From Lil Uzi Vert to Run The Jewels to Freddie Gibbs, see who made Billboard's best rap albums list of 2020. By Billboard Staff This year, the music industry felt the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic.

When the world stopped, rap kept going. Nothing—not the pandemic, not state-imposed curfews, not widespread malaise or massive social upheavals— could slow down its lightspeed evolution, from Flint to ...

From Roddy Ricch to Future to Megan Thee Stallion, check out Billboard's best rap songs of 2020. By Billboard Staff This year, hip-hop checked off all the boxes in the songs department. If you needed ...

You know the drill: The big line is coming up, so the DJ turns down the volume, and the whole crowd yells it. That's what's supposed to happen. That's not what happened in 2020. Rap music is communal ...

There is no doubt that 2019 was packed with a plethora of strong rap releases—especially from some of the game’s most promising newcomers. Artists like 2019 XXL Freshman DaBaby and Megan Thee Stallion ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I like to cover music, celebrities, and Black culture. This article is more than 5 years old. LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA - JANUARY 26 ...

21 Savage and J. Cole add a big win to their awards show resumes. On Sunday (Jan. 26), 21 and J. Cole won the gramophone for Best Rap Song at the 2020 Grammy Awards, which are taking place at Staples ...

“We’re culture workers. Right now, especially, we’re at war.” I’m talking to Rory Allen Phillip Ferreira on May 20, five days before George Floyd is murdered by the Minneapolis police, an event that ...

In familial terms, when it comes to Michigan’s rap scene, Detroit is the older sibling with trophies on the shelf, and Flint is the step-sibling who rips the heads off Barbie dolls, feeds junk food to ...

Drake has signed an exclusive multi-year deal with Caffeine, a budding broadcasting company that hopes to rival Amazon’s Twitch and Google’s YouTube. Caffeine, whose name is inspired by the idea of ...