Listen to to the best new music releases this week, featuring songs from Lil Uzi Vert, Lil Baby, A$AP Ferg, and more.

Starting in the late ’70s, hip-hop and rap ascended through popular culture, mostly in America but also in other countries. Then, in 1990, a breakthrough. Hip-hop and rap tracks began infiltrating the ...

Corrections and clarifications: A previous version of this story misstated the writers of "Ease on Down the Road." Charlie Smalls was the sole writer. Quincy Jones once said his most important ...

When Nas said “hip-hop is dead,” this certainly isn’t what he meant. Since 1990, rap music has topped the music charts as arguably the most impactful genre in the world. But for the first time in ...

For the back-to-back Billboard Hot 100 charts this year dated Oct. 25 and Nov. 1, no rap songs appeared in the top 40 — marking the first times since the Feb. 3, 1990 chart that the genre was totally ...

Coco Jones doesn’t need much to have a happy holiday as the year comes to a close. Her latest single, the semi-Christmas-themed “Skip My House,” finds the R&B star counting her blessings — and coming ...

For the first time in more than three decades, not a single rap song ranks among the 40 most popular tracks in America. Last week’s Billboard Hot 100 marked the end of a remarkable 35-year streak, ...

Whether she likes it or not, Ainsley Earhardt has earned the nickname "media's Barbie," and it's pretty easy to see why. Rupert Murdoch warns judge of Donald Trump’s ‘red herring’ Antonio Brown ...

In the early 1950s, he shifted from country music to rockabilly. Then, in 1956, he released his first hit. “Honky-Tonk Man” peaked at No. 9 on the Billboard country chart. Later, Dwight Yoakam would ...