Last week, 21 Savage took to X and called for reconciliation between Young Thug and Gunna, two titans of Atlanta rap who’d fallen out over the belief that Gunna’s plea in the YSL trial amounted to ...

Eminem, JAY-Z, and Twista have all earned Guinness World Records for lyrical speed, album sales, and endurance. Cardi B and Jeezy used technology and orchestration to create record-setting moments in ...

Hip-hop has officially exited the upper echelon of the Billboard Hot 100 chart for the first time in more than three decades. The top 40 of the iconic chart currently contains zero rap songs, marking ...

Famed designer Virgil Abloh, who tragically passed away at the age of 41 on November 28, 2021, said music was "his only peace of mind." In 2016, he told The Guardian, "When the phone is off, I play my ...

On this day in 1996, Nas dropped one of the most defining singles of his career — If I Ruled The World (Imagine That) featuring the incomparable Lauryn Hill. Released under Columbia Records, the track ...

Today, the hip hop world celebrates the 60th birthday of Dana Dane, one of Brooklyn’s most influential MCs and a true pioneer of storytelling rap. Born Dana McLeese, the rapper rose to prominence in ...

For the first edition of OK1st, Okayplayer caught up with multiple artists about the first dates they ever went on. 2 days ago “I think what we’re going to see are more people taking franchises and ...

It was the best of hip-hop times. It was the worst of hip-hop times. Ha! 2025 was a rollercoaster of rap music’s highs and lows. The duality was so real. I can’t recall a year with such a wide array ...

Part II of The Seven Wonders of the Hip-Hop World highlights seven groundbreaking albums that reshaped rap from the 1990s through the 2010s. In part deux of my Seven Wonders of the Hip-Hop World, I ...