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 dominance,” while also pointing out that they made a rule change that ...

Rap falls off the Billboard Top 40 for the first time in 35 years — here’s what’s behind the drop

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 ...

This rap group put ‘Strong Island’ on the hip-hop map, broke through NYC barrier

Rap pioneers JVC Force put the suburbs on the hip-hop map with the iconic anthem “Strong Island” in the late 1980s — and their funk-filled ode to Long Island has new life stretching all the way across ...

The Billboard Hot 100’s Top 40 Has No Rap Songs for the First Time in 35 Years

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