We've picked the 25 rap albums from this year that we loved the most--some which appeared on the main BV list, most of which did not--and this list ranges from the '90s-style boom bap revival and ...

Underground Rap Has a Cornball Crisis. Kieran Press-Reynolds. Wed, June 4, 2025 at 1:00 PM UTC. 7 min read. Graphic by Chris Panicker. The 808s are being tortured.

Here are the best new rap songs from May 2025 including a Playboi Carti and NBA Youngboy collab, AZ Chike's "Game Time," Latto's "Somebody," and more.

The beef between Kendrick Lamar and Drake absorbed a great deal of oxygen this year, and from a distance it might appear that all the stakes for hip-hop in 2024 boiled down to this war of titans ...

Photo taken in 2012 of 7th Heaven marquee, many local hip -hop artists are sad to hear that it’s closing after 50 years remembering when this was the only music store in town selling their music ...