Hip-hop has officially exited the upper echelon of the Billboard Hot 100 chart for the first time in more than three decades. The top 40 of the iconic chart currently contains zero rap songs, marking ...

Hip-hop and rap have been driving culture in the U.S. for almost four decades now, especially in America. So why are these songs missing from the Top 40? It's ...complicated.

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 ...

A small YouTube Music update today lets you conveniently “Play all” the songs in select carousels on your Home feed. YouTube Music offers two main carousel types, with the first consisting of albums ...

Razor-sharp synths. Euphoric electronic leads. Chest-thumping 808s. Distorted vocals drenched in autotune. Welcome to the world of rage rap, a subgenre of hip-hop that’s had its moment thanks to the ...

On August 11, 1973, Cindy Campbell threw a back-to-school party at 1520 Sedgwick Avenue in the Bronx. Her brother Clive, better known as DJ Kool Herc, was enlisted to DJ, and he used the occasion to ...

For the chart's 35th anniversary, we review all of the chart's year-end No. 1 winners. By Trevor Anderson Since Billboard first began its national survey of song sales in the 1940s, the ever-changing ...

Gross creative ineptitude is a fragile, endangered spirit, that when encountered, we must cheer and encourage. (Credit: BSIP/UIG Via Getty Images) Music this imbecilic cannot be made on purpose. It is ...

The Alchemist has added his two cents on the topic that had Rap Twitter in a frenzy this week.