Here are three takeaways from Hit Songs Deconstructed’s latest in-depth research. Hip-hop/rap reigned as the most common primary genre in the Hot 100’s top 10 throughout 2024, contributing to ...

As music critic Nelson George wrote, the song was a springboard ... genre-hopping side of hip-hop culture. On top of the memorable Ballin' Jack sample, the song includes pieces of Bette ...

Several of the most lauded hip-hop songs in music history have achieved diamond status—10 million sold or more—according to the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA). For these ...

From Azealia Banks to Ol' Dirty Bastard and more, here are 21 great hip-hop songs with house music samples you should know, ...

That was 30 years ago, and many of those songs that were ... I can’t think of a hip-hop show I’d be more worried about attending in the mid-90s based on the music video alone.

Cole on my albums list. You got a problem with that? Turn that frown upside down and turn the music up. Here’s the best hip-hop songs and albums of 2024, so far. Three decades since working ...

For starters, we agonized over how to group together 50 songs from over the decades ... Gang’s “Rapper’s Delight” as Hip-Hop’s first music single, while others would say The Fatback ...

Hip-hop has ... budgets for music videos, he’s actually investing in local journalism and in non-profits that actually promote real change in the lives of his neighbors. In this song, over ...

One thing is certain at the top of every new year ... To help reflect on the music that served as the soundtrack of 2002, here are 22 of the best hip-hop songs turning 20 this year.