The Best Hip Hop Music and Videos

Looking for the best in hip hop music and videos? Look no further than our blog, where we showcase the latest and greatest in the genre. From new music releases to classic videos, we’ve got it all covered.

New Releases

This week’s best new hip hop music and videos come from Chance the Rapper, Quavo, Cardi B, and more. If you’re looking for something to help get you through the week, look no further than this list.

Albums

New Releases
Here are the top new Hip Hop albums and mixtapes released in the past month. If you’re looking for the best new music, check out our other lists, updated daily.

Albums
1. Kendrick Lamar – DAMN.
2. J. Cole – 4 Your Eyez Only
3. Chance the Rapper – Coloring Book
4. Lil Uzi Vert – Luv Is Rage 2
5. A Boogie Wit Da Hoodie – The Bigger Artist

Singles

Chart of the most popular and best selling new hip-hop and rap songs on the iTunes rap chart. For a song to be listed below it must have a release date no older than two weeks from the current date and it must rank among the top 200 best selling rap songs. The amount of songs on the chart will vary from day-to-day.

Music Videos

In recent years, hip hop has taken the world by storm. It’s a genre that is unique, fresh, and exciting. The best hip hop music and videos are those that are able to capture the essence of the culture. They are able to tell a story and connect with the audience.

Hip Hop

Hip hop is a musical genre and culture that originated in the Bronx, New York City, in the 1970s. It is widely considered to be the most important cultural movement of the 20th century. The use of the term “hip hop” to describe this music and cultural phenomenon first appeared in print in 1971, on an album by Cowboy Mouth.

Rapper, MC, and disc jockey Afrika Bambaataa is credited with first using the term to describe the music and culture of South Bronx youth in the late 1970s. Hip hop became popular outside of the African-American community inStetsasonic’s 1986 song “In Full Gear”, and five years later in Public Enemy’s “Fight the Power”.

While often used to refer strictly to hip hop music (also called “rap”), hip hop is characterized by four key stylistic elements: MCing/rapping, DJing/scratching with turntables, break dancing, and graffiti writing. Other elements include sampling (or synthesis), beatboxing, and instrumental tracks.

Hip hop as both a musical genre and a culture was formed during the 1970s when block parties became increasingly popular among working class and poor residents of inner city neighborhoods such as Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn and The Bronx in New York City.

Rap

Rap is a music genre that consists of rhythmic vocal delivery that is often accompanied by backing beats. This can be achieved through the use of a variety of musical styles including: R&B, Soul, Funk, Disco, Reggae, and Rock. Rap music developed in the 1970s in the United States. It has expanded globally in the 21st century.

Featured Artists

Hip Hop is a genre of music that originated in the 1970s in the United States. It consists of a stylized rhythmic music that commonly accompanies rapping, a rhythmic and rhyming speech that is chanted. It developed as part of hip hop culture, a subculture defined by four key stylistic elements: MCing/rapping, DJing/scratching, break dancing, and graffiti writing.

Cardi B

Cardi B is an American rapper, songwriter, actress, and television personality. Born in The Bronx, New York City, she first attracted attention for discussing her career as a stripper on social media. Her debut single “Bodak Yellow” made her the first female rapper to top the Billboard Hot 100 chart without any featured artists credit since Lauryn Hill’s “Doo Wop (That Thing)” in 1998, and earned her a Grammy Award nomination for Best Rap Performance. She won two American Music Awards, six BET Hip Hop Awards, a Billboard Music Award and two MTV Video Music Awards.

In 2018, Time magazine included Cardi B on their annual list of the 100 most influential people in the world. As of September 2019, she is one of only two female rappers —the other being Missy Elliott—to have achieved five number-one songs on the Billboard Hot 100 chart. She has sold over 80 million records worldwide as a lead artist and featured artist.

Drake

Aubrey Drake Graham (born October 24, 1986) is a Canadian rapper, singer, songwriter, record producer, actor, and entrepreneur. A prominent figure in popular music, Drake is credited for popularizing the Toronto sound. He first gained recognition as an actor on the teen drama television series Degrassi: The Next Generation in the early 2000s. Intent on pursuing a career as a rapper, he departed the series in 2007 following the release of his debut mixtape Room for Improvement. He released two further independent projects Fashion Nova (2019) and Care Package (2019) before signing to Lil Wayne’s Young Money Entertainment in June 2009.

J. Cole

Jermaine Lamarr Cole, better known by his stage name J. Cole, is an American hip hop recording artist and record producer. Raised in Fayetteville, North Carolina, Cole initially gained recognition as a rapper following the release of his debut mixtape, The Come Up, in early 2007. Intent on further pursuing a solo career as a rapper, he went on to release two additional mixtapes after signing to Jay-Z’s Roc Nation imprint in 2009. Cole released his debut studio album, Cole World: The Sideline Story, in 2011. It debuted at number one on the U.S. Billboard 200 and was soon certified platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA). His next two releases, 2013’s Born Sinner and 2014’s 2014 Forest Hills Drive, received generally positive reviews from critics and both achieved commercial success; the latter earned Cole his first Grammy Award nomination for Best Rap Album