R&B/Hip-Hop Airplay 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 ...

David Edwards has spent over a decade reporting on social justice, human rights and politics for Raw Story. He also writes Crooks and Liars. He has a background in enterprise resource planning and ...

Waist-to-hip ratio is the circumference of your waist divided by the circumference of your hips. Having a higher WHR indicates that you have more weight around your abdomen and higher levels of ...

The Best New Hip-Hop This Week includes albums, videos, and songs from JID, Leikeli47, and Stormzy. Okay, so, I fudged it a bit. JID didn’t put out a new single this week, per se, but he did put ...

The complexity of mother-child relationships provides fertile ground for artistic expression, with hip-hop artists often revealing their most authentic selves when addressing maternal bonds.

Sen. John Kennedy, R-La., said Sunday during an interview that the deportation of Kilmar Abrego Garcia was a "screw-up" by President Donald Trump's administration. Kennedy took issue with his ...

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 ...

Hip-Hop Wired’s May 2025 roundup of rising artists is packed with artists making noise across the country. From Columbus to Atlanta, here are the standout tracks you need to hear this month ...

Not much, but new market tax credits do. “This is a prime example of an investment that is going to create an enriched opportunity for people to partake and celebrate a global genre such as hip-hop,” ...