Japan boasts the second-largest music market in the world, valued at more than $2 billion. Even in a booming industry crowded ...

Bill doubled down on his longstanding appreciation of that work by establishing the Eyejammie Fine Arts Gallery devoted to ...

In “Straight Loops, Light & Soul,” a project evoking Roy DeCarava’s Harlem jazz pictures and the music of J Dilla, Williams ...

The Art of Hip Hop brings the Smithsonian’s Eyejammie Hip-Hop Photo Collection to Miami, in partnership with Monster Energy. This photo collection was created during the 80s, when Bill Adler was the ...

Blending martial arts with hip hop dancing, 10-year-old Song Haoming and 12-year-old Fu Junxi made it into Juste Debout’s 2025 semi-finals, setting a record for Chinese participants in the hip hop ...

The Best New Hip-Hop This Week includes albums, videos, and songs from Doechii, Gelo, and Gunna. Although Doechii’s re-released fan favorite, “Anxiety,” isn’t technically a new song ...

Kendrick Lamar’s set at the Apple Music Super Bowl LIX Halftime Show was the culmination of a historic year—one where he not only cemented his dominance in hip-hop but also reshaped the ...

Week in and week out, there are plenty of brand-new rap songs, no matter the time of year. It can be really difficult to stay aware of what's out and also what's hot, so XXL decided to make things ...

With the loss of multi-talented instrumentalist Roy Ayers, who died on Wednesday at the age of 84, the hip-hop world is honoring one of its greatest inspirations and sample sources. Hip-hop ...

By Clay Risen Angie Stone, a hip-hop pioneer in the late 1970s with the Sequence, one of the first all-female rap groups, who later switched gears as a solo R&B star with hits like “No More Rain ...

Although most music fans are well aware of Angie Stone’s singing career, her roots in Hip-Hop run deep, and here’s a look at those connections. RELATED CONTENT: Angie Stone, Grammy-Nominated ...

The Best New Hip-Hop This Week includes albums, videos, and songs from IDK, Reason, and TiaCorine. The avalanche of new releases in hip-hop continued this week, albeit at a slightly slower rate ...