Will Smith has done just about every kind of press junket and media appearance imaginable, but last month he made one of the odder stops in his career. As part of the push for Based on a True Story, ...

In Hip Hop, artists are often the face of the movement, but behind many great rappers is a great manager who helped make the impossible happen. Managers are the strategic minds driving the machine by ...

TikTok has become a career-launching machine for hip-hop artists, reshaping how songs go viral and how fans discover new talent. Breaking into the music business before TikTok traditionally required ...

This may be an extremely unpopular opinion, but I’ll just go out on a limb and say it: I’ve always been a fan of Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson. Now that that is out in the open, let me tell you why. First, ...

Billboard crowns Cardi B #1 on their hottest female rap artists of 2025 list beating out a number of other acts. Cardi B‘s dominance of Billboard’s new female rap ranking proves women now control ...

Numbers don’t lie. People do, but numbers are speakers of truth. So when Billboard officially ranked Drake as the top R&B/Hip-Hop artist of the 21st century, cementing his dominance over the past two ...

A new wave of artists is transcending traditional notions of Christian music, drawing young global audiences to faith-based rap, Afrobeats and R&B. Often boosted by social media, many of them got ...

A Tribe Called Quest had the vision for “The Low End Theory.” The engineer Bob Power helped piece it together.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Despite a late start — he didn’t reach Billboard’s charts until 2009 — Drake sprinted to the lead through a prolific schedule of ...