Rap Airplay

THE WEEK’S MOST POPULAR RAP SONGS RANKED BY MAINSTREAM R&B/HIP-HOP AND RHYTHMIC RADIO AIRPLAY AUDIENCE IMPRESSIONS, AS MEASURED BY MEDIABASE AND PROVIDED BY LUMINATE. STATIONS ARE ELECTRONICALLY ... Read More

Hip-Hop Trends On Xitter After User Suggests It Wasn’t Born From Competition

Hip-Hop music and culture have influenced so many ... It wasn’t until much later that I saw value in competition when I began entering rap battles as a fledgling MC. During that time of my ... Read More

Rico Wade was the subject of a 2023 AJC hip-hop film. Here’s what he said

Rico Wade, founding member of ... 70′s funk and soul with contemporary rap—creating a definitive sound for the future of Southern hip-hop. That sound became pervasive in the 1990′s and ... Read More

Rico Wade: Hip-hop community, Atlanta react to the death of the legendary producer

Rico Wade, a legendary music producer, has died at 52, leaving the hip-hop community mourning and fans replaying the classic albums he helped create. Artist and activist Killer Mike, a frequent ... Read More

Rico Wade, an architect of Atlanta hip-hop, dies at 52

Rico Wade, an architect of Southern hip-hop who produced albums for rap acts including Outkast ... West coasts dominated radio and major label releases. Their work propelled the region from ... Read More

The Best New Hip-Hop This Week

The best new hip ... new releases. (It’s also Coachella weekend one, which might have something to do with it.) So, we’ll just jump straight in this time. Here is the best of hip-hop this ... Read More

J. Cole let hip-hop down

Hip-hop is built on competition, tracing back to Black oral traditions and New York street gangs. Some rap media pundits have ... in 2001 at Hot 97's Summer Jam with "Takeover." ... Read More

94.7 The Block NYC said Cee was 'one of the most important figures in the industry'

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Mister Cee, one of hip-hop’s pioneering DJs and a New York ... Mister Cee was a key player in the rap community. He was formerly Big Daddy Kane’s DJ and an executive ... Read More

Shikellamy starts the day with some hip-hop

SUNBURY — Hip hop sounds could be heard for blocks as a national dance company performed inside Shikellamy High School Gymnasium on Wednesday. Son Kiss’d Dance Concepts, of Texas, was brought ... Read More

Phaidon Unveils 'Rapper's Deluxe: How Hip Hop Made The World'

Phaidon has published its latest literary retrospective. Rapper’s Deluxe: How Hip Hop Made The World, written by Dr. Todd Boyd – a.k.a. The Notorious PhD – surveys the trajectory of hip-hop ... Read More

The 25 best hip-hop samples of all time

Hip-hop has existed for over 50 years, and since its inception, the genre has mastered the art of sampling to create some of the most iconic records in music history. Effectively using a sample ... Read More