’re within a certain age bracket, you’ll remember the news being delivered with grave certainty: The iPod is going to end the album as we know it. Yet for as many 99-cent songs as were purchased ...

In a year that had no rap songs in the Billboard Hot 100’s Top 40 for the first time since 1990, rap thrived in so many other ways. This list of the 25 best rap albums of 2025 includes grand ...

Rap in 2025 was all about experimentation. From the year’s first runaway hit, NBA player-turned-musician Gelo’s single “Tweaker,” to the maximalist ecclesiastics of Playboi Carti’s Music, or even in ...