A new roundup of 2026's best hip-hop albums highlights the genre’s stylistic diversity and enduring cultural foundations. From politically charged UK acts to Southern U.S. innovators, the list ...

Kacey Musgraves. American Football. Tori Amos. NPR Music's Stephen Thompson chats with Jewly Hight from WPLN in Nashville ...

There’s a strong case to be made for 1994 being the greatest year for music of the 1990s. A new wave of British rock was ...

Afrika Bambaataa passed away in early April, reportedly of prostate cancer, at the age of sixty-eight. His legend is a split ...

Stay tuned for his return, and… This week Coachella wrapped up with a second, even more guest-filled weekend, plus we got the ...

The self-titled LP by the Sugarhill Gang, released in 1980, is widely regarded as the genre’s first full-length record. Three rappers select the albums that have captured the spirit of the medium in ...

Eve L. Fontes, who performs under the name Light Da Flow Minista, is a Canton-based hip-hop artist. While she's a longtime poet and hip-hop lyricist, Fontes recently gained attention for appearing on ...

UnityTX’s first concert in Pittsburgh still stands out to frontman Jay Webster — busting your head open and possibly suffering a concussion are hard to forget after all. At a 2022 show at Spirit Hall ...

J. Cole brings home another No. 1 album with The Fall-Off topping the Billboard 200. On Sunday (Feb. 15), Billboard reported the North Carolina native's double-disc effort landed atop the chart, ...

30 years ago today, Hip Hop icon Tupac Shakur released his fourth studio album All Eyez On Me on February 13, 1996 through Death Row Records and Interscope Records, delivering what would become one of ...