When Hip Hop historians look back at 2024, undoubtedly the climactic confrontation between Drake and Kendrick Lamar will be the centerpiece of contextualization. And it makes sense. The Rap Avengers ...

Cruising over the instrumental for Scarface’s “My Block,” Cam’ron makes it sound like he's taking a stroll around his own stomping grounds as he unloads clever quips with a rare mix of humor and ...

What does good rapping sound like in 2025? It depends on who you ask. It’s no secret that hip-hop is more splintered than ever, with different pockets and intersections thriving in their own ...

The Recording Academy presents three different awards for hip-hop songs at each annual Grammy Awards ceremony: Best Rap Song, Best Melodic Rap Performance, and Best Rap Performance. While it’s easy to ...

Hip-hop celebrated its fiftieth anniversary in 2023, and from its early renegade beginnings to becoming a big fish in the mainstream, many a clever lyric has been turned out by talented rhymers who ...

A video of an Atlanta teacher's first day of school went viral after she delivered a superior performance of a Busta Rhymes rap, which the hip-hop icon himself couldn't help but applaud. Bearden's ...

“Crack mothers, crack babies and AIDS patients / Youngbloods can’t spell, but they could rock you in PlayStation.” Mos Def raises the stakes of this rhyme in the first line by presenting the ...

Hip-hop celebrated its fiftieth anniversary two years ago, and from its early renegade beginnings to becoming a big fish in the mainstream, many a clever lyric has been turned out by talented rhymers ...

We try to stick to one guiding principle when making our best rap verses of the year lists: one verse per rapper. This year was different. Two thousand and twenty-four featured the greatest rap battle ...

Although the Grammy Awards came out in 1959, the Recording Academy didn’t debut the Best Rap Performance award until 1989, a year in which it was awarded to DJ Jazzy Jeff & The Fresh Prince for ...