The Best New Hip-Hop This Week includes albums, videos, and songs from EST Gee, Nardo Wick, and Will Smith.

Week in and week out, there are plenty of brand-new rap songs, no matter the time of year. It can be really difficult to stay aware of what's out and also what's hot, so XXL decided to make things ...

What are the best rhythm games on PC ... allowing users to plug in their own instruments (guitar and bass) and learn to play a multitude of songs. While Rocksmith doesn’t offer the pick up ...

The rapper and DJ, who died over the weekend at 43, was the biggest hit for the indie label Big Oomp Records. Its brief but ...

Who doesn’t love a good bass line, especially in rock music? These four songs feature very prominent and memorable bass lines, and we think they’d inspire any aspiring rock bassist to keep ...

Jeshi is a rapper from East London who has enjoyed some — but not enough — popularity for his debut album, 2022’s “Universal Credit,” an honest reflection of his life growing up inner-city and ...

Melodic punk, melancholy rap, acoustic folk, even a few jazz standards. Our music critics weigh in on the recent releases ...

Eminem has sold over 100 million albums worldwide, making him one of the best ... with seven songs reaching over a billion ...

While the bass and keys are doing most of the heavy lifting on the ... bringing in Brian May was a choice too perfect not to work. Half of Gaga’s best songs are based around that same flashy image ...

Common wisdom holds that the bass player is the “quiet one” in a band, playing essential parts of a song that you don’t necessarily notice. Not the case with the 55 best bassists ...

Our list of the 100 Best Protest Songs spans nearly a century and includes everything from pre-World War II jazz and Sixties folk to Eighties house music, 2000s R&B, and 2020s Cuban hip-hop.

THE WEEK’S MOST POPULAR CURRENT RAP SONGS ACROSS ALL GENRES, RANKED BY STREAMING ACTIVITY DATA BY ONLINE MUSIC SOURCES TRACKED BY LUMINATE, RADIO AIRPLAY AUDIENCE IMPRESSIONS AS MEASURED ...