Known for its sun-soaked beaches, monumental parties and cultural melting pot, Miami has a unique sound that has influenced ...

De Los reporters Cerys Davies and Andrea Flores, along with contributing writer Ernesto Lechner, put together this list of 30 ...

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With Fresh Picks, Billboard aims to highlight some of the best and most interesting new sounds across R&B and hip-hop — from Otis Kane’s lovestruck new single to BabyDrill’s shot-firing banger. Be ...

Lamar released an album in November and announced a tour that starts in April. Will that play a role in his Super Bowl set ...

To coincide with what would have been Mac Miller’s 33rd birthday, his estate has given us all a present, an unreleased album by the late hip-hop star.

NEW YORK — Ten of the best songs of the year ... a triumphant declaration of West Coast hip-hop, funny and bombastic. “Like That,” Future, Metro Boomin and Kendrick Lamar Future and Metro ...

When the mainstream popularity of rap music elevated in the late 1980s, it often did so with the help of inventive sampling. While many samples came from the R&B funk world, clever hip-hop artists and ...

Or to put it another way, what separates the best songs for New Year's Eve events from ... one of them is probably “get into fewer rap beefs.” But that doesn’t mean he can’t make it ...

Vince Staples gets deeply personal on Dark Times, his most introspective album since 2015’s Summertime ’06. With a slower, atmospheric production style influenced by jazz, the album explores past ...

Here are a few things on our radar this year on the St. Louis arts and entertainment scene. Also catch "Chicken and Biscuit" ...

Ringo Starr maintains his perpetual optimism in “Look Up,” the title track of his new, Nashville-centered album. Written by T ...