Throughout the decades, hip-hop has produced plenty of songs about emotional darkness. From Jay-Z to XXXTENTACION, here are 50 of the most depressing rap songs of all time.

But on “heart pt. 6,” he showed he hadn’t forgotten where he came from. “Top used to record me back when it was poor me/And now we at the round table for what ­assures me,” he rapped, later adding, ...

Stans attempts to reframe the song as the realest connective tissue possible between an impossibly huge star and the fans who always stayed committed.

Lil Nas X 's father, Robert Stafford, shared gut-wrenching details about the out rapper's recent hospitalization and arrest — acknowledging the financial pressures and family issues that he was ...

In September 1995, five guys brought together through a casting marked the beginning of what would become one of pop’s most ...

“I understand how the music business is,” Stafford said ... Nas' mom, Tameka Hill, has reportedly struggled with addiction and being unhoused, Rap-Up reported in 2021. The rapper told Variety in 2020 ...

Today in Music History for Sept. 19: In 1910, Salomon Mazurette, called the King of Canadian Pianists, died in Detroit at the age of 63.

August saw the death of Stella Rimington, the first female head of Britain’s MI5 intelligence agency. Over the course of her ...

“What It Sounds Like” is that choice set to a stadium-scale pop finale. It closes the arc between three women and the city ...

While former OVO artist ILoveMakonnen silences all of the criticism after revealing he's been working in a restaurant kitchen, he's also dragging "obsessed and bitter sister girl" Joe Budden for ...

Thanks to Young Thug's leaked prison tapes, the conversation about Atlanta rap has been dominated by everything but music ...

When Oregon decriminalized drugs in 2020, I sounded the alarm. Usually, I love being right. This time, not so much.