No hip hop song or album has reached number one in 2023

[I'm Blackman]

For me personally i still listen to rap but only in the gym. Its too much murder murder kill kill vibrations for me to consume as much as i used to.

I think Nipsey’s death was the last straw for me. The music just feels empty and wasteful.

I been heavy on R&B, Country and Podcasts when I'm not in the gym and listening to something.

This for me too.

As a 40 year Godly man...I don't want tp hear murder music anymore. The rap I listen to now is pretty much 5 to 10 rappers I've listened to my whole life and I now listen to a select few albums of there's. I understand how music programs and affects us now, so I'm much more conscious of what I consume.

If my favorites drop ill check it out, but outside of that, the generes lost me overall.

Most of my music listening is R and B, gospel, jazz, and Funk. So like 10 percent rap and that 10 percent is very selective. I was a rap baby to the core so I never thought it'd be like that.

But with my listening habits and podcasts and audio books taking up my time. My reaction to this thread is

 

[Mowgli]

I just wanna rock nihks.

Dudes rather dance like Russian leprechauns

 

[CrimsonTider]

Almost entirely thanks to Apple Music

How long can they keep pushing random rappers nobody outside a city of 100k has ever heard of up their charts like they do?

I don’t get what you’re asking

 

[CrimsonTider]

This for me too.

As a 40 year Godly man...I don't want tp hear murder music anymore. The rap I listen to now is pretty much 5 to 10 rappers I've listened to my whole life and I now listen to a select few albums of there's. I understand how music programs and affects us now, so I'm much more conscious of what I consume.

If my favorites drop ill check it out, but outside of that, the generes lost me overall.

Most of my music listening is R and B, gospel, jazz, and Funk. So like 10 percent rap and that 10 percent is very selective. I was a rap baby to the core so I never thought it'd be like that.

But with my listening habits and podcasts and audio books taking up my time. My reaction to this thread is

Who are these 5 to 10 rappers

 

[Dre Space Age]

 

[Low End Derrick]

Most rappers are ass and they're flooding the industry with ass. I don't wanna listen to the low effort bullshyt that's being dropped by these artists, if I don't got my Spotify going in the car I'd rather drive in silence. This isn't no old head, music was better in the 90's ass statement either, I was enjoying rap up until a few years ago. Now though...I'll listen to Afrobeats before I listen to rap.

High key R&B is cooked too but we can leave that for a different thread.

 

[Diyhai]

This is similar to what dancehall music is facing. When the content is so explicit and vulgar it loses its dominance. Most rap songs you can't even play at a fundraiser or it would be like 5 seconds worth of bleeps at a time

yall reasoning is hilarious
like hiphop aint been super explicit for the last 30 yrs

 

[CrimsonTider]

Nas Nerds love this picture

 

[boogers]

Thank god for 90s rap

i feel like it lasted until 2014 or so. early 2000s still had classics, and while i feel embarrassed to even type 'the blog rap era' there were some decent artists coming out of that, too. i dont hear anything unique now. i cant tell new artists apart.

sampling has gotten lazier too. the last 2 khaled songs i unfortunately remember were just bites of outkast and santana. i love creative sampling, but that fat fukk just googled 'outkast instrumental' and you can tell. sorry for getting off track but i really hate dj khaled for some reason

now get off my lawn everyone

 

[PHamm]

i feel like it lasted until 2014 or so. early 2000s still had classics, and while i feel embarrassed to even type 'the blog rap era' there were some decent artists coming out of that, too. i dont hear anything unique now. i cant tell new artists apart.

sampling has gotten lazier too. the last 2 khaled songs i unfortunately remember were just bites of outkast and santana. i love creative sampling, but that fat fukk just googled 'outkast instrumental' and you can tell. sorry for getting off track but i really hate dj khaled for some reason

now get off my lawn everyone

I agree with a lot of this.

I also feel that production completely fell off after 2010. How can beats from the 90s and 2000s sound more clear crisp than than the new shyt? You would think with technological advances that production would have improved. Do producers even layer beats any more ?

 

[Dynamite James]

Before the come in here whining about the culture

Yall dont support the real. This is partially yall fault. The youth and the taste makers. It's way bigger than "no one makes good music anymore"

Yall don't appreciate the good music that's made. That's why it's not broadcasted. That's why the artists who make bullshyt make it

"I could rhyme like Common Sense......."

This JID record is everything yall say isn't in the mainstream anymore. One of the many quality albums that came out in the past year. How come it didn't go Gold?










Exactly

Trash

 

[DANJ!]

What happened to Rock is slowly happening to Rap. You are seeing the beginning of Rap no longer being the dominant genre in music.

...because during the course of six months of a calendar year, it isn't #1 on Billboard?

Yeah, I wouldn't jump the gun on this just yet. Lil' Durk is not remotely Miley Cyrus/Taylor Swift type popular. If he was the biggest rapper with a new release so far this year, that's why. I'ma be ready for us to revisit this topic when Cole, Cardi, or Drake drop an album.

And even if it's not the dominant genre this year, I don't even care to be honest... can we just get some great gotdamn music, it's all I want!

 

[A Pimp Named Slickback]

This for me too.

As a 40 year Godly man...I don't want tp hear murder music anymore. The rap I listen to now is pretty much 5 to 10 rappers I've listened to my whole life and I now listen to a select few albums of there's. I understand how music programs and affects us now, so I'm much more conscious of what I consume.

If my favorites drop ill check it out, but outside of that, the generes lost me overall.

Most of my music listening is R and B, gospel, jazz, and Funk. So like 10 percent rap and that 10 percent is very selective. I was a rap baby to the core so I never thought it'd be like that.

But with my listening habits and podcasts and audio books taking up my time. My reaction to this thread is

Listen to Dee-1. He's dope. KB, and Hulvey too

 

[Dynamite James]

As the halfway point of 2023 approaches, hip-hophas yet to grace the top of either the Billboard Hot 100 or the Billboard 200 albums chart.

Hip-hop has been curiously absent from the top of Billboard’smarquee album and singles charts. While each of the four albums released in 2023 that have hit No. 1 — The Name Chapter: Temptation (Tomorrow X Together), Mañana Será Bonito (Karol G) and One Thing at a Time (Morgan Wallen), and 5-STAR (Stray Kids) — have clear hip-hop influences, none are by traditional rappers, the longest we’ve gone into a calendar year without a rap album at No. 1 since 1993. Hip-hop hasn’t fared much better on the Hot 100 this year; just six hip-hop singles have cracked the chart’s top ten.

Here are five reasons why hip-hop has yet to produce a No. 1 album or single this year.

1. A Not-So-Starry Night

It’s a lot more difficult for any genre to reach the top spot when their most popular and reliable artists are not releasing projects.

2. Views From the Top

It is well-known that hip-hop has reigned as the biggest commercial genre in the United States since 2018. Current tallies for this year show that the genre remains the country’s biggest music: In fact, R&B and hip-hop is up 6.3% in overall units this year compared to 2022. Nonetheless, it is slowly losing its dominance in terms of market share.

3. Old Opps & New Opps

Part of the reason hip-hop has struggled to truly cement a new class of superstars is that some of the genre’s most promising talents have fallen victim to gun violence, incarceration, drug abuse, or excessive police surveillance.

4. Chart Stagnation

To cut hip-hop a bit of slack, the genre’s absence at the top of the charts this year is also due, in part, to how relatively stagnant the charts have been.

5. A Gradual Return to the Club Scene

If there is any genre that is well-equipped to adapt to change, it is hip-hop — and the genre already seems to be angling itself toward its next pivot….Most of hip-hop’s biggest records in recent years deprioritized the dancefloor, but that is already changing.

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[JustCKing]

Miley Cyrus

If a rapper did Miley Cyrus numbers, everyone would be calling it a flop. How exactly does she have a chokehold on anything?

119K sold in week one with 55K being pure sales. It has been out for three months now with no certification besides one in New Zealand. Yeah, she had a #1 single. Let Drake or Beyonce have a #1 single and do those numbers and there would be clowning and NO ONE would be saying they had a chokehold on anything.

Adding to the fact, "Flowers" is the biggest song Miley Cyrus has had in nearly a full decade. She definitely isn't Taylor Swift or Morgan Wallen status. It's rappers bigger than Miley Cyrus.