Producers such as RZA, DJ Premier and Q-Tip made their name by constantly making some of the best beats in hip-hop.

While hip-hop is continuously in a state of innovation, early on its ear for music was attached to the sounds its earliest listeners enjoyed partying to.

We've spoken about the best albums of the 2000s, but let's talk about the best rap songs of the 2000s. We've got some classics to cover.

Kendrick Lamar beats another Drake record with the song Not Like Us, becoming the fastest hip-hop track in history to reach 100 million Spotify streams.

In one of the most talked-about moments of the 2025 American Music Awards, Eminem emerged victorious in two of the show’s biggest Hip-Hop categories, beating out fellow rap titan Kendrick Lamar ...

By no means would this become a chart-topper in today’s rap landscape, particularly because this brand of non-expletive, unspecific lyricism is much more geared to earlier eras of hip-hop.