Select your local guide to Rap & Hip Hop below, or scroll down for a selection of events from across the UK ...

Select your local guide to Rap & Hip Hop below, or scroll down for a selection of events from across the UK ...

THE WEEK’S MOST POPULAR CURRENT R&B/HIP-HOP SONGS ACROSS ALL GENRES, RANKED BY STREAMING ACTIVITY DATA BY ONLINE MUSIC SOURCES TRACKED BY LUMINATE, RADIO AIRPLAY AUDIENCE IMPRESSIONS AS MEASURED ...

THE WEEK'S MOST POPULAR R&B/HIP-HOP ALBUMS, BASED ON MULTIMETRIC CONSUMPTION, BLENDING TRADITIONAL ALBUM SALES, STREAMING-EQUIVALENT ALBUMS AND TRACK-EQUIVALENT ALBUMS, AS COMPILED BY LUMINATE.

This is despite much of the record being a deliberate affront to American hip-hop conventions ... and execution as is was on Maxinquaye, a true 90s classic.

Compiled by the Official Charts Company, the UK's biggest Hip Hop and R&B songs of the week, based on sales of downloads, CDs, vinyl and other formats, across a seven day period.

The Best New Hip-Hop This Week includes albums, videos, and songs from Drake, PartyNextDoor, and Cash Cobain. Ah, Valentine’s Day. A day for romance — or, if you’re a rapper, for flying in ...

1Xtra re-lives the most memorable tracks from the 90s, 00 and 10s from hip-hop, R&B, dancehall, garage and more! Press play and reminisce to when you first heard these tunes!

Few artists embody Hip-Hop’s resilience quite like Xzibit. Since his emergence on Loud Records in the late ’90s, the West Coast veteran has weathered seismic shifts in the music industry.