The Key To a Hit Rap Song in 2025? Twitch Streamers
As tends to happen when a young person starts getting motion in the rap world, Drake reportedly followed Plaqueboymax over the weekend after shouting him out during his own livestream with Adin Ross.
GloRilla Is the 2025 NAACP Image Awards Most Nominated Musician
The nominees for the 2025 NAACP Image Awards are in and include Beyoncé,, Usher, and Doechii, with GloRilla leading the pack ...
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Today In Hip Hop History: 45 Years Ago Sugar Hill Gang’s “Rapper’s Delight” Became Hip-Hop’s First Top 40 Hit
On this day 45 years ago, “Rapper’s Delight” by the Sugarhill Gang became Hip-Hop’s first-ever Top 40 hit, marking a transformative moment in music history. Released in August 1979 by the Englewood, ...
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5 Well-Known Rap Hits With a Classic Rock Sample as a Backbone
When the mainstream popularity of rap music elevated in the late 1980s, it often did so with the help of inventive sampling. While many samples came from the R&B funk world, clever hip-hop artists and ...
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Chance the Rapper Becomes First Fully Independent Artist to Achieve Diamond Certification
Grammy-winning artist and cultural innovator Chance the Rapper has reached an extraordinary milestone with the Diamond certification of “I’m the One,” his 2017 collaboration with DJ Khaled, Quavo, ...