Rap music just vanished from the Billboard Top 40 for the first time in 35 years

Billboard/Yahoo! ^ | Oct 30, 2025 | Aidin Vaziri

[ek_hornbeck]

To be music, something needs melody and harmony. Rap has neither. Just a beat or rhythm don't make music, otherwise a jackhammer would be a great musical instrument.

I'm glad that rap is fading in popularity, though that being said, the anodyne youth market pop that's clogging up the airwaves now is only marginally better.

[newfreep]

Joe Walsh’s brother-in-law was a drummer for a small quartet from the UK.

IIRC, his band mates called him Ringo...

[SamAdams76]

Rap was a very ugly and angry genre of music.

For over 50 years, I have listened to virtually all other genres of music and find plenty to like in all.

But rap just makes me want to break into a Best Buy and drag out a big-screen TV.

[Noumenon]

Yes, we sing that around the city Christmas tree every year now. So uplifting.

[AFB-XYZ]

the anodyne youth market pop that's clogging up the airwaves now

Agreed. Sounds to me like just a bunch of infected adenoids.

[minnesota_bound]

Country rap is still @rap!
Begone rap noise.

[ChildOfThe60s]

The Last Boy Scout (1991), when the villain, Milo, tells Bruce Willis’ character, “You think you’re so f—ing cool. But just once, I would like to hear you scream … in pain.” Willis quipped, “Then play some rap music.”

[ek_hornbeck]

Most youth market pop sounds like something chatgpt could easily put together.