The Hip-Hop world lost a true pioneer when Gene “Groove” Allen passed away in February 2025. As a key member of Groove B. Chill, Allen helped bridge the gap between Hip-Hop’s golden era and mainstream ...

In a heartwarming twist during their From Zero World Tour, Linkin Park helped a fan share a deeply personal announcement: the ...

Hip-Hop Wired approached the compiling of this list of top Hip-Hop releases in the same fashion we approach our CRT FRSH ...

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

During his high school days, John Wall's explosive and spectacular game earned him a reputation as one of the nation's top ...

Artists like Jessie Murph and songwriters like Laura Veltz and Ben Johnson highlight Nashville's soulful pop melding with ...

This is the start of our top 75 of our essential 100 (or so) tracks to come out of Scotland in 2025. It marks the 11th year of this rundown of the best Scots tracks of the year.   As ever, in 2025, ...

Lest there be any doubt, 2015 was a very good year for UK rap fans. Aside from the grime renaissance, the Section Boyz and 67 ...

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 ...

As troops followed their commander’s orders, the relocants sped off in all directions on their scooters,” runs a line from “The Best in Heaven,” a song honoring Russian soldiers killed in Ukraine. The ...

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 ...

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 ...