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.

R. Kelly has formally asked Trump to commute his 30-year sentence, and his legal team's pitch borrows the president's own persecution narrative while the music industry stays conspicuously silent.

Remy Ma's playful new video for "Put Em On" isn't a departure from her sharper side. It's proof a 20-year veteran never had to choose one register over the other.

Tank's new single 'Yes' reimagines Floetry's 'Say Yes.' Beneath the homage sits a bigger story: 11 Adult R&B Airplay No. 1s, a Hulu role, and two decades of staying power most artists only talk about.