Like every year, 2021 was an excellent year for rap music, with so many great albums coming from all across the board. From the poppiest pop-rap to the most experimental interpretations of hip hop, ...

Recency bias is real. As 2021 races to a close and music obsessives rush to build their personal year-end lists, those tallies will likely be skewed toward releases that have hit the web since the ...

It’s time to select your top contributors to the culture as we recognize those who helped advance the scene in 2021. 2021 was an incredible year for battle rap, with some of the most impactful cards ...

Pop Smoke’s Shoot for the Stars Aim for the Moon is the best-performing rap album of 2021 so far, despite being released in 2020, according to a chart from Hits Daily Double. The Year to Date Overall ...

Skillz has decided to release a “2021 Rap Up” song despite previously claiming he was done with the annual Hip Hop tradition. Skillz recently claimed he wouldn’t release a “Rap Up” song for 2021, but ...

In theory, we’d be able to just press play on our favorite music and enjoy the experience without any guilt or conflict. But that’s becoming more difficult than ever, and it doesn’t seem like it’s ...

"The Smithsonian Anthology of Hip-Hop and Rap" features 129 songs from the last four decades. The anthology will be paired with a 300-page book featuring relevant essays and pieces. The anthology will ...

“The Rap-Unzel [of] today has experienced a lot more life, the good and the bad,” says the Richmond, Virginia native who just released her new EP. After first introducing herself to the world by ...

Rap-Unzel put five years of maturity in between 'The Rap Game' and her debut EP, 'Pun Intended.' In 2017, a 15 year-old Brazil Barber, who goes by Rap-Unzel, competed on Jermaine Dupri’s The Rap Game ...

In 2021, the grand and majestic rap stars all let us down. Drake made another commercial megalith, an album that dominated charts to an absurd degree, and it was just OK. Kanye West made a vast ...

So much rap music comes out all the time, and especially with frequent surprise releases, it can be hard to keep track of it all. So, as a way to help keep up with all of it, here’s a roundup of the ...