His new project with Partynextdoor is a perfectly-fine heat check, but demonstrates that Drizzy Drake is very much alive-and that he might be able to fully bounce back with a strong solo album before long.

If there's one thing K Dot knows how to do, it's make the absolute most of a high-profile TV moment, whether it's a performance slot on the Grammys or the biggest event in sports.

A viral Twitter joke may have birthed the year’s first genuine heater.

Beyoncé may not revisit the less-flashy side of the complex ‘Cowboy Carter’ during her Texas-sized Christmas Day halftime-show performance-but if it's been a while since you've run back the ballads, maybe you should.

While we’d certainly take a second project if the rumors are true, the idea that ‘GNX’ is too slight on its own is a misguided one.

First impressions of Tyler’s angstier-than-expected new album.

A blue-ribbon panel of writers, broadcasters, MCs, and execs looks back on a wild year in hip-hop-and prognosticates on who's up next.

The Philly rapper is more known for his tweets and IG freestyles these days, but his new loosies prove he still has the spark that made him one of the 2010s’ most crucial artists.

K. Dot’s halftime-show booking came thanks in part to the NFL’s partnership with the Roc Nation founder-and has heated up long-standing issues between Jay and fellow artists like Lil Wayne, Drake, and Nicki Minaj.

In GQ’s October cover story, the artist talks business, legacy, art, and family: “It’s not about being perfect. It’s about being revolutionary.”

A former petty king and punchline machine leans into honesty and introspection on his new solo album.

The "We Don't Trust You" team hits the stage at Barclays, and the deep cuts ring out just as loud as the hits.

On his new album "Bando Stone & the New World," Glover shows off a wide array of styles, but he’s strongest when he just lets his falsetto cook.

The Houston rapper’s new album, ‘Hardstone Psycho,’ a hard pivot into bike life, has already become his highest-selling project to date.

King Kendrick assembles the West Coast Avengers for a “Not Like Us” victory lap in Inglewood.

Someone go hand him a Grammy right now!

The streaming sensation reveals his real voice, answers the industry-plant allegations, and talks Ye’s and Drake’s endorsements in his exclusive first profile.

Today if you're the most important new voice in Afrobeats, you may be the most important new voice in global music, period. Meet the current title-holder: Asake.

The NSYNC reunion will make headlines, but as usual, it's Timberlake and Timbaland for the win.

On an album full of amazing moments, a halfway Black Hippy reunion is one of the best.

The rapper turned auteur explains how he ended up playing a character called “Vince Staples” on 'The Vince Staples Show.'

In his first in-depth interview since Sunday night, the three-time winner also reacts to comments from Drake, Jay-Z and Kai Cenat and Adin Ross.

Talking life and music with the Producer of the Year Grammy nominee behind “N-ggas in Paris,” “Sicko Mode” and a remarkable six-album run with Nas.

The ultra-influential, typically-elusive Whole Lotta Red rapper has resurfaced, dropping an algorithm-defying breadcrumb-trail of new music on YouTube and Instagram.

At an age when many rappers start running out of gas, the man born Michael Render formed Run the Jewels with El-P and became an unlikely hip-hop superhero. With this year's Michael, his first solo album in over a decade, he tapped back into his ATLien roots with songs steeped in gospel and Southern soul. “I wanted to prove, like Serena Williams, I'm good in doubles or singles,” he says. “I came for the trophy.”

After an introspective hero's journey, the former Odd Future rapper returns to music, having changed more than just his name.

Please allow the Migos rapper to formally reintroduce himself as, 10 years into his career, he bets it all on a solo breakout.

It might not be the the sound he's best known for, but the Lord of the Rage has an estimable R&B track record, too.

For at least 4 minutes and 58 seconds, it’s 2011 again.

After years of synth-heavy jams, the OVO duo behind Drake's “Hold On, We're Going Home" touch grass and get ethereal.

All hail the return of Shaq Diesel.

Scoring his first No. 1 song with Drake’s “First Person Shooter” is the perfect cap to the crazy year-long run Cole has been on-and the perfect springboard for him to shift into Album Mode.

A conversation with Jay-Z and a desire to see R&B return to its essence inspired the Bad Boy Records founder to assemble an Avengers roster of singers for his excellent new album 'Off the Grid.'

The singer and rapper beloved by Drake and Travis Scott released his debut 'How Do You Sleep at Night?'-one of the strangest, most divisive albums of the summer. Despite it all, Teezo is still brimming with childlike optimism-and is increasingly confident in who he is.

"Pink Tape" is the rapper’s most experimental full-length yet-and the first rap album to reach No. 1 this year.

From 2009’s ‘The Kendrick Lamar EP’ to 2022’s ‘Mr. Morale & The Big Steppers,’ which is Kendrick Lamar’s best project? We ranked them all from worst to best.