Enjoy this week's list, featuring new songs from Mac Miller ("5 Dollar Pony Rides"), Wiz Khalifa ("War on Drugs Freestyle"), Rod Wave ("Westside Connection") and more. See you next week.

Hip-hop may have begun in the Bronx, but over the last 50 years Connecticut has developed its own vibrant artistic and ...

As tends to happen when a young person starts getting motion in the rap world, Drake reportedly followed Plaqueboymax over the weekend after shouting him out during his own livestream with Adin Ross.

Staff writer Dylan Paradise reviews Kendrick Lamar’s extremely successful, newest album, “GNX,” which was filled with quality ...

Vince Staples gets deeply personal on Dark Times, his most introspective album since 2015’s Summertime ’06. With a slower, ...

Senegalese Canadian rapper Sarahmée's single "Ayoye" is packed with explosive energy and boisterous bars, as she melds ...

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 ...

Eminem joins Snoop Dogg and 50 Cent on "Guns N Smoke," which debuts at No. 4 on Billboard's R&B/Hip-Hop Digital Song Sales ...

New York City is where it all began. The birthplace of Hip Hop and home to some ... as halfway crooks,” the song became a rallying cry for authenticity in the rap game. Mobb Deep’s vivid ...

Chicago rapper Lupe Fiasco will serve as a visiting professor at Johns Hopkins University's Peabody Institute to teach a rap ...

On this day 45 years ago, “Rapper’s Delight” by the Sugarhill Gang became Hip-Hop’s first-ever Top 40 hit, marking a transformative moment in music history. Released in August 1979 by the Englewood, ...

The year in hip-hop saw the ... SahBabii contributed new sounds to the rap zeitgeist, making this year one of the most dynamic years in recent memory. These are the songs that defined hip-hop ...