Top 10 best rap songs of 2025: the most influential, innovative and culturally impactful tracks shaping modern hip-hop.

On Sunday afternoon (Feb. 2), hours before the 67th annual Grammy Awards, Kendrick Lamar was awarded a golden gramophone for Best Rap Song at a pre-show premiere ceremony at the Cypto.com arena in Los ...

In a previous article I wrote on Kendrick Lamar's "Not Like Us" and rap's place within popular music, I argued that since the beginning of rap records, hip-hop culture's relationship to the music ...

Kendrick Lamar’s “Not Like Us” has officially become the most-streamed rap song ever in a single year on Spotify, amassing a staggering 1.44 billion streams. The record-breaking track dethrones Lil ...

Kendrick Lamar’s “Not Like Us” adds another honor to a triumphant February for the artist, breaking the record for the most weeks at No. 1 on Billboard’s Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart. The ...

What started off as a cleverly written diss track has blossomed into something much more. During the 2025 Grammys, Kendrick Lamar’s scathing Drake diss track “Not Like Us” swept all five of its ...

A recent tiff between underground rap promo pages has sparked an impassioned online debate about the definition of “gimmick rappers” over the past week. Most of it is boring and wrapped up in ...