Rap battles reward confidence, but these pushed it to the edge. Each clip shows how fast control can slip when emotions take over. The energy in the room changes instantly, and everyone feels it.

In a year that had no rap songs in the Billboard Hot 100’s Top 40 for the first time since 1990, rap thrived in so many other ways. This list of the 25 best rap albums of 2025 includes grand ...

Paul Thomas Anderson's big-budget satire "One Battle After Another, which topped this year's Golden Globes, receiving nine nominations, including Best Picture – Musical/Comedy and Best Actor for ...

Vets and newbies flexed their best bars in 2025. After being spoiled by a monstrous three-peat from Future, a lyrical face-off between Drake and Kendrick Lamar, and scintillating releases from Doechii ...

Here is a recap of Billboard Boxscore's top 10 rap tours of 2025, featuring Travis Scott, Wu-Tang Clan and more. By Eric Frankenberg Billboard revealed its year-end Boxscore charts earlier in December ...

“One Battle After Another” will soon become available to watch at home. The Paul Thomas Anderson movie starring Leonardo DiCaprio will debut on HBO Max on Dec. 19. Starring DiCaprio, Sean Penn, Teyana ...

21 Savage said he believed Drake came through his feud with Kendrick Lamar relatively unscathed, but still revealed he told the Toronto rapper not to throw himself into the infamous rap battle. Near ...

Every year, we’re told that hip-hop is in crisis. But if you ask us, it feels like there’s too much heat to keep up with. What’s lost on the chart-watchers lamenting rap’s mainstream lull is that the ...

It feels like the Billboard charts could use a good rap beef right about now. That’s because, according to the publication, for the first time since 1990, there is no hip hop in the Top 40 of the ...

A$AP Rocky weighed in on Kendrick Lamar and Drake’s explosive 2024 rap battle, calling the feud between the two musicians “healthy” for hip-hop culture. “It ...

Spoiler alert! We're discussing important plot points and the ending of “Highest 2 Lowest” (streaming now on Apple TV+), so beware if you haven’t seen it yet. Do not get in a rap battle with Denzel ...