The Kid Mero, Now a Morning-Radio Motormouth

The podcast star from the Bronx is taking over the marquee a.m. slot on New York’s storied hip-hop station Hot 97. We rode ...
Neon Music

When Hip-Hop Conquered Everything: 1996 Turns 30

1996 marked a turning point in hip-hop production. The boom-bap that dominated early ’90s New York started fragmenting into ...
WSB Radio

Bad Bunny could make history at the 2026 Grammys. For Latino culture, he already has

NEW YORK — The Puerto Rican superstar Bad Bunny has redefined what it means to be a global giant — and he may once again make ...
Reno Gazette-Journal

Rap, hip-hop artists in Reno-Tahoe, now through March

Legends of rap and hip-hop, as well as some up-and-coming artists, are heading to Reno-Tahoe stages to kick off 2026 — including Talib Kweli, Mickey Avalon and a ...
The Daily Beast

Fox News Anchor Performs Cringe Rap For Trump’s Top Goons

A Fox News anchor proudly participated in a bizarre yearly humiliation ritual of performing a rap song in front of his colleagues. Bret Baier, host of Fox News’ Special Report, performed a slowed-down ...
The Source Magazine

Ebro In The Morning Ends Its Run at Hot 97 After More Than a Decade

The long running New York radio staple Ebro In The Morning has officially come to an end at MediaCo Hip Hop Hot 97 WQHT. The morning show featured Ebro Darden, Peter Rosenberg, and Laura Stylez and ...
The Source Magazine

Today in Hip-Hop History: LL Cool J Dropped His Debut Album ‘Radio’ 39 Years Ago

On this date in the year 1985, a young Queens emcee named James Todd Smith, known to the world as LL Cool J, released his first full length album on Def Jam Records. Produced primarily by Rick Rubin, ...
Detroit Free Press

Darren Revell's Big Sonic Heaven to play on radio for first time in more than 20 years

Iconic Detroit-born radio show Big Sonic Heaven is returning to the radio on Sunday, Nov. 16 for the first time in more than 20 years. The shoegaze, trip-hop, and atmospheric rock show created and ...
The Fader

No rap songs are on the Billboard Top 40 for the first time in 35 years

For the first time since 1990, there are no rap songs in the top 40 of Billboard's Hot 100 chart. Kendrick Lamar and SZA's hit "luther," which spent 13 weeks at No. 1, left this week's most recent ...
Rolling Stone

If You Need AI to Hear the ‘Soul’ in Rap, You Were Never Listening

Generative artificial intelligence is seeping deeper into our cultural fabric by the day. In just two years, AI videos of Will Smith eating spaghetti have evolved from poorly developed nightmare fuel ...
Pitchfork

The 100 Best Rap Albums of All Time

If you’re within a certain age bracket, you’ll remember the news being delivered with grave certainty: The iPod is going to end the album as we know it. Yet for as many 99-cent songs as were purchased ...
Stereogum

Scooby-Doo Dropped An Album Of Lofi Hip-Hop Radio Beats To Relax/Study To

It's not entirely clear how this happened, but the beloved mystery-solving cartoon dog Scooby-Doo has now entered the lofi chill-beats music genre that populates so many Spotify playlists. WaterTower ...