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

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

[ViLaLuz]

Who can forget the Nikki Minaj classic: You a Stupid Hoe

You a stupid hoe, you a, you a stupid hoe
You a stupid hoe, you a, you a stupid hoe
You a stupid hoe, you a, you a stupid hoe
You a stupid hoe, yeah, you a, you a stupid hoe
You a stupid hoe, you a, you a stupid hoe (Stupid, stupid)
You a stupid hoe, you a, you a stupid hoe (You stupid, stupid)
You a stupid hoe, you a, you a stupid hoe (You stupid, stupid)
You a stupid hoe (You stupid, stupid), yeah, you a, you a stupid hoe (You stupid, stupid)

[lee martell]

It was written by Barry Gibbs, member of the Australian group The Bee Gees.

[mairdie]

Interesting. Hadn’t heard that one.

[Uncle Miltie]

What will ghetto youth be aspiring to now when they commit crimes?

[Pete from Shawnee Mission]

I think Greg Allman said it first.

[Lurker]

He’s even better now.

Too bad his dad isn’t around to see how well he’s done.

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[mowowie]

Beastie Boys Licensed to Ill and Paul’s Boutique
Run-D.M.C - Tougher than Leather
They were pretty good too...

[ChildOfThe60s]

Do you know what season and episode he was on?

My wife really likes to program and she would find it fun

[Bikkuri]

You should check out Enigma.

[Bonemaker]

Rap isn’t music.

[KarlInOhio]

But is the cure worse that the disease, like bringing kudzu in to fight soil erosion?

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.

What happens when 39 of the top 40 are by Taylor Swift?

[maddog55]

Finally some good news on the music front although Taylor Swift is bad enough.

[sgt_lau]

(Hot Rod Lincoln”, by Commander Cody & His Lost Planet Airmen, from 1971. The guitar riff draws you in and keeps you there.)

I’ve been playing guitar over 47 years and that guitar riff is one that I play regularly to keep my chops up. It’s challenging to play it correctly.

[FLT-bird]

I hated (c)rap from the first moment I heard it in the mid 1980s when I was in high school. I’ve been waiting for it to go the way of break dancing ever since.

(c)rap is bad rhymes I would have been embarrassed to come up with when I was in 3rd grade with a jackhammer in the background. Its not music. Its just noise.

[MayflowerMadam]

“I hated (c)rap from the first moment I heard it”

Ditto! Cheap and annoying “music”.

[central_va]

Drop the fake “twang” and I would be all in for country music. Take the Eagles, which is country rock without that silly “twang “ voice, they were good despite what Bridges said in that stupid movie.

[Thrownatbirth]

“Rappers Delight” by Sugar Hill Gang should have been the first and LAST rap song.

[MayflowerMadam]

The Eagles used to be my favorite group. Then I heard so many horrible things about Don Henley that I became disillusioned. Maybe they’re still my favorite, but with a shadow over them.

[central_va]

What did Henley do that was so bad?

[Z28.310]

As I actually hear the lyrics, reflect on the context and absorb the meaning of many songs, my taste in music has changed. Have become ashamed of myself that I used to enjoy some songs, which glorify infidelity and other sins.

Don’t care to sing along with evil notions and pollute my very soul.

Then again, I’m getting older.