Billboard spoke with esteemed cultural critics to break down the complex dynamic between Black hip-hop (and hip-hop-adjacent) artists and Americana iconography. By Kyle Denis As Democrats rally around ...

Here below, we wanted to highlight three hip-hop acts that took home Grammy Awards in 1997. At a real turning point in music and popular culture, these were the people helping to make a shift. Indeed, ...

Hip Hop has always been bigger than one sound, one coast, or one kind of story. Across generations, Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander artists have shown up as DJs, battle rappers, ...

Over 50 years after hip-hop was born on Aug. 11, 1973, at a party spun by DJ Kool Herc in the basement of an apartment in The Bronx, no one predicted it would be the most influential and dominant ...

It's been 22 years since Slim Shady took home his first AMA. By Michael Saponara Eminem has won favorite male hip-hop artist at the 2025 American Music Awards. Twenty-two years after taking home his ...

Monaleo officially had a breakout year after winning Breakthrough Hip-Hop Artist at the 2026 American Music Awards, on Monday night. The Houston rapper continued building major momentum throughout ...

The epic beef between rappers Kendrick Lamar and Drake has once again demonstrated the linguistic acrobatics of rap culture. The feud has seen both artists release multiple tracks where they lyrically ...

Hip hop has never been just one thing. It started with block parties and breakbeats, but over time, it grew into a mix of styles that each reflect different places, stories, and sounds. From the early ...

(CNN) — Osmic Menoe was a young kid in South Africa when he first fell in love with hip-hop culture during the late 1980s, at the height of the country’s anti-apartheid movement. But like so many, at ...

Nipsey Hussle's "All Money In A$I" necklace is displayed during a press preview on May 8, 2024, in New York for "Ice Cold: An Exhibition of Hip-Hop Jewelry" at the ...