All of which is to say that if you were looking for chart-topping hits this year, you might’ve been disappointed, but if you were looking for good hip-hop music, 2025 was one of the best years to be a ...

Here are Pitchfork’s 40 best rap songs of 2025. Check out all of Pitchfork’s 2025 wrap-up coverage here. When Wham ( Lil Baby ...

At the end of the 20th century, hip-hop was booming, but the mood was dour. Two of the greatest rappers of all time—2Pac and The Notorious B.I.G.—had recently been violently killed. Artists were ...

TopOppGen in “Petty $hit,” directed by AkilsPOV. Graphic by Chris Panicker. Nowadays, I look back on it all as a cautionary tale of how fast things go south when ...

As you might be able to tell, I’ve long thought that most popular emo rap was bad, but the one tape for which I still have a soft spot is Lil Peep’s Crybaby. Released in 2016, Peep, like Gates, ...