In our time, it's easy to shut your mind, driven by fear or misinformation. This year, NPR Music's pop critic found the ...

In a year when hip-hop was frequently absent from the pop charts, NPR's music critic found that looking in darker corners ...

We’re at the end of yet another year where commentators and fans speculated on the health of the rap world. In October, it was reported that, for the first time in 35 years, there were no rap songs in ...

Sleep Token have beaten the likes of Drake, Lady Gaga and Sabrina Carpenter to The New York Times' Best Song of 2025. The ...

A Sleep Token song is No. 1 on The New York Times ' Best Songs of 2025 List. The publication shared the list earlier this ...

Top5, the rapper who was attacked at Drake’s Wireless London takeover, has turned against his biggest supporter, reposting ...

As we prepare to enter 2026, Okayplayer wraps up our 2025 with a list of the 25 songs that defined the year — a soundtrack of ...

Spotify Wrapped 2025 broke its previously held record, drawing 250 million engagements in less than three days.

The year’s best albums include ambitious pop from Rosalía and Addison Rae, inventive rap from Playboi Carti and Bruiser Wolf, ...

A huge, gloriously silly and brutally effective amalgam of abandoned styles ripe for reinvigorating — rap-metal, dream-prog, ...

The Kalamazoo rapper and sound engineer worked with two third-grade classes this week, recording dozens of students and ...

Spotify Wrapped season hits everyone differently. Some people open it immediately, proudly ready to defend their music taste.