The Alchemist has added his two cents on the topic that had Rap Twitter in a frenzy this week.

Billboard's recent change in threshold for songs to remain in the top 40 of the Hot 100 list booted Kendrick Lamar and SZA's ...

For two weeks in a row, rap has been absent from the Billboard Hot 100's top 40. It's been 35 years since the genre ranked ...

If there's one rising pop star actually making a noteworthy impact in this period of total Taylor Swift dominance, it's ...

Taylor Swift claims eight of the top 10 songs on the Hot 100 via her album 'The Life of a Showgirl,' led by “The Fate of ...

Billboard has revised its system of removing songs from the Hot 100 singles chart once they've gotten too old to qualify as ...

Thanks to the inclusion of several gigantic hits like "WAP" and "Up" that had never appeared on an album, Cardi B's Am I the ...

As one long-running hip-hop smash goes recurrent on the chart, the Hot 100’s top 40 does not boast a single rap song, ending ...

Billboard Hot 100 has no rap songs in the Top 40 for the first time since 1990 following rule changes that knocked Kendrick Lamar from the chart.

For the first time since February 1990, the Billboard Hot 100 ’s top 40 section contained zero rap songs on the chart dated ...

Yesterday, Billboard deputy editor and Stereogum buddy Andrew Unterberger published a piece with some confusing implications: ...