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 ...

Timothée Chalamet shouted out his girlfriend Kylie Jenner in his new rap song with his rumored alter-ego EsDeeKid. “It’s Timothée Chalamet chillin’, tryin’ to stack $100 million. Girl got $1 billion,” ...

We’ve come up with a balance of Y2K, late-2000s, Tumblr-era, and recency-biased records to share. This updated list is an ...

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 ...

The year 2025’s standout tracks reflected shifts in sound, storytelling, and digital influence. Kehlani, Clipse, and Doechii each brought unique perspectives that resonated across platforms. These ...

YouTube’s move to stop sharing streaming data for Billboard’s music charts could change how we think about metrics Billboard’s latest change, and YouTube’s subsequent action, point to a more ...

We don’t always feel cycles; we live through them. Sunsets on this spinning rock we inhabit aren’t the end of days — they’re just signs of another trip around the sun, a reset. Rap is no different; it ...

Reports of Lil Timmy Tim’s death have been greatly exaggerated. The rap alter ego of Oscar-nominee and Marty Supreme star Timothée Chalamet has long been dormant since the actor graduated from Algebra ...

Since hip-hop's inception, the genre has exponentially grown with every single decade, and the 2000s era was no different. Hip-hop saw even more commercial success than before; it succeeded in ...

The best songs of 2025 worked admirably toward the daunting task of attempting to describe what it feels like to be alive in the unpredictability matrix of the mid-’20s. Songwriters expressing pangs ...