A quick guide to the underground genre, featuring fakemink, Bladee, Yung Lean and more. By Dani Blum I’m Dani, a health reporter (and sometimes music writer) at The Times, filling in this week for ...

Note: This story contains spoilers from “DTF St. Louis” Episode 4. From the very beginning, “DTF St. Louis” has been willing to take big swings. It proved that in its first episode when it revealed ...

'Retro Rewind,' designed for the PC by indie studio Blood Pact, rents out spoofs of early '90s movies like 'Phantom Patrol,' a send-up of 'Ghostbusters.' By Tony Maglio Samuel Gauthier has a ton of ...

For some college basketball fans, filling out an NCAA Tournament bracket can be a gradual process. Initial picks are made on Selection Sunday, and then they're adjusted as the week progresses, with ...

GameSpot may get a commission from retail offers. When Barbarian and Weapons director Zach Cregger signed on to helm the next Resident Evil movie, it was described as "a revamp that will take the ...

Killer Mike, Travis Scott, T.I. and other artists said James Broadnax was sent to death row in Texas based partly on his artistic expression. By Adam Liptak Adam Liptak is the chief legal ...

The KISS frontman slammed the institution for including rap and hip-hop artists: "I don't come from the ghetto, it doesn't speak my language." By James Hibberd Writer-at-Large Gene Simmons says ...

How do you know anything is real? Some things you can see directly, like your fingers. Other things, like your chin, you need a mirror or a camera to see. Other things can’t be seen, but you believe ...

Kendrick Lamar has secured another major milestone as GNX is officially the most-streamed rap album on Spotify in 2025. The project amassed 2.98 billion streams, outperforming the next-closest release ...

From Run-DMC’s Queens classic to De La Soul’s subversive storytelling, to “Trap Christmas”…rap has always celebrated the holidays on its own terms. Christmas in Hip-Hop has never been ...

The federal Repayment Assistance Plan, or RAP, will be the newest student loan repayment plan. President Donald Trump’s “big, beautiful bill,” passed in 2025, made many changes to federal student loan ...

In a year that had no rap songs in the Billboard Hot 100’s Top 40 for the first time since 1990, rap thrived in so many other ways. This list of the 25 best rap albums of 2025 includes grand ...