You can learn a lot by just looking at this shyt: How the sound changed over almost 30 years. And for those who like to analyze "runs", this is cold hard data that shows you what date/month/year a rapper started getting in the top 10 and you can see how often the rapper appears over a period of time.
This is what Hip Hop's Billboard top 10 sounded like, back in 1995
*you can actually scroll back to 1989*
Things I find extremely interesting
1. How Bad Boy strangled the game. It came to the point that Puffy would release a song from the label and it went straight to #1
2. Where's Eminem, the GOAT rapper?
How do you explain "The Real Slim Shady" being #11 tops on the Rap Billboard (wasn't shown on polygraph because it was too low), but being #4 in the country?
Em with that real hip hop
Compare that to Luda who had the #1 song on the Rap charts and the country at one point with "Stand Up". Yeah, hip hop fans actually liked that song.
Your negs are much appreciated.
3. Wow at how Missy dominated with that Hot Boyz song
4. Wow at 50's run in that GRODT era
5. Look at the top 10 rap songs start changing after 2000. Notice how RnB and Black pop records start infiltrating. So when old flabby heads say hip hop went pop in the 2000s, they're not making shyt up to spite you. The trend is clear as day.
6. The bottom line is that radio-friendly hip hop songs aren't the stuff we remember 15-20 years down the line. There is always a bigger audience for watered down stuff versus real shyt. However, notice how Nas, Wu and other 'real rappers' show up on the polygraph. They're not #1, but they clearly made songs that caught some attention without sacrificing their art.
Like I always say: You can't claim to be a really dope rapper and no one listens to your shyt.
7. Some
one-hit wonders I never even heard of at #1. And they were WACK
Feel free to add other observations.
This is what Hip Hop's Billboard top 10 sounded like, back in 1995
*you can actually scroll back to 1989*
Things I find extremely interesting
1. How Bad Boy strangled the game. It came to the point that Puffy would release a song from the label and it went straight to #1
2. Where's Eminem, the GOAT rapper?
How do you explain "The Real Slim Shady" being #11 tops on the Rap Billboard (wasn't shown on polygraph because it was too low), but being #4 in the country?
Em with that real hip hop
Compare that to Luda who had the #1 song on the Rap charts and the country at one point with "Stand Up". Yeah, hip hop fans actually liked that song.
Your negs are much appreciated.
3. Wow at how Missy dominated with that Hot Boyz song
4. Wow at 50's run in that GRODT era
5. Look at the top 10 rap songs start changing after 2000. Notice how RnB and Black pop records start infiltrating. So when old flabby heads say hip hop went pop in the 2000s, they're not making shyt up to spite you. The trend is clear as day.
6. The bottom line is that radio-friendly hip hop songs aren't the stuff we remember 15-20 years down the line. There is always a bigger audience for watered down stuff versus real shyt. However, notice how Nas, Wu and other 'real rappers' show up on the polygraph. They're not #1, but they clearly made songs that caught some attention without sacrificing their art.
Like I always say: You can't claim to be a really dope rapper and no one listens to your shyt.
7. Some
one-hit wonders I never even heard of at #1. And they were WACKFeel free to add other observations.
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get a life my nikka
I think a song's popularity has more to do with its catchiness than its actual respect of the art
