The Best New Hip-Hop This Week includes albums, videos, and songs from Lola Brooke, Lil Baby, and Quavo. While it’s not the busiest week, there’s plenty to get into for fans of pretty much every kind ...

THE WEEK’S MOST POPULAR CURRENT R&B/HIP-HOP SONGS ACROSS ALL GENRES, RANKED BY STREAMING ACTIVITY DATA BY ONLINE MUSIC SOURCES TRACKED BY LUMINATE, RADIO AIRPLAY AUDIENCE IMPRESSIONS AS MEASURED ...

Understand the meaning of Kanye West's Flashing Lights lyrics, where themes of love, fame, and emotional conflict take center ...

And the following year, Adina Howard’s “Freak Like Me” (Bootsy’s Rubber Band’s “I’d Rather Be With You”) mixes sexy and funky with some of the best synths ever used in R&B/hip-hop.

Playboi Carti’s newest album, “MUSIC,” was released on March 14, five years since the rapper divided the hip-hop world with ...