Billboard "Hot Rap Songs" Polygraph is brilliant (MUST SEE)

[IllmaticDelta]

that's actually dope af


that battle between flava in ya ear and tootsee roll in fall of 94


then big poppa came in and swooped up another W for bad boy

then pac looking like and drops dear mama


crazy to see and hear them in succession like this

after hearing some of these yall golden era nikkas can NEVER say that dumb shyt about this generation. you had some hot garbage charting every year[/QUOTE]

 

[bouncy]

Spoiler

Rap starts to get iffy by 97, from 98-00 you get a bit of 'comeback' while Will Smith, Bow Wow, Nelly start coming to the forefront. Random hip hop 'jingle tunes' from Ying Yang Twins and 504 Boyz. Then 2001 onwards it dips.

That's why I always say 1996 was the last year for real hip hop. If you didn't live during that time, you wouldn't understand. Even NYC was a different place.

When 1997 hit, the city changed, and the music changed. I will never forget that year, because that's when I changed

 

[bouncy]

I remember Tootsie Roll as a kid, they used to play it at dances and house parties

Never would have that it was an actual number one single

Tootsie roll was THE shyt down south. That little fast electronic beat sound gave hits like "daisy dukes", and "whoop there its".

That's when people danced at the party

 

[Saint1]

Fair.

Besides, we don't really know how this is measured nor the intricacies of how it works.

It says "From 1989 through 2001, [Hot Rap Songs] was calculated weekly by airplay on rhythmic and urban radio stations and sales in hip hop-focused or exclusive markets, and.was based on how much the single sold in that given week"

I got into Jay-Z because of "Can I Get A". That's how huge that song was.

These charts are weird because I remember hearing that song everywhere. People were getting tired of it and it went 5x Platinum.

According to Billboard Jay only has 5 #1 singles and they all feature an R&B singer. Jay-Z's 20 Biggest Billboard Hits | Billboard




long story short the charts ain't shyt.

 

[SirBiatch]

@MVike28

 

[MVike28]

@MVike28

My bad breh i'll ask mods to delete.

 

[Young/Nacho\Drawz]

That page keeps crashing my browser for some reason and in another browser the audio wont play.

 

[Taadow]

Mayne...Ion care what nobody say, '95-2000 was my chit.

I didn't know "Pushin' Weight", "Take It To The Streets", or "Cold Rock A Party" stayed on so high for so long...
knew "Whistle While You Twurk" was a monster. That was an instant classic...

 

[Taadow]

Daaaamn...I didn't know "Baby If You're Ready" stayed at #1 so long either! That was my beat, doe...

"Dollaz, Drank & Dank", too...we was mobbin' to that chit on graduation night. lol

 

[Da Rhythm Rebel]

This is dope!

 

[MVike28]

mayne that bad boy flatline at the top of the charts brehs

just CHOKE HOLD on 97

I bought every single album that year i even bought the can't nobody hold me single CD

 

[Taadow]

Bruh...I legit don't remember a lot of the songs listed during late-'01 to early '02...


And I can't believe "Give It Up To Me" and "I Know You See It' was ten years ago...I was singing the latter
with my dude at work a couple weeks ago...

 

[letti cook]

at the Pac/Big battle in 95

 

[OfTheCross]

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.

Cool link

 

[OfTheCross]

Gotdamn at how commercialized the top Rap songs became after 2000