Billboard’s Top R&B/Hip-Hop Artists of the 21st Century recap reflects performance on weekly charts dated Jan. 1, 2000, through Dec. 28, 2024. The category ranks the best-performing acts in that span based on activity on Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums and Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs. (Titles released prior to mid-1999 are excluded, although such entries that appeared on Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums or Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs in that span contribute to the calculation of the Top R&B/Hip-Hop Artists).| Billboard
Drake's Kendrick Lamar diss track "Push Ups" has arrived on streaming services. Listen to it here.| Billboard
DJ Akademiks premieres a diss track from Drake and then Rick Ross' subsequent response. Get the details.| Billboard
Ye, formerly known as Kanye West, is teasing his remix of Future, Metro Boomin and Kendrick Lamar's "Like That" diss track.| Billboard
With AI, fan page marketing, unlimited uploads and an endless stream of new music, how can anyone figure out what to listen to — or what's even real?| Billboard
Bad Bunny's 'Debi Tirar Mas Fotos' is back at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 albums chart after its vinyl release.| Billboard
Major labels are asking streaming services to take down AI soundalikes based on artists’ rights of publicity.| Billboard
HUNTR/X’s “Golden,” from the hit animated film "KPop Demon Hunters," conquers the competition on the Billboard Global 200 and Global Excl. U.S.| Billboard
Drake’s lawyers cited Kendrick Lamar's Super Bowl halftime show in his defamation lawsuit against Universal Music Group over "Not Like Us."| Billboard
Did TikTok kill the music video? Artist strategy is changing to clips that gain traction on social media.| Billboard
Morgan Wallen was joined by Drake and baseball legend Roger Clemens for his walkout at Houston’s NRG Stadium on June 21.| Billboard
THE WEEK’S MOST POPULAR CURRENT R&B/HIP-HOP SONGS ACROSS ALL GENRES, RANKED BY STREAMING ACTIVITY DATA BY ONLINE MUSIC SOURCES TRACKED BY LUMINATE, RADIO AIRPLAY AUDIENCE IMPRESSIONS AS MEASURED BY MEDIABASE AND PROVIDED BY LUMINATE AND SALES DATA AS COMPILED BY LUMINATE.| Billboard
SoundCloud finalized a deal with Warner Music allowing WMG artists to be paid based on the number of individual users streaming their music.| Billboard
Drake says UMG and Spotify schemed to boost Kendrick Lamar’s "Not Like Us" via bots, payola and other methods.| Billboard
Tupac Shakur’s estate threatened a lawsuit against Drake over a diss track aimed at Kendrick Lamar featuring an AI-generated version of Tupac's voice.| Billboard
The concept of box sets has changed as Beyonce, Harry Styles and others now include T-shirts and other merch to boost chart performance.| Billboard
The Drake and Kendrick feud proves the power and dangers of AI Fan Fiction.| Billboard
Drake is responding to Rick Ross' claim on the "Champagne Moments" diss track that he had a nose job.| Billboard
Metro Boomin's "BBL Drizzy" is the future of AI sampling in music after the producer accidentally used an AI-generated sample in a Drake diss track.| Billboard
Drake has released his "Taylor Made Freestyle" diss track, which uses AI verses in the style of Tupac Shakur and Snoop Dogg to taunt Kendrick Lamar.| Billboard