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Posted on 10/30/2025 6:21:45 PM PDT by CondoleezzaProtege
For the first time in more than three decades, not a single rap song ranks among the 40 most popular tracks in America.
Last week's Billboard Hot 100 marked the end of a remarkable 35-year streak, after Kendrick Lamar and SZA's "Luther" - a 13-week No. 1 hit - dropped off the chart. With that departure, the genre that once dominated the nation's listening habits found itself completely absent from the chart's upper tier.
Not since February 1990 has the Billboard Hot 100 gone without a rap entry in its upper ranks.
The gap has been widened by Taylor Swift's "The Life of a Showgirl," which has kept all 12 of its songs in the top 40 for three weeks.
Beyond technicalities, the lull points to a deeper shift. Hip-hop's market share - once nearly 30% in 2020 - has slipped to 24% this year. Two years ago, eight rap songs sat in the top 40, while just five years ago, there were 16.
Meanwhile, pop and country acts have borrowed from hip-hop's rhythms and swagger - sometimes blurring the boundaries so completely that the sound persists even when the artists themselves aren't rappers
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Brilliant .
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cmMILaTCOT8&list=RDcmMILaTCOT8&start_radio=1
Best rap ever by Hank Williams Jr. Born to Boogie
From my memory hole; I THINK this is accurate:
In 1980, he forced the group to perform FREE at a political event in support of Democrat Alan Cranston. I think it was Felder who strenuously objected. Felder and Frey got into a huge fight. Maybe this was when the band had a huge split.
Henley is an obnoxious mouthy liberal all the time.
Here’s a link to the season opener.
https://youtu.be/M59clSJJf9I?si=gcXfCZebNLaS-4-0
My brother passed from cancer about 8 months after the season ended.
I miss him terribly.
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I’ve always thought rap was made for black guys that can’t sing (looking at you Snoop dog) and white guys that can’t dance.
I don’t care about the politics of my artists.
I’m distraught. /s
I was part of a poetry writer’s group back in the 70s. When rap came along, it destroyed our open mike nights.
Rap does appear briefly in The UK Blessing video that has been circulating in the midst of their almost civil war over immigration and globalism.
Rap shouldn’t even qualify for listing on any “music” charts.
And the background music is computer generated.
But there was so much more good music around then to choose from.
12 songs from one Taylor Swift album in the top 40? That never happened in the 60’s to 80’s.
I would have thought The Beatles might have pulled something like that off.
We arrive at The Singularity.
“But there was so much more good music around then to choose from.”
For her to have 12 it must mean there isn’t much good music today.
Yep, she’s the big fish in the little pond. Most kids today don’t even listen to modern music, they listen to the ‘classics’.
20 #1 hits is pretty good, enough for a CD.
What’s funny is that anytime they do a release of a Beatles compilation, even though it’s the same songs you’ve heard thousands of times, it outsells any of the new stuff.
Also why people shelve out the big bucks to see Paul McCartney, even though his voice is shot.
Like me. He does hire a great back up band.
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