Hip Hop and Kendrick Lamar’s Hot 100 reign end amid new rules

New rules mean no rap in the Top 40 of the Hot 100 chart for the first time in 35 years and a shakeup to Kendrick Lamar’s ...
Opinion

Hip-Hop Misses Top 40 for the First Time in 35 Years — But Every New Taylor Swift Song Made the Chart

For the first time since 1990, the Top 40 of Billboard's Hot 100 chart is completely devoid of any hip-hop and/or rap songs.
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Pop Goes Hip-Hop: Take Rap's "Exit" From Billboard's Top 40 With A Grain Of Salt

The highest appearance by a hip-hop song is YoungBoy Never Broke Again's "Shot Callin," at No. 44. Yet in 1990, hip-hop was ...
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Hip-Hop on Pause? Not One Rap Song in Billboard’s Top 40 for the First Time Since 1990

Hip-Hop on Pause? Not One Rap Song in Billboard’s Top 40 for the First Time Since 1990 For the first time since February 1990, no rap songs are in the Billboard Hot 100’s top 40. This happened after ...
Rolling Out

New Music Friday: Hip-hop legends unleash must-hear releases

The latest New Music Friday arrives as a powerful testament to hip-hop’s enduring ability to reinvent itself while honoring its roots. This week’s releases showcase an impressive spectrum of artistic ...
Uproxx

The Best Of Hip-Hop From The 2024 Uproxx Music Critics Poll

Hip-hop is well-represented in the 2024 Uproxx Critics Poll, in a year defined as much by conflict as anything else. This is the 7th annual version of the poll, in which nearly 300 music critics from ...