Kendrick Lamar claims half of all the spaces inside the top 10 on the U.K.'s Official Hip-Hop and R&B Albums chart this week as several titles soar.

Kendrick Lamar is an artist with strong political views, which is illustrated through his multiple songs that bring awareness to the racial injustice in America as well as to many other aspects of inequality.

Azealia Banks has thrust herself into the center of hip-hop’s latest controversy through a series of pointed statements on X (formerly Twitter), targeting both Drake and Kendrick Lamar. Her intervention adds a new dimension to the ongoing tension between the two prominent artists,