South Facing Festival will host an all-day hip-hop event at Crystal Palace Park on August 15, 2025, featuring Busta Rhymes, ...

Billboard charting and emerging hitmaking Texas rapper That Mexican OT headlined at Nashville's Skydeck on Broadway.

Here’s the seven inductees in the main category, ranked from least- to most-deserving of one of music’s highest honors.

OutKast's induction into the 2025 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame celebrates a significant achievement for hip hop and Atlanta's music scene.

Did your relationship survive cheating? Lawyers could look for surprising clues as they pick a jury in Sean "Diddy" Combs' sex-trafficking trial.

For more than two decades, Sean “Diddy” Combs was one of one of hip-hop's most opportunistic entrepreneurs, spinning his hitmaking talents into a broad business empire that included a record label, a ...

The emotional centerpiece of the Memphis Rap OGz set at RiverBeat Music Festival came with a tribute to the late Gangsta Boo.

The Best New Hip-Hop This Week includes albums, videos, and songs from Aminé, Key Glock, and Quavo. Even light weeks like ...

This week, Quavo communes with his late Migos partner Takeoff, Eric Church reanimates a hero from country music’s past, and Rico Nasty comes through with a banger from her forthcoming album. Plus new ...

Week in and week out, there are plenty of brand-new rap songs, no matter the time of year. It can be really difficult to stay aware of what's out and also what's hot, so XXL decided to make things ...

In the latest edition of his indie rap column No Filler, Andre Gee writes about new records from Brian Ennals and Infinity Knives,Ché Noir, and Lord Sko ...

Kendrick Lamar, Doechii, Playboi Carti, Drake, and The Alchemist stand as Hip-Hop’s dominant forces, pushing the culture’s ...