Pac earns a surprise modern hit as “Hit ’Em Up” debuts on a Billboard chart, adding another posthumous milestone to the ...

While an official release date is still unannounced, many fans believe that DON’T BE DUMB is slated to drop on January 16, ...

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 ...

WBC lightweight champion Shakur Stevenson is reportedly set to fight Teofimo Lopez on January 31st. The match-up will be the main event of the New York card and Lopez's WBO super-lightweight title ...

I joined Paste in 2023 and, in my tenure as editor, this year’s AOTY list is my favorite by far. The publication has been doling out these rankings since 2002, affixing an “Album of the Year” ribbon ...

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 ...

Sean “Diddy” Combs was embroiled in controversy long before his 2025 sex trafficking trial. As a key figure in the East Coast-West Coast gangster rap wars of the 1990s, persistent conspiracy theories ...

2Pac's Greatest Hits is now one of fewer than 20 albums to spend 600 weeks or more on the Billboard 200, a milestone these reaches this frame. CHICAGO - MARCH 1994: Rapper Tupac Shakur poses for ...

In late October 2025, a video circulated online purportedly showing various clips of the late rapper Tupac Shakur appearing as a guest in an unaired episode of the educational children's television ...

Terence Crawford predicts that his friend Shakur Stevenson will thrash WBO light welterweight champion Teofimo Lopez when they battle on January 31, 2026. Crawford has been a mentor for the former ...