Check out the hip-hop and R&B highlights from the 2025 Grammy Awards. Tetris Kelly: Genre icons, first-time nominees, and ...

Chris Brown scores a historic milestone on Billboard’s R&B/Hip-Hop Airplay chart, becoming the second artist to reach 100 cumulative weeks at No. 1 on the radio ranking, across 11 No. 1 songs in his ...

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

Rapper Doechii won best rap album at Sunday's Grammy Awards, becoming the third woman in the award show's history to claim ...

Since Roc Nation’s partnership with the N.F.L., hip-hop stars like Snoop Dogg and Kendrick Lamar have been center stage at ...

Murder Inc co-founder Irv Gotti, who built a hip-hop empire that produced some of the biggest rap and R&B albums around the ...

A founder of Murder Inc. Records, he helped launch the careers of Ja Rule and Ashanti and was credited as a producer on 28 ...

Irv Gotti rose to prominence working with rap artists who went on to become major stars in the late 1990s and early 2000s ...

The rapper's 2024 mixtape "Alligator Bites Never Heal," the project that won her best rap album, is a lyrical exhibition that is equal parts contemporary R&B ("Slide"), introspective "real hip-hop ...

The Weeknd brings both The Highlights and After Hours back to the same chart in the U.K., just days before Hurry Up Tomorrow ...

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Def Jam said in its statement that Gotti and Murder Inc. “reshaped the soundscape of hip-hop and R&B.” And Ja Rule wrote, simply, “Love you… 💔 🕊️.” Lyor Cohen added in a ...