Below, Billboard’s hip-hop braintrust ranked the 50 greatest hip-hop album covers of all-time, spanning from from the genre’s earliest days, to some of the new generation’s most daring stars. Take a ...

Today’s rap landscape wouldn’t have been possible without the pioneering role of women MCs. In an era when the field was predominantly male in the ’70s and ’80s, these fearless wordsmiths, including ...

Cube parlayed his fame as a male rapper into a series of major roles on the silver screen. Not only did he break barriers in the realm of male rap, he also showed that you don’t have to be a rail-thin ...

Kendrick Lamar went into the 2025 Grammys with five nominations for "Not Like Us" and ended up winning them all. The song has ...

Kendrick Lamar is the overwhelming favorite, but the remaining contenders — Tyler, the Creator, Clipse, GloRilla, and JID — ...

Over the past few years, Lil Wayne has spent a lot of time thinking about who he considers to be the top five rappers of all time. In 2020, the list featured Jay-Z, Notorious B.I.G., Noreaga, Cam’ron, ...

The FADER rounded up the best rap songs of November 2025 with selections from Ice Spice, Fly Anakin, RRoxket, Chow Lee, ...

Billboard has concluded that Nicki Minaj is the best female rapper of all-time. Minaj became the first female rapper to have more than 100 Billboard Hot 100 hits when she achieved the feat in 2018l ...

Kenyan rappers have come a long way since the days of Kalamashaka. The trio are considered the godfathers of rap music in Kenya, setting the foundation on which other rappers have built their career.