Award-winning rapper Odumodublvck is back with a new single where he showcases his melody molding skills. Afrobeats icon Wande Coal rolls back the years with a sensual love rhythm featuring the ...

A new wave of Christian artists from various backgrounds is drawing young audiences to faith-based rap, Afrobeats and R&B.

Have you listened to Chat Pile’s Cool World lately? I have, and I can’t help but notice it feels more relevant than ever. I ...

Through the Maithili speech, Balen showed how he can instrumentalise his identity to be politically profitable.

Rapping is built on a set of skills that closely resemble those required in politics: timing, improvisation, argumentation and rhetoric, audience awareness, and sarcasm. A rapper must know when to ...

What's going on with rap? After celebrating 50 years of legacy in 2023 with marquee moments like the Hip Hop 50 multi-headliner concert at Yankee Stadium, plus Kendrick Lamar's historic run – capped ...

Hip-hop has been super volatile over the last couple of years. Given all the questions swirling around the genre during its 50th decade—who are the new stars? Where are the hit records? Is hip-hop on ...

If you’ve already played out all the best albums of 2025 and you’re ready to put your music listening habits in 2026 mode, you’re in luck because this year is already musically off to a good start. We ...

“‘Glow’ is about living my life with my eyes closed,” Sweet Pill vocalist Zayna Youssef says of the new single off their anticipated new album. “Realizing I may be on the way to rock bottom, I kind of ...

Hip-Hop isn’t dead. What’s dying is our willingness to protect it. As we step into a new year, the phrase “new year, new me” always makes its rounds. People hit the gym. They change their diets. They ...

I was made aware of the new 21 Savage album two weekends ago when a midsize Toyota pulled up to a Christmas tree lot pumping “Where You From,” the opening track on “What Happened to the Streets?,” now ...

Every month, The FADER's Vivian Medithi showcases all the standout rap songs from the past 30-ish days in one unranked list. Recently, Lil Uzi Vert inked a new deal with Roc Nation Distribution and ...