Future's The Real Me just gave him his 12th No. 1 album, passing Eminem for all-time chart history, even as critics split down the middle on the record itself.

AZ became a founding partner in an AI royalty platform that pays creators when their expertise trains machine learning systems, and hip-hop's most underrated lyricist is betting his legacy that it actually works.

Victoria Monét announces Frequency of Love and releases 'Reach Out,' a Kaytranada and D'Mile produced turn toward the dance floor that trades her classic soul sound for something bolder.

Jay-Z's Reasonable Doubt was not an instant blockbuster, but its 30-year journey from streetwise debut to permanent hip-hop text is the real story. After a Yankee Stadium performance that reunited Jay with Beyonce and Nas, the album's lessons on ambition, compromise, luxury and ownership feel more public, and more contested, than ever.

Lupe Fiasco, Gym Class Heroes, and B.o.B are taking the blog era on tour, and the numbers say millennial nostalgia has become a real live-music business.

A federal judge severed two new racketeering allegations from Lil Durk's August murder-for-hire trial. Here is what actually changed, and what didn't.

Mya's retro Give It to You video looks like a nostalgia trip. It is actually the clearest argument yet for why her independent, ownership-first approach has kept her working for three decades.

Twenty-five years after "Uh Huh," B2K's comeback single "Mileage" proves the reunion is built to last, and Omarion's parallel solo run backs up the argument.

Tinashe's new album Popstar looks like a major label comeback. It is actually the closing argument in a twelve year negotiation she started the day RCA let her go.

Rick Ross, Steve Lacy, Syd, Ambre, Larry June, Masego, Nao Yoshioka, Lil Baby and Pharrell Williams, MudBaby Ru, and Real Boston Richey headline the busiest New Music Friday of the summer, and the slate splits clean down the middle.

Hip-hop still leads U.S. streaming, but Luminate's 2026 numbers show Latin music and country closing the gap fast. Why the real threat isn't volume, it's a fading superstar pipeline.

Two solo albums missed the charts. Then Timbaland DMed her. Inside the "Main Attraction" video and the case it makes for Chlöe's solo era.