They’re not merely icebreakers for casuals who watch Tiny Desk performances on weekends — they’re visual time capsules forever etched in hip-hop history. Below, Billboard’s hip-hop braintrust ranked ...

Which is why, in our ranking of the 30 best hip-hop soundtracks of all time, most picks come from the 1990s, when hip-hop soundtracks reigned. Times are very different now, and the hip-hop soundtrack ...

More than any other form of music, hip-hop is and always has been about business — one of its earliest call-and-response chants was “Make money, money.” That hasn’t changed in the years between the ...

From Illmatic to The Chronic, these are the most important—and greatest—rap albums of the ’90s. One rule changed everything: ...

Lil Kim just earned another major accolade nearly thirty years after she changed the sound and style of rap. Billboard has officially ranked her debut album Hard Core as the greatest hip hop album ...

Ah, the hip-hop supergroup. It's a mythical hybrid beast, like a chimera or a gryphon, whose whole is greater than the sum of its constituent parts (at least ideally). But for all the planned and ...

NBA player and team drops have been a part of hip-hop lyrics for more than 50 years. Illustration: Kelsea Petersen / The Athletic; photos: Leon Bennett, Ezra Shaw, George De Sota, Emilee Chin / Getty ...

Spotify’s 20th anniversary data confirms Drake as the most-streamed rapper ever on the platform, ranking third overall behind Taylor Swift and Bad Bunny. The milestone comes as hip-hop continues to ...

It was the best of hip-hop times. It was the worst of hip-hop times. Ha! 2025 was a rollercoaster of rap music’s highs and lows. The duality was so real. I can’t recall a year with such a wide array ...