No Rap Songs in the Top 40 for First Time in 35 Years: Kendrick Lamar and SZA's 'Luther' Exits Billboard Hot 100

Billboard's recent change in threshold for songs to remain in the top 40 of the Hot 100 list booted Kendrick Lamar and SZA's ...

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 shut out from Billboard's Top 40 for the first time in 35 years

While this could’ve opened up the playing field for other rap songs to rise, there are other factors at play. For instance, ...

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 ...

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 ...
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The Courts Finally Get It Right in Drake v. Kendrick: Rap Lyrics Aren't Evidence

Drake lost, but artistic freedom won last week when a federal court in New York dismissed the rapper's case against UMG Recordings. The decision did more than end one of rap's most publicized legal ...

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 ...