No Rap Songs Are in the Billboard Hot 100’s Top 40 for the First Time Since 1990

[DlAMONDZ]

Drake dropped like 30+ songs this year and none of them stuck

All the young nikkas are Carti and Yeat clones

It's over. It was a good run

 

[DlAMONDZ]

That's a wierd change, should it not just be based solely on popularity as of the last week

90% of them were just hanging on becuase radio refused to move on. It was a good change imo

Nah it's a combo of streaming and Billboards own fukkery. They are letting legit popular songs fall off the charts because they are older than a year old under the pretense that it will allow new songs to join. In reality all it does is allow album drops to dominate the boards for a few weeks with no real impact.

Streaming is the reason why Hip hop got so big though. Before streaming, Drake couldn't get a #1 to save his life for example

 

[focusloco]

If there's no more hits....what kind of artists is urban radio playing RN?..I remember a while back they were playing poo sheisty and some chick that rapped about doing trick rolls in hotels...I tapped out after that

 

[Low End Derrick]

i told nikkas in 2015/2016 this shyt was over but nooooo bad and boujee went #1 so i was wrong.

there was no new sounds or styles coming out its been the same drum programming for a decade.

rest in peace

Only took 10 years for your prediction to come to fruition

 

[L $ C]

It’s a ton of stuff. But Drake vs Kendrick was absolutely awful for hip hop

 

[L $ C]

That era of the super super nonstop trap we went thru I think 2020-21 also I think turned a ton of people off to the genre. Lota guys I know middle age and white people were like yeah this is what’s hot now? I want old hip hop back this is trash

 

[focusloco]

That era of the super super nonstop trap we went thru I think 2020-21 also I think turned a ton of people off to the genre. Lota guys I know middle age and white people were like yeah this is what’s hot now? I want old hip hop back this is trash

Not to go ahmad on you but back in the day there was balance on the radio ....shyt they would play some Janet Pac Mariah Bone...etc ...I tuned in a few years back and it's just murder porn and young women talking about robbing folks

And that was at 5 in the morning on my way to work ...I couldn't do it

 

[L $ C]

Drake dropped like 30+ songs this year and none of them stuck

All the young nikkas are Carti and Yeat clones

It's over. It was a good run

He had the only rap hit that was released this year Nokia lol. But you’re still not wrong

 

[L $ C]

I don’t know why anyone in here takes this to mean music isn’t selling and the industry’s dead? Music isn’t the problem. The top 40 is full of R&B, country and dance music that’s clearly selling.

The problem is RAP music lacks star power, compelling stories and unique sounds that can keep your attention against all the other content available online.

Kendrick sells because he has all three. Whether you like him or not, YB has all three and that’s why he has the highest charting rap song on the top 100 right now.

It’s really simple. Rap has stagnated creatively and people aren’t loyal to any genre when all music is available in one place for the same price.

That copy and paste 160 BPM trap era ain’t it no more. Trying to bring back boom bap ain’t gonna cut it either. Ngas gonna need to pick up their pen and really come with something new or keep getting wiped down by these pop and country stars.

Lota truth here. The genre feels burnt out

 

[L $ C]

Yall are so funny. I made this thread half a year ago n got yelled at. Now it’s all oh yeah it’s faces. lol ok

 

[3rdWorld]

Hip hop purists dont fukk with it anymore as they can't recognise it anymore..and the kids that are left to run it dont inspire.

 

[MarcP]

15 years ago teenagers wanted to fukk off their life trying to be a rapper; in 2025 they're trying to be streamers.

 

[DlAMONDZ]

Quality aside, demo shifts are probably the biggest reason why rap is flopping right now. Spotify users have abandoned rap and all Amazon music users listen to is country and pop music. That's 2 of the 3 biggest streaming services in the US

All rap has is Apple Music. nikkas like Rod Wave and YB dominate AM but are invisible on Spotify and Amazon. If they could replicate even half of their AM performance on Spotify and Amazon, their songs would be in the top 10 right now

 

[GunRanger]

90% of them were just hanging on becuase radio refused to move on. It was a good change imo


Streaming is the reason why Hip hop got so big though. Before streaming, Drake couldn't get a #1 to save his life for example

Excluding the Rihanna songs, One Dance went #1 on album with 852k pure sales first week

 

[Gizmo_Duck]

People act as if hip hop would be in a better spot if it were low effort drake singles still charting lol

Like I said there haven’t really been new genuine superstars since the early 2010s shyt was bound to fizzle out