Thursday, October 30, 2025

Hip Hop Hits Grim Milestone



Last year Hip Hop turned 50 years old with much fanfare [click here if you missed that].

This week, for the first time since 1990, there are no Hip Hop records on the top 40 chart...

With Kendrick Lamar and SZA’s 13-week Billboard Hot 100 No. 1 “Luther” falling off the Hot 100 dated Oct. 25, 2025, there were officially no rap songs in the chart’s top 40 last week.
The highest-ranking rap song — defined as a song deemed eligible for charting on Billboard’s Hot Rap Songs listing — on the Oct. 25 Hot 100 was YoungBoy Never Broke Again’s “Shot Callin,” at No. 44. Cardi B’s “Safe” (featuring Kehlani) and BigXthaPlug’s “Hell at Night” (featuring Ella Langley) also ranked in the 40s, at Nos. 48 and 49, respectively.
The last time before that when there were zero rap songs in the top 40 of the Hot 100? You have to go back all the way back to Feb. 2, 1990, when the top-ranking rap song was Biz Markie’s eventual top 10 hit “Just a Friend,” which had just climbed to No. 41 on the chart. The next week, “Just a Friend” jumped to 29, starting a Hot 100 streak of rap songs in the top 40 that would last for the next 35 years, eight months and three weeks.

8 comments:

Anonymous said...

That because the music is trash. LOLO

Anonymous said...

These fools been concentrating on making money and making mayhem instead of making music. Who listens to their crap?

No Chiraq said...

Not in my top 40 either

Anonymous said...

Hmm i guess cardi b has no hits then

Anonymous said...

Garbage is as garbage does. If you make soulless music with no effort, it becomes fodder.

Anonymous said...

Billboard Ain't Nobody! That "Old Grey Beard S***" Ain't Goin' Nowhere.

Anonymous said...

Ignorant music is dead.

Soft & Sweet said...

Everything goes out of favor eventually. New Country and K Pop is doing big things now.

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