This story is the second installment of a three-part series discussing major changes in popular music throughout the course of 2024. Today’s story focuses on the current state of rap music. This year ...

What a difference a year makes. At the end of 2023, GloRilla, Latto and Doechii had each earned namesake notoriety and steady rotation in playlists. Repping Memphis, Atlanta and Tampa, they stood in ...

The removal of Kendrick Lamar and SZA‘s “luther” from the Billboard Hot 100 chart has reignited the heated debate of rap’s decline in 2025. The conversations are unsurprising when this is the first ...

At various points in my previous articles, I have at least pointed to the fact that I, having been born in the 2000s, had to learn about hip-hop out of order, at least compared to those who had been ...

Funk allowed Black musicians and their audiences to shapeshift and speak truth to power—even while speaking in tongues. But as Stanley Nelson and Nicole London’s documentary WE WANT THE FUNK! reveals, ...