Shabba Ranks has three Top Ten charted singles, House Call with Maxi Priest (#4 in 1991), Slow and Sexy with Johnny Gill (#4 ...

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 ...

After each individually holding the record, Kendrick Lamar and SZA combine forces to claim the longest-running No. 1 on ...

Pop music may have been for the masses, but the strongest artists used their songs as a means of resistance against those keeping them down.

On the R&B/Hip Hop Digital Song Sales chart, the song flies in at #8. Meanwhile, on Rhythmic Top 40, the song remains at #20, while on the Hot 100 it parachutes from #91 to #65 in its second week.

Jon Pareles After the conclusion (?) of his war of words with Kendrick Lamar, Drake briefly hibernated, then re-emerged with one of his loosest projects, “Some Sexy Songs 4 U,” with longtime ...

“Welcome back hip-hop, I saved your life,” he raps on Tha Carter 3’s “Dr. Carter.” Advertisement Lil Wayne’s prime heading into C3 circa ‘07-’08 was something you had to see to ...

After each individually holding the record, Kendrick Lamar and SZA combine forces to claim the longest-running No. 1 on Billboard’s Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart as their collaboration “Luther ...

Lewis was a vocalist and keyboardist for Atlantic Starr, which is best known for its popular slow dance and wedding song, ...

It took the bandleader, who died Monday, just a few years beginning in the late 1960s to write a new language of rock, soul and pop.

SZA’s ‘SOS’ Breaks Michael Jackson’s Record for Most Weeks at No. 1 on Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums. The blockbuster has yet to leave the weekly top 10 after two-and-a-half years since its release.

Jim Jones made the bold declaration that he had a better career and is more relevant in the hip-hop game than legendary emcee ...