The album, released on a Wednesday for the rapper's 31st birthday, rockets after its first full tracking week.

The Leaks, Lil Baby ‘s new album, tops this week's fan-voted music poll. Music fans voted in a poll published Friday (Dec. 5) on Billboard, choosing the rapper's latest collection as their favorite ...

The best albums of 2025 spanned seismic rage rap, intricate guitar music, protest folk, spacey dream pop, and laptop twee. A virtuoso of experimental electronic music re-emerged, a Brooklyn band ...

Earlier this year, my colleague and bud Kelefa Sanneh suggested that music critics, as a lot, have gone soft—becoming submissive, overly agreeable, and, in some cases, nearly servile. He’s right, of ...

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Lil Baby celebrates his 31st birthday by releasing The Leaks, a compilation of long-awaited tracks for his most loyal supporters. Lil Baby will mark his 31st birthday on December 3 with a gift to his ...

"If challenging power is a core tenet of hip-hop," he continues, "few album covers encapsulate that as stylishly as Hard Core." The full list is now available at Billboard.com.

Lil Kim just earned another major accolade nearly thirty years after she changed the sound and style of rap. Billboard has officially ranked her debut album Hard Core as the greatest hip hop album ...