When Bahraini rapper Flipperachi released FA9LA, it was intended as a standalone hip-hop track. Few could have predicted that the song would soon find itself at the centre of a global pop-culture ...

Drill rapper Kay Flock couldn’t have headed a ruthless crew that terrorized the Bronx with rampant gun violence because he has an “intellectual disability,” his lawyers argued — as the convicted ...

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Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani has picked a controversial rapper who did seven years in state prison for armed robbery to advise him on the criminal justice system, The Post has learned. Mysonne Linen, 49 ...

Recently, in casual conversations, I’ve been asked for my opinion about the October report that “No Rap Songs Are in the Billboard Hot 100’s Top 40 for the First Time Since 1990” more so than my ...

Love & Ponystep is a love letter to those spaces from Zelda Trixie Lulamoon, a Portland producer with the astonishing ability to crank out consistently interesting hour-and-a-half-plus albums on a ...

We should address the elephant in the room: hip-hop did not have a strong year on the charts. In fact, rap music had its worst showing in years. Back in October, it made headlines when—for the first ...

Every year, we’re told that hip-hop is in crisis. But if you ask us, it feels like there’s too much heat to keep up with. What’s lost on the chart-watchers lamenting rap’s mainstream lull is that the ...

Vets and newbies flexed their best bars in 2025. After being spoiled by a monstrous three-peat from Future, a lyrical face-off between Drake and Kendrick Lamar, and scintillating releases from Doechii ...

Drake gets around 21 Savage and often takes the posture of, I think you should know my friend here is equipped with bazookas. Photo-Illustration: Vulture; Photos: Getty Images (Astrida Valigorsky, ...

What does good rapping sound like in 2025? It depends on who you ask. It’s no secret that hip-hop is more splintered than ever, with different pockets and intersections thriving in their own ...

Dallas-Fort Worth hip-hop has become a hotspot for discovering the next superstar. With New Dallas being the talk of the city, the drill scene’s undeniable popularity and boogie music making a ...