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A hip-hop track aimed at retail giant Target has hit number one on the Billboard charts in the genre, as the campaign to boycott the company continues. Pro-Trump rappers Jimmy Levy and Forgiato Blow ...

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While everyone was busy talking about celebrity beef and courtroom drama, some of the most innovative rap albums of 2024 were quietly making history. These aren’t just good albums – they’re ...

Forgiato Blow and Jimmy Levy rapped out a ditty called “Boycott Target,” Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene tweeted it out, and just a couple days later, it was hitting high-on-the-list status on iTunes and ...

In modern music, it feels like there’s a new single taking off every few weeks, especially from younger artists who came up in the streaming era. Hit singles during the advent of streaming, YouTube ...

Last month, we launched the Pitchfork Rap Readers’ Poll, in which we asked you to rank your favorite rap albums of all time. Thousands of you did. Below, find those results, and compare them to our ...

It may be a reckless exercise to try and list 25 rap albums memorable for the controversy they induced. Since the mid-Eighties, after the genre slowly evolved from a mostly 12-inch medium to one where ...

Although Hip-Hop is only around 50 years old, it’s already the most popular genre in the country. Throughout its history, it continues to change and involve as new artists and sounds are introduced.