While he spent the first half of the 2000s as one of rap’s most consistent radio hitmakers – almost like a prototype of Aubrey Graham – his albums typically came up a bit short. His skills were never in question, he just lacked the focus to create consistent projects. But in the ...
Update: Dive into the best new hip hop with our list of 2020's top rap songs. Here are the best new rappers of 2020. This 2020 rappers list features the ...
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Billboard staffers break down the top 10 best rap albums of all time, analyze Kendrick Lamar’s music video for “Not Like Us” and more!
Across the second half the 2010s, teenager Billie Eilish expanded her sphere of influence from the SoundCloud charts to Billboard’s Alternative charts, and by the time she released her massively-hyped debut, pop culture at large. Part trap without the rap, part ASMR-core whisper-pop, the ...
UK underground rap veteran Ray Vendetta has teamed up with producer Endemic Emerald to deliver one of the year’s standout Hip Hop albums from the UK. At over 50 minutes, the album might seem lengthy by today’s standards, but it never drags. Ray Vendetta, along with a talented roster ...
Texas polymath Liv.e produces, writes, and sings, and her albums revel in the exploding possibilities of an auteur in her world-building stage. Her latest,Girl in the Half Pearl, threads the needle between jazz, rap, soul, and dance music, expanding her musical purview while the lyrics ta...
Rap’s boom-bap Big Bang: On this B side to their first 12-inch (“It’s Like That” was the A), Run-DMC rhymed over a stark break stripped out of an Orange Krush song by their guitarist Davy DMX, inspiring Run’s line, “Davy cut the record down to the bone.”“Sucker MC’...
#9: Kanye West -My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy(2010) Pop rap, hip hop #10: C418 -Minecraft Volume Alpha(2011) Video game music, ambient #11: Gorillaz -Plastic Beach(2010) Electropop, art pop, hip hop #12: Radiohead -OK Computer(1997) ...
Best Rap Albums of 2002 Scarface - The Fix.© Def Jam 10. Blackalicious -Blazing Arrow The reason to root for Gift of Gab and Chief Xcel is that occasionally they show you things you didn't know were possible within the confines of hip-hop. Hardcore, grown-ass rap bathed in breezy ...