No Rap Songs Are in the Billboard Hot 100's Top 40 for the First Time Since 1990

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 ...

Rap music just vanished from the Billboard Top 40 for the first time in 35 years

"Rap music is still all over the top 40; it's just not being made by rappers," Stereogum's Tom Breihan observed in a column ...

Are we living through a rap drought? The Billboard charts suggest we are

Billboard reports that “the lack of rap songs in the Hot 100’s top 40 is the latest sign of a recent dip in rap’s commercial ...
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There Are No Rap Songs In The Top 40 For The First Time In 35 Years

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

Real humans don’t stream Drake songs 23 hours a day, rapper suing Spotify says

Most suspiciously, individual accounts would sometimes listen to Drake “exclusively” for “23 hours a day”—which seems like ...
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The Billboard Top 40 Now Contains Zero Rap Songs for the First Time in Decades

"The lack of rap songs in the Hot 100’s top 40 is the latest sign of a recent dip in rap’s commercial dominance," Billboard ...

Drake Breaks Silence on Blue Jays’ World Series Loss to Dodgers

Canadian rapper Drake finally addressed his Toronto Blue Jays' loss to the Los Angeles Dodgers in the World Series.
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Drake (the rapper) reps Drake University in new music video. What song was it for?

Drake University got the shoutout of a lifetime in a recent music video from the rapper Drake. The music video was released on YouTube on March 31 and already has over 11 million views. Drake is ...
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For the First Time in 35 Years, No Rap Songs Appear in Billboard’s Hot 100 Top 40

For the first time in 35 years, not a single rap song cracked Billboard’s Top 40. Kendrick’s “Luther” fell off — and ...