Here are Pitchfork’s 40 best rap songs of 2025. Check out all of Pitchfork’s 2025 wrap-up coverage here. When Wham ( Lil Baby ’s government-mandated nickname) isn’t too busy playing dice games with ...

We’re at the end of yet another year where commentators and fans speculated on the health of the rap world. In October, it was reported that, for the first time in 35 years, there were no rap songs in ...

Whelp, this just happened. The Game lit up Club Shay Shay during a new sit down with Shannon Sharpe by laying claim to a ...

The screen flickers. A PlayStation startup sound hums beneath a grainy hip-hop beat, and for a moment, you’re not sure if you ...

Republic Records is not just dropping albums anymore. Now it is dropping gamers straight into a virtual fight arena. The label is teaming up with developer Nothing Projects Interactive ...

The latest Billboard Hot 100 chart is unlike any other one in recent memory. According to the outlet, for the first time in 35 years, there are no rap songs in the chart’s Top 40. The update comes as ...

For the first time in more than 35 years, no rap songs appear in the Billboard Hot 100's top 40. The streak came to an end on the chart dated Oct. 25, 2025, following the fall of Kendrick Lamar and ...

Hip-hop has officially exited the upper echelon of the Billboard Hot 100 chart for the first time in more than three decades. The top 40 of the iconic chart currently contains zero rap songs, marking ...

As one long-running hip-hop smash goes recurrent on the chart, the Hot 100's top 40 does not boast a single rap song, ending a streak that's lasted for over 35 years. By Andrew Unterberger With ...

When we first set out to celebrate iconic game music a few years back, we focused on the 8-bit and 16-bit console era – think Super Metroid, TMNT, and Zelda. The brainstorming for that feature was ...

PC maker Maingear has just spawned a hellish new special edition Doom gaming PC range into its catalog, with the new machines making several nods to id's classic shooter franchise across the years.

New Orleans and Louisiana have left an indelible mark on rap music as the home state of some of the genre's biggest stars and most iconic record labels. Five albums by Louisiana artists were selected ...