With "All the Way," BigXthaPlug earns his first No. 1 on Hot Rap Songs, as the single is the first to rule both that and the Hot Country Songs charts.

Billboard has been charting “Hot Rap Songs” since 1989, the same year the Grammys first recognized rap as a legitimate art form and not just a passing trend (even if “Parents Just Don’t Understand” ...

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We live in the Dot era. After demolishing rap rival Drake last year, Kendrick Lamar’s victory lap has dominated 2025 and the current hip-hop landscape. Super Bowl performance. More Grammy wins. “Not ...

Fresh off scoring a brand new No. 1 album on Billboard’s charts, rock-rap-pop-duo Twenty One Pilots brought a blowout of a ...

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It all started with a party in the Bronx, New York, in 1978. Blondie‘s Chris Stein and Debbie Harry were friends with Fab 5 Freddy (Fred Brathwaite), who invited them to a music gathering at the ...

It’s no secret that the world of rap music has endured more than its fair share of tragedy over the years. Like the psychedelic rockers in the late 60s or the grunge stars in the mid-90s, rap has lost ...

I set out with a goal to make a rap song in one hour. But with not much in the department of musical ability, I struggled to put together a coherent song. But after three tries at it, I was eventually ...