While that anxiety may be palpable in the room, it’s nowhere to be found on Stardust. The 14-track offering is stuffed to the brim with joy and hope, inspired by Brown’s much-discussed journey to ...

Many Vietnamese rap songs feature themes like drugs or sex, largely because some artists unthinkingly imitate their western counterparts.

The current US Top 30 has no songs that could be officially described as rap or hip-hop – for the first time since 1990. That ...

The last rap song in the top 40 was Kendrick Lamar and SZA’s “ Luther ,” which spent 13 weeks at No. 1, and became both artists’ highest-charting, longest-running hit at 46 total weeks. But Billboard ...

The exit of “luther” reignites the contentious debate of rap’s commercial decline in 2025. While this theory is supported by ...

For the first time in more than 35 years, no rap songs appeared in the Billboard Hot 100’s top 40. This came after “ Luther,” ...

These controversial songs from the 1980s might elicit a love-hate response from the general public, but I'm firmly in the "love" camp.

On October 26, 2025, the musicians Lucy Dacus and Rufus Wainwright took the stage for a discussion with the New Yorker staff writer Amanda Petrusich at the 26th annual New Yorker Festival. Good ...