Like every year, 2021 was an excellent year for rap music, with so many great albums coming from all across the board. From the poppiest pop-rap to the most experimental interpretations of hip hop, ...

If you’ve been reading Paste this year, you know a lot of music came out in 2021. Hip-hop was no exception, and despite a pandemic, it was a blessing in disguise to the many musicians who had an ...

One thing that's cool about hip-hop is that there's no right or wrong way to go about it. Since hip-hop's inception in the '70s, the genre has expanded to a number of subgenres including conscious rap ...

This year felt like a changing of the guard in rap. While many bigger artists released disappointing albums or stayed quiet, the smaller ones stepped up. Promising newcomers became fixtures. Fixtures ...

Fans gave their opinions on who they believe were the top characters in battle rap culture. It’s that time of the year when all kinds of “Best of Lists” are dropping and like last year, AllHipHop.com ...

It’s our favorite time of the year at Complex Music. We’ve already celebrated all the best songs and albums of the year, and now it’s time to answer the question: Who had the best rap verse of 2021?

In 2021, the grand and majestic rap stars all let us down. Drake made another commercial megalith, an album that dominated charts to an absurd degree, and it was just OK. Kanye West made a vast ...