The Best New Hip-Hop This Week includes albums, videos, and songs from EST Gee, Nardo Wick, and Will Smith.

Every Friday, pop critics for The New York Times weigh in on the week’s most notable new tracks. Listen to the Playlist on Spotify here (or find our profile: nytimes) and at Apple Music here, and sign ...

Galactic and Irma Thomas, glbl wrmng, Kate Fagan, HaSizzle, Brat and more New Orleans musicians released new music in January ...

Week in and week out, there are plenty of brand-new rap songs, no matter the time of year. It can be really difficult to stay aware of what's out and also what's hot, so XXL decided to make things ...

Anuv Jain and AP Dhillon team up for their first-ever collaboration with "Afsos," a genre-blending track that fuses Jain’s ...

The standout track from the five-cut EP Spirea, released last week by Alana Christen’s band/alter ego, has the perfect ...

Today’s selection features a few indie stalwarts returning with new albums ( Perfume Genius, Lucy Dacus, Japanese Breakfast ) ...

With Fresh Picks, Billboard aims to highlight some of the best and most interesting new sounds across R&B and hip-hop — from ...

RAYE had “zero expectations” to hear her name when the 2025 Grammy nominations were announced in November 2024. The British ...

East London rapper Jeshi is about to drop his second album Airbag Woke Me Up, and Scumbag is one more single for the road.

President-elect Donald Trump is hoping to make Hollywood “stronger than ever before” by naming Sylvester Stallone, Mel Gibson and Jon Voight as “special ambassadors,” whose goal will be to bring back ...

The record hit No. 5 on the Billboard album charts and made it to No. 2 on the R&B/Hip-Hop charts. In 2024, she had five songs chart on the Billboard Hot 100. Her charting songs were "Wanna Be ...