Complex’s 2026 Hip-Hop Media Power Ranking maps who really moves the conversation. In a year where rap has no dominant stars ...

Al Kapone and DJ Zirk hosted the Memphis Rap OGz set at RiverBeat, which featured Tom Skeemask, Gangsta Blac, Frayser Boy, ...

Becky G, Billboard's 2026 Latin Women in Music Global Impact Award recipient, on her new album, returning to rap and more in a Billboard cover story.

Across the United States, a generation of young Americans of Indian and Pakistani origin — the children and grandchildren of immigrants — are using Punjabi music as a bridge back to their cultures.

New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani is still making money from his short-lived career as a multilingual rapper, tax filings show. But the 34-year-old Democrat’s meteoric rise as a celebrity politician ...

School Yard Rap partners with schools to deliver hip-hop expanded learning programs. Proposal lists R.A.P. camp and an affinity camp; district says open to all students. Controversy centers on ...

An underperforming California school district is dishing out nearly $300,000 to partner with a group to teach a rap-based curriculum to students, sparking "troubling" concerns, the Justice Department ...

A reader recently asked us which old-school rap songs would never survive a modern label’s legal review, and honestly, the list writes itself. It sounds simple until you actually start answering it.

“I wish that I had Jessie’s girl / Where can I find a woman like that?” “Jessie’s Girl” was a massive hit for Rick Springfield in 1981. A power pop classic with a rock edge, this song was a No. 1 hit ...

“I said a hip hop, hippie to the hippie, the hip, hip a hop, and you don’t stop, a rock it to the bang bang boogie, say, up jump the boogie, to the rhythm of the boogie, the beat. Now, what you hear ...