Music

Get the latest hip-hop and rap music news as it happens! Browse recently published articles covering artist updates, album drops, collaborations and trending stories on HotNewHipHop.

Today | Week | Month | Year | All Time

Music DJ Akademiks Offers A Surprising Prediction About Diddy's Criminal Case's Outcome Diddy was recently hit with a new federal indictment that accuses the Bad Boy mogul of forced labor and employee assault. By Gabriel Bras Nevares March 08, 2025
Music Xzibit Explains Why Kendrick Lamar Calling Drake A Pedophile Is Fair Game In A Rap Battle Kendrick Lamar's accusations against Drake on tracks like "Not Like Us" led to Drizzy's defamation lawsuit against UMG. By Gabriel Bras Nevares March 07, 2025
Music Drake Reveals The Original Tracklist For "$ome $exy $ongs 4 U" With PARTYNEXTDOOR Drake and PARTYNEXTDOOR's "$ome $exy $ongs 4 U" remains a top five album on the Billboard 200 albums chart in its second week. By Gabriel Bras Nevares March 07, 2025
Music Mase Plans To Drop New Album On Diddy’s First Day Of Trial Diddy is currently behind bars at the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn awaiting his trial, which is scheduled to begin in May. By Caroline Fisher March 07, 2025
Music Kanye West Declares New Album "Bully" Has That "Antisemitic Sound" Kanye West has teased this new album "Bully" for a while, both through his bigoted rants and through working with Playboi Carti and The Game. By Gabriel Bras Nevares March 06, 2025
Sports Cam'ron Apologizes (Sort Of) To Chad Ochocinco After Erupting On Him Over Choosing Shannon Sharpe Instead Cam'ron and Chad Ochocinco are both doing just fine on their respective platforms, but the former feels he's got the leg up still. By Zachary Horvath March 04, 2025
Music Jay-Z's Assault Accuser Reportedly "Terrified" That Rapper Knows Her Identity Jay-Z is suing Jane Doe for defamation, but Doe contacted TMZ and claimed she feared the rapper's power and influence. By Elias Andrews March 03, 2025
Music DJ Akademiks Questions A$AP Rocky's Lawyer's Claim About Diddy & Jay-Z's Relationship If A$AP Rocky's lawyer Joe Tacopina is right about Jay-Z and Diddy's falling out, DJ Akademiks wants to know when that rift happened. By Gabriel Bras Nevares March 01, 2025
Music Lauryn Hill & Wyclef Jean To Reunite Alongside Doechii & More Stars For Miami's Jazz In The Gardens As controversial as Lauryn Hill, Wyclef Jean, and the Fugees' live performance dynamics tend to be, this looks like something special. By Gabriel Bras Nevares February 28, 2025
Music Offset Asks Court To Overturn $232K Default Judgment Over Alleged Strip Club Brawl In 2021, Offset was sued by two men who accused him of attacking them at a strip club the year prior "unprovoked." By Caroline Fisher April 19, 2025
Music Fredo Bang: "Hi Cardi B" Fredo Bang has been crushing over Cardi B for a while. The Louisiana rapper told Bootleg Kev he subscribed to Cardi's OnlyFans account. By Bryson "Boom" Paul April 19, 2025
Music Nobody Does It Better Young Dreamchasers artist Lil Snupe teamed up with Meek Mill for this track from his upcoming "R.N.I.C. (Real Nigga In Charge)" mixtape, which drops on April 12th. By hnhh March 30, 2013