Pop punk and emo bands like Gym Class Heroes, Motion City Soundtrack, and Cartel took over in 2005. Now, they're back and making new music.

Since hip-hop's inception, the genre has exponentially grown with every single decade, and the 2000s era was no different. Hip-hop saw even more commercial success than before; it succeeded in ...

Funk You Up” had a playful chorus that mimicked a game of musical chairs: “Get up, get up, get up, get up, get up, get up, get up, get up, get up” — and then, suddenly, “sit back down.” The girls ...

There is no debate that Queens’ own Nicki Minaj completely modernized rap with her versatility and bold lyricism. Born in Queens, the “Super Bass” rapper broke barriers for women in hip-hop but also ...

Editor’s note: This story is part of That’s My Word, an ongoing KQED series about Bay Area hip-hop history. “I’ll never lose that spirit, but I don’t miss being on the street from morning to night,” ...

The 1990s and 2000s were big years for music: an era when pop stars ruled the charts, boy bands made us scream, and R&B and rock blended into outstanding anthems. Styles changed fast, new sounds took ...

BATON ROUGE, Louisiana — Young Bleed, a popular rapper in the 1990s, has died of complications from a brain aneurysm, just days after he was rushed to a hospital. Young Bleed’s son, Ty’Gee Ramon, ...

Megan Thee Stallion’s new single, “Lover Girl,” debuted at No. 38 on the Billboard Hot 100 This marks the first rap song in two weeks to enter the chart’s Top 40 The achievement ends the first drought ...

For the first time since 1990, the Top 40 of Billboard’s Hot 100 chart is completely devoid of any hip-hop and/or rap songs. “No rap songs appear in the top 40 on the Hot 100 for the first time since ...

“Luther” fell off the Billboard Hot 100 due to the chart’s new recurrent rule, ending Hip-Hop’s 35-year top 40 streak. Kendrick Lamar saw his chart-topping streak come to a halt as “Luther,” his ...

*The week of October 25, 2025, marked an unprecedented setback for hip-hop: according to The AV Club, no rap songs made the Billboard Hot 100 Top 40. The long-running hit “Luther” by SZA and Kendrick ...