It’s an end of year special!

On this day in 2009, Jay-Z launched his single “On to the Next One” from his album The Blueprint 3. It entered both Billboard ...

More than two decades after its release, Eminem's "Lose Yourself" finally becomes the bestselling rap song in America — as ...

The new millennium was a wild time for music, and quite a few killer songs from 1999 have been forgotten and lost to time.

All of which is to say that if you were looking for chart-topping hits this year, you might’ve been disappointed, but if you were looking for good hip-hop music, 2025 was one of the best years to be a ...

From long-awaited projects to breakthrough releases, here are the albums that made 2025 another solid year in music.

Technically, Up My Standards is a mixtape, but it sounds more like one long radio freestyle. The only moments where Philly’s ...

Your 2026 Spotify wrapped may include a shocking amount of 'robot rock.' ...

Lady Gaga and Bruno Mars’ “Die With a Smile” tops the 2025 year-end Hot 100 Songs chart, after it led the Hot 100 for five ...

As we prepare to enter 2026, Okayplayer wraps up our 2025 with a list of the 25 songs that defined the year — a soundtrack of ...

Algernon Cadwallader, “Trying Not to Have a Thought”; Amaarae, “Black Star”; Corridos Ketamina, “Corridos Ketamina”; Nick ...

Whim Whamiee,” performed by budding Atlanta rappers Pluto and YK Niece was released in February. The song’s undeniable ...