This spiraled into a diss-track war in April and May, with Cole, Drake, Rick Ross, and Lamar all releasing new songs. At first ... better than all the rising rap stars, including Drake and ...

The unknown can be intimidating, and our natural instinct to understand it through logic, popular meaning, and numbers helps us cope. But this week, we take a deeper look at how numbers don’t lie – ...

Nice clean n*gga ... “I open up the messages and had to hit the zoom/ Turns out the girl was really a dude?!” Doechii goes on to rap about the early days of her career. She raps, “N*gga ...

But the fact remains that none of the iconic 60s and 70s Grateful Dead songs came anywhere ... is undeniable: “The Message” was the first explicitly topical rap record, one of the first ...

The best music videos of the 00s are a varied bunch. There’s unique visual trickery by masters of the form. There’s genre-defining moments in neo-soul and hip-hop, as well as genre-busting ...

THE WEEK’S MOST POPULAR CURRENT RAP SONGS ACROSS ALL GENRES, RANKED BY STREAMING ACTIVITY DATA BY ONLINE MUSIC SOURCES TRACKED BY LUMINATE, RADIO AIRPLAY AUDIENCE IMPRESSIONS AS MEASURED ...

As the year comes to an end, we’re paying tribute to our favorite albums and songs released across ... Matt Mitchell, Music Editor A Very Good Album That Has Rap Elements But Also Has a Lot ...

Barack Obama celebrated his wife Michelle’s 61st birthday with a flirtatious message about her good looks. “Happy birthday to the love of my life, @MichelleObama,” the former president wrote ...

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 ...

Who knew that Brian Wilson would end up on this list? The songwriting mastermind behind The Beach Boys has rarely penned an objectively bad song; he’s just on another level of artistry.

Samsung Messages is not installed on the Galaxy S25 series. Samsung said in July 2024 that Google Messages would become the default app. Google Messages has been preloaded on Samsung phones since ...