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Why Drake Might Be to Blame For Rap’s Sharp Decline
Since Drake’s debut, dozens of rapper like Doja Cat, Lil Yachty, and Young Thug have blurred the lines of pop music and rap ...
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Rap falls off the Billboard Top 40 for the first time in 35 years — here’s what’s behind the drop
The news may indicate a dip in rap’s dominance in mainstream music, but the music publication has also changed its ...
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For the first time in 35 years, the Billboard Top 40 has no hip-hop or rap songs. Here’s why
Hip-hop and rap have been driving culture in the U.S. for almost four decades now, especially in America. So why are these ...
Like a Buick Grand National, Kendrick Lamar keeps revving his way onto the Hot 100. The rapper just earned his third No. 1 of 2024 with “squabble up,” off his surprise album GNX, leading a decisive ...
Though some feared for the genre’s relevance in 2025, rap is well represented in the noms — especially Album of the Year ...
We’d gone over a year — 54 weeks total — without a rap No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100. But for the first time since Nicki Minaj’s “Super Freaky Girl” reigned in Aug. 2022, a song tops both Billboard‘s ...
It feels like the Billboard charts could use a good rap beef right about now. That’s because, according to the publication, for the first time since 1990, there is no hip hop in the Top 40 of the ...
“This is Pop girl sh*t but I’m not Pop.” Belcalis “Cardi B” Almánzar scored yet another Top 10 hit this week. The New York City-bred rapper’s “Up” opened at #2 on Billboard’s current Hot 100 chart, ...
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