Hip-hop & R&B radio stations, live
Hip-hop and R&B radio plays rap, R&B and urban contemporary music, from old-school to today’s charts, from US and European networks. Skywave DX lists 28 hip-hop & r&b stations from 9 countries (13 in the USA, 6 in the UK, 7 in the rest of Europe, 2 elsewhere), every stream test-played before it is listed; the most listened to right now are Skyrock, 181.FM - Old School HipHop/RnB and Los 40 Urban. Each one plays through the station’s own live stream, free and without an account.
Top in the USA
13 hip-hop & r&b stations · most listened first- 1181🇺🇸181.FM - Old School HipHop/RnB Virginia · 121/day
- 2181🇺🇸181.FM - The Beat (HipHop/R&B) Virginia · 38/day
- 3
SomaFM Fluid California · 27/day - 4AU🇺🇸All Underground Hip Hop Radio Texas · 27/day
- 52000🇺🇸2000 FM - RnB & Hip-Hop Washington · 10/day
- 6100🇺🇸.100 Hip hop and RNB FM United States · 8/day
- 7
Motown Radio United States · 6/day - 8
GotRadio Hip Hop Stop United States · 6/day - 9977🇺🇸.977 Jamz Florida · 6/day
- 10181🇺🇸181.FM - True R&B Virginia · 5/day
- 11
Power 105.1 New York, New York · 4/day
- 12JAMZ🇺🇸Hot 108 JAMZ United States · 3/day
Top in the UK
6 hip-hop & r&b stations · most listened first- 1ML🇬🇧MoE Lofi United Kingdom · 13/day
- 2
London Soul Radio London · 7/day - 3
TMM 2 Camden · 6/day - 4DF🇬🇧Diva Radio - Funk & Disco Music Paradise London · 6/day
- 5
LABR Love a Brother Radio United Kingdom · 3/day - 6TMM 2 (HQ) Camden · 2/day
Top in Europe
7 hip-hop & r&b stations · most listened first- 1
Skyrock France · 389/day
- 2
Los 40 Urban Madrid, Spain · 85/day - 3
- 0 N - Indie on Radio Bayern, Germany · 30/day - 4RH🇵🇹Rap/Hip Hop Portugal · 16/day
- 5
i love radio - hip hop turnup Germany · 7/day
- 6D🇩🇪Deutschrap Lower Saxony, Germany · 6/day
- 71H🇮🇹Radio 105 - HipHop & RnB Lombardia, Italy · 6/day
Around the world
2 hip-hop & r&b stations · most listened first- 1UD🇺🇬Uganda DJs Uganda · 21/day
- 2
La Kalle Bogotá, Colombia · 14/day
Hip-hop & R&B radio: questions
How many hip-hop & r&b radio stations can I listen to here?
28 hip-hop & r&b stations from 9 countries, 18 of them with their own station page. Every stream was test-played when the directory was last rebuilt, and stations whose streams stop working are dropped.
Which hip-hop & r&b station is the most popular?
Skyrock (France) is the most-listened hip-hop & r&b station in the directory, with about 389 listener plays a day across apps using the Radio Browser directory. In the USA it is 181.FM - Old School HipHop/RnB, in the UK MoE Lofi.
Is it free to listen to hip-hop & r&b radio on Skywave DX?
Yes. Press the Listen button next to any station to hear its own live stream in your browser, on desktop or phone, with no account and no ads added. "Listen in the app" opens the full Skywave DX player filtered to hip-hop & r&b stations, where you can save favourites and see what is playing.
Rankings are listener plays per day across apps that use the Radio Browser community directory. Streams last test-played on October 14, 2026.