Soulja Boy has declared himself as the first rapper to automate his voice with AI, championing the tech's place in the music industry.

In a year that had no rap songs in the Billboard Hot 100’s Top 40 for the first time since 1990, rap thrived in so many other ways. This list of the 25 best rap albums of 2025 includes grand statements from young hungry rappers, long-awaited comebacks ...

Since its humble beginnings in the Bronx in 1973, hip-hop has evolved into one of the planet’s top musical genres, thanks in part to the boundary-pushing artists throughout its lifetime. Whereas before, when the music was discovered through the radio ...

Harlem rapper Max B has been released from prison after serving 16 years for his role in a fatal armed robbery. The rapper, known for popularizing the term “wavy,” was released from prison on Sunday, Nov. 9. Fellow rapper French Montana, with whom Max ...

Hip-hop has officially exited the upper echelon of the Billboard Hot 100 chart for the first time in more than three decades. The top 40 of the iconic chart currently contains zero rap songs, marking the first time this has happened since Feb. 2, 1990 ...

Hip-hop and R&B genres have been so intertwined that having a singer and rapper on one track has become a common practice. But these R&B singers thought that conquering just one genre wasn’t enough and they tried their hands at rapping. Chris Brown has ...

Rapper Pooh Shiesty, who was serving a more than five-year prison sentence for a Florida gun charge, has been released from federal prison custody, records show. The 25-year-old rapper, whose legal name is Lontrell D. Williams, pleaded guilty in January ...