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THE WEEK’S MOST POPULAR CURRENT R&B/HIP-HOP SONGS ACROSS ALL GENRES, RANKED BY STREAMING ACTIVITY DATA BY ONLINE MUSIC SOURCES TRACKED BY LUMINATE, RADIO AIRPLAY AUDIENCE IMPRESSIONS AS MEASURED ...

Popularised by hours-long videos and playlists with titles like “lo-fi hip-hop radio beats to relax/study to” or “lo-fi coffee beats”, the lo-fi music genre has become an enduring staple ...

James Dewitt Yancey (February 7, 1974 – February 10, 2006), better known by the stage names J Dilla and Jay Dee, was an American record producer and rapper who emerged in the mid-1990s underground hip ...

The week’s most popular songs, ranked by radio airplay audience impressions based on monitored airplay compiled by Luminate. Audience totals are derived, in part, using certain Nielsen Audio ...

The Best New Hip-Hop This Week includes albums ... “Baby Boy Is Drunk” to Bay Area swagapino standouts Guapdad and P-Lo on “I’m The Shit” to his longtime Pro Era cohorts on “SMH.” ...

While on the XXL Cypher Lab set at Brooklyn's 1896 studios in October, DJ C-Lo speaks on the ways in which the cypher artists ...

Amsterdam-based producer and multi-instrumentalist 9T7 has released his highly anticipated debut EP, On Intuition, through ...

2024 has been filled with hip-hop highlights. While the culture experiences celebratory moments, the rap world has also been shaken multiple times due to the deaths of members of the hip-hop ...

J Dilla, whose real name was James Dewitt Yancey, had hitherto been known only by the hip-hop underground and in the small ...

PBS spoke with Executive Producers Chuck D and Lorrie Boula, and Series Director Yemi Bamiro, about the evolution of Hip Hop, its influence on popular culture, the next generation, and more.