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The news may indicate a dip in rap’s dominance in mainstream music, but the music publication has also changed its top 100 rules. Rap has officially dipped out of the top 40 songs on the Billboard ...

*The week of October 25, 2025, marked an unprecedented setback for hip-hop: according to The AV Club, no rap songs made the Billboard Hot 100 Top 40. Billboard links some of this change to new ...

The Game is responding to Complex’s list of the top Los Angeles rappers of all time. The original list placed The Game at No. 11; his version places him at No. 5. In the top five with the Compton ...

Tyler, The Creator continues to defy expectations with Don’t Tap the Glass, one of the most intriguing rap albums of 2025.

Last week, hip-hop made headlines for a dubious reason. For the first time in more than 35 years, no rap songs appeared in the Billboard Hot 100’s top 40. This came after “Luther,” Kendrick Lamar’s ...

For the past couple of weeks, there’s been a lot of chatter about a lack of rap songs in the top 40 of the Billboard Hot 100 chart. Since the publication changed the rules to promote more movement on ...

Or is there a deeper cultural shift in the works? Those are the sorts of questions permeating social media and music discourse after a shocking report surfaced that the Billboard charts are missing a ...