Rapper Kay Flock, real name Kevin Perez, has been sentenced to 30 years in prison for a series of shootings in his Bronx ...

The album, released on a Wednesday for the rapper's 31st birthday, rockets after its first full tracking week.

The rapper known as Kay Flock has been sentenced to 30 years in prison for a series of shootings in his Bronx neighborhood, derailing a music career that was just taking off before his 2021 ...

Here is a recap of Billboard Boxscore's top 10 rap tours of 2025, featuring Travis Scott, Wu-Tang Clan and more.

More than two decades after its release, Eminem's "Lose Yourself" finally becomes the bestselling rap song in America — as ...

The NPR Music critic and All Songs Considered contributor's favorite records of the year include the best of British rap, ...

In a year when hip-hop was frequently absent from the pop charts, NPR's music critic found that looking in darker corners ...

Billboard crowns Cardi B #1 on their hottest female rap artists of 2025 list beating out a number of other acts.

This past fall, for the first time since 1990, there wasn’t a single rap song in the Billboard Hot 100’s top 40. Megan Thee ...

During the week of October 25 through November 1, for the first time in 35 years, no rap songs appeared on Billboard’s top 40. For many, it signaled the death knell of hip-hop’s slow, but imminent, ...

H. Rap Brown, one of the most vocal leaders of the Black Power movement, has died in a prison hospital while serving a life sentence for the killing of a Georgia sheriff’s deputy. He was 82. Brown — ...

A charismatic orator in the 1960s, he called for armed resistance to white oppression. As a Muslim cleric, he was convicted of murder in 2000 and died in detention. By Paul Vitello Jamil Abdullah ...