Jeezy has set the Guinness World Record for the largest orchestra performance in a hip hop concert at his Las Vegas Residency ...

Gucci Mane is the focus of a new documentary that revisits the disputed origins of Trap music and his former group S.Y.S.

On August 10, the Trap Music Museum officially celebrated its fifth anniversary by collaborating with Tiny Doors ATL for an event to highlight the intersection of music and culture. The event focused ...

With Fresh Picks, Billboard aims to highlight some of the best and most interesting new sounds across R&B and hip-hop — from ...

From block parties to Billboard charts, hip hop has never been one thing. This guide breaks down the major styles from old school pioneers and G-Funk grooves to modern-day drill, trap, and grime. A ...

Singer-songwriter Graham Barham discusses how Nashville's pop-aimed country interests are bridging country music, hip-hop culture.

Jeezy has spent much of 2025 celebrating the 20th anniversary of his landmark debut album, “Let’s Get It: Thug Motivation 101.” Now he’s put himself in the history books for it.

Pianist and keyboardist Robert Glasper is a man of many hats. When he appears at Wolf Trap on Sept. 9, however, he’ll be wearing only one. “Well, I’m marking the 50th anniversary of hip-hop, so I’m ...

“Rapper’s Delight” will always be considered the song that introduced hip-hop to the masses. The Sugarhill Gang classic with its tongue-twisting opening – “I said a-hip, hop, the hippie, the hippie to ...

Despite how they’ve at times been ideologically pitted against one another, country music and hip-hop are often compared as the two forms of pop music that speak most directly to the everyday problems ...

Last February, Jeezy made his NPR Tiny Desk debut backed by a full band. "I'm gonna take y'all on a journey so y'all can see ...