Some of hip-hop's best collaborations have came about when rappers banded with some of the era's biggest pop stars. Let's take a look at some of the best songs in which hip-hop and pop have merged.

Rather than simply a genre, hip-hop is a culture – one chiefly expressed and disseminated through rap music. That notion of “keeping it real” – has been at its core. As ever with popular ...

By the late 1990s, hip-hop was dominating the popular music charts. Collectives like the Wu-Tang Clan (and all of its members’ subsequent solo albums), the Bad Boy Records family (that included ...

But his racist, anti-rap rap lyrics ultimately repeat the same tired charges right-wing politicians have used against hip-hop since its birth over 50 years ago. My father isn’t a music theorist.

As the 2025 Grammy Awards celebrate today’s leading house and hip-hop artists and their contemporary achievements, it is clear that the legacies of these two genres are mainstays in the kaleidoscope ...