HotNewHipHop closes February with top hip-hop releases, highlighting innovation, diversity, and the genre’s evolution.

The Best New Hip-Hop This Week includes albums, videos, and songs from Doechii, Gelo, and Gunna.

Thanks to (what else?) the power of social media, Doechii could chart two different, but related, versions of a song.

The current hip-hop landscape has been shaped by trends that began in March 2020 and lasted until the spring of 2021, when ...

Roy Ayers, the towering jazz figure, passed away on Tuesday, March 4, at 84. Hip-Hop Wired has put together eight essential ...

Roy Ayers, a legendary jazz vibraphonist, keyboardist, composer and vocalist known for his spacy, funky 1976 hit “Everybody ...

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 ...