As rap stops appearing in global charts, fans wonder if rap is on the decline in it's prominence in the current culture.

Kendrick Lamar continues to cement his legacy as one of the most influential artists in modern rap. His latest album, GNX, has officially surpassed 2 billion streams on Spotify in just 96 days, making ...

Ice-T has warned rap beefs are “not smart” anymore because of the risk of retaliation from other people. The rapper and actor thinks that, although competitive attitudes have always been a part of hip ...

Rap music in 2025 was a rich mix of introspection, experimentation and cultural significance. As mainstream rap fell in and out of favor, the genre flourished with adventurous producing, serious ...

Megan Thee Stallion's post-traumatic reset, a left-field Lil Yachty collab, the raunchy return of cupcaKKe: June 28 delivered a truckload of major albums, and a portrait of modern rap's main tension.

Born Julien Mari in Marseille, Jul is far more than a hitmaker—he is one of the most influential and polarizing figures in contemporary European hip-hop. Emerging from the streets of southern France, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Back in 2012, Complex published a list of “Things Rap Fans Think But Won’t Say.” That piece mixed banal opinions (“If you don’t ...

Kendrick Lamar is no stranger to historic milestones, but his latest achievement has firmly placed him in the pantheon of modern music icons. His chart-topping diss track, Not Like Us, has officially ...

new video loaded: Playboi Carti: Modern Rap in a Nutshell transcript The Atlanta rapper’s surprise hit “Evil J0rdan” tells us a lot about what’s happening in hip-hop right now, our critic argues in ...

The long-running debate over Hip-Hop and Rap continues to shape global music culture, yet many listeners still struggle to understand the true difference between the two. The world of music is often ...

Hip-hop is in a complicated place right now. It’s not the dominant force it once was, but it remains the engine of popular music, with flashier, more global genres borrowing its strategies, sounds, ...