The conversation around The Big Day has been dominated by two questions. First, is this really, as claimed, Chance the Rapper’s debut album? And second, does it need to be 22 tracks long?

Lizzo is one of music's biggest stars at the moment - a fact that was evident last week when people around the country were left devastated after tickets for the superstar's first ever Irish show disappeared within seconds.

Multi-platinum-selling rapper Ja Rule is set to go to prison, but he is leaving fans with an album on the way.

US rap star Ja Rule today agreed to go to prison for two years in a gun case, becoming the second platinum-selling rapper set to do time after arrests in the aftermath of a star-studded hip-hop concert in July 2007.