The most compelling releases of the year reimagined hip-hop tracks, deep-rooted collaborations and longstanding inspirations.

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Discover what Spotify Wrapped 2025 reveals about your personality as it can be a pretty decent predictor. Decode the ...

In our time, it's easy to shut your mind, driven by fear or misinformation. This year, NPR Music's pop critic found the ...

With a score of 97 out of 100 from critics, LUX is on Metacritic's list of best albums of the year and has everything it ...

The Explorers Club has become a direct pipeline for content creators seeking real stories rooted in adventure, science, and ...

On our just-published year-end Hot 100 chart, 11 of the top 12 songs were released before 2025, and over half of them even ...

Here are Pitchfork’s 40 best rap songs of 2025. Check out all of Pitchfork’s 2025 wrap-up coverage here. When Wham ( Lil Baby ...

Our staff's favorite albums from the year that was. Is pop now officially an albums-driven genre? The year 2025 made a strong argument for the answer being “yes.” Acclaimed sets from rising stars like ...

BigXthaPlug isn't afraid to challenge the status quo. But when the Dallas rapper learned he had been named Variety's hip-hop ...

And 2025 was the year it went mainstream. It now feels like no one is safe. Previously we assumed that Hollywood will always ...