For The First Time in 35 Years, There Are No Rap Songs in the Hot 100 Top 40

For the first time, Billboard's Hot 100 Top 40 doesn't feature a single rap song. Is this due to changing listener ...
Yahoo

What Do We Take From Doja Cat’s ‘Paint the Town Red’ Becoming Rap’s First Hot 100 No. 1 of 2023?

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 ...
Forbes

Ice Spice Has Gone From Rising Hip-Hop Talent To Reliable, Charting Hitmaker In Just One Month

NEW YORK, NEW YORK - OCTOBER 06: Ice Spice visits SiriusXM Studios on October 06, 2022 in New York City. (Photo by Santiago Felipe/Getty Images) New York-based rapper Ice Spice has been steadily ...
Pitchfork

The 43 Best Rap Songs of 2022

It’s a testament to rap’s robust health that, even though some of the genre’s biggest names didn’t necessarily put out their best work—Drake whiffed twice, while his opposite number, Kendrick, ...

Kendrick Lamar’s ‘Luther’ Departs Hot 100, Leaving No Rap Songs in the Top 40 for First Time in 35 Years

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.