It’s New Year’s Eve—a time to reflect on the past year and look ahead at what 2020 has to offer. A day like this requires a perfect soundtrack, so whether you’re looking for a pre-game playlist or ...

The following list, sorted alphabetically, includes rap songs found on Pitchfork’s main year-end tally as well as an additional 16 tracks that did not make that list but are still very much worth your ...

At the end of 2019, rap is the most popular form of music in America, and maybe in the entire world. We know this. The data bears it out. But one thing that the data doesn’t quite show is us that rap, ...

The 2019 BET Hip Hop Awards, the networks annual celebration of all things Hip-Hop took place this past weekend, but we finally got to see the fruit of the network’s labor. The show, hosted by Lil ...

Many have viewed 2019 as a slow year for hip-hop because a lot of the genre’s biggest, most trusted heavy-hitters didn’t release albums—or at least not good ones (looking at you, Kanye and Chance The ...

In the last decade, blogs lost their sway and social media chipped away at regional walls, allowing rap music to stretch and unhinge. Language loosened, flows got weirder. Future and Young Thug ...

To be clear, Skillz is who originated and took ownership of the yearly rap up. That didn’t stop Uncle Murda from hijacking that concept a handful of years ago, and true to form the Brooklyn rapper’s ...