Editors’ Note: This guest column by former Luke Cage showrunner and Creed II writer Cheo Hodari Coker is part of Deadline’s series commemorating the 50th anniversary of Hip-Hop on August 11.

Several of the most lauded hip-hop songs in music history have achieved diamond status—10 million sold or more—according to the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA). For these ...

Historically forward-thinking when it comes to digital platforms, hip-hop artists have often seemed ... A recent edition of his Song Wars series (think American Idol for the SoundCloud set ...

Country rapper and singer Shaboozey has plenty of reasons to celebrate right now. After Beyoncé included him as a guest artist on two songs from her album Cowboy Carter earlier this year, he used ...

"I still can't believe I'm going out of this world with NASA through the Deep Space Network when "The Rain" (Supa Dupa Fly) becomes the first ever hip-hop song to transmit to space," gushed the ...

On Thursday (April 17), he unveiled a previously unheard song called "Blind Spot" off his lost hip-hop-inspired album Streets of Philadelphia Sessions. These songs were recorded alongside his ...

It has now reportedly become the fastest hip-hop song in history to reach 300 million Spotify streams. Moreover, this came as a result of doing so, in 35 days. Furthermore, Kendrick Lamar also has ...

Luckily Hustle & Flow does. Three 6 Mafia's song "It's Hard out Here for a Pimp" became just the second hip-hop song to win the Oscar for Best Song and it's since gone on to become a big part of ...

This Hip-Hop song is a personal window into the Wu-Tang veteran’s life and definitely one of his most vulnerable pieces, and man, the chorus still hits different nearly 30 years later.

In 2017, hip-hop became the most consumed genre in the US, and it hasn't shown any signs of slowing down. Now that we're just over the halfway mark into the 2020s, hip-hop continues to dominate ...