Every Friday, pop critics for The New York Times weigh in on the week’s most notable new tracks. Listen to the Playlist on Spotify here (or find our profile: nytimes) and at Apple Music here, and sign ...

Doechii checks off a career milestone in early 2025 on Billboard's Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart as her Alligator Bites Never ...

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2024 has been a fun ride for hip-hop ... they were at the top of the game, and one diss track had the whole world talking. Let's take a look back at some of the hip-hop songs we loved this ...

See our list of the five best albums and songs of 2024 (plus some honorable mentions) below. Christmas came early for Kendrick Lamar fans this year when the rapper surprise-released his latest ...

(Further, for much of the Hot 100’s history, holiday songs were not eligible to make the list, appearing instead on seasonal surveys.) As for the titles of the 16 top 10 Hot 100 holiday entries ...

It's no exaggeration to call 2005 a fascinating one on the Official Singles Chart, as this guide to 100 songs turning 20 next ... singles – enough to put him top of the all-time list to this ...

This week, we tackled the very best K-pop songs of 2024, and today we’ve assembled a comprehensive list of, what we believe to be, the strongest rap albums from 2024. Whether it was the surprise ...

With so many constant releases in Latin music, it can sometimes feel hard to keep up — but lots of songs rose from the din and stood out this year. Some of the best ones were new inventions ...

The year is at an end, and that means one thing: totting up the best songs of ... explosive spring of rap beef, nothing came close to “Not Like Us”. Like the other songs, it's full of dark ...

And over the course of rap music history, there have been some truly incredible features on songs. When people talk about the greatest feature verses on a rap song ever, this one always comes up.

Week in and week out, there are plenty of brand-new rap songs ... the latest and greatest tracks. You'll always have somewhere to turn to each week, being sure to find some songs you'll dig.