Alphonse Pierre’s Off the Dome column covers songs, mixtapes, albums, scenes, snippets, movies, Meek Mill tweets, fashion ...

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 ...

Zohran Mamdani was elected the 111th mayor of New York in a historic victory that will put an avowed democratic socialist in ...

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

New York City’s new Mayor, Zohran Mamdani, is making history as the first Muslim, African-born South Asian to hold the post. Interestingly, before politics, he had a stint as a rapper—now a viral ...

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,” ...

Generative AI brings a whole new way to discover, search, and enjoy your favorite music with Alexa+ in the Amazon Music app.

LE SSERAFIM’s new single SPAGHETTI featuring BTS’s J-Hope debuts at No. 50 on Billboard Hot 100, marking their biggest chart ...

Lancey Foux is venturing into bold sonic terrain on his forthcoming LP ‘THE TIME OF OUR LIVES’ — and follow-up ‘BLEACHED’ ...

Red Hot Chili Peppers drummer Chad Smith is gifting a need-based music scholarship to the University of Michigan. The 64-year-old grew up in Detroit's suburbs.

In its lawsuit filed against Udio last year, Universal sought to show how specific AI-generated songs made on Udio closely resembled Universal-owned classics like Frank Sinatra’s “My Way,” The ...

The internet-born genre blending trap, jazz, and R&B. From Atlanta to Seoul, here’s why it’s blowing up in 2025 ...