As one long-running hip-hop smash goes recurrent on the chart, the Hot 100's top 40 does not boast a single rap song, ending ...

Hip-Hop on Pause? Not One Rap Song in Billboard’s Top 40 for the First Time Since 1990 For the first time since February 1990, no rap songs are in the Billboard Hot 100’s top 40. This happened after ...

For the first time since 1990, the Top 40 of Billboard's Hot 100 chart is completely devoid of any hip-hop and/or rap songs.

Music boasts many powers, many special abilities. One of those is its chance to transport the listener back to a different time. Want to feel the vibrant 1960s? Put on early Bob Dylan. The strange ...

Yesterday, Billboard deputy editor and Stereogum buddy Andrew Unterberger published a piece with some confusing implications: ...

Some believe the 1990s was the golden era of rap music. Though the genre was created in the late 1970s in the parks of New York City and later honed in the 1980s thanks to groups like Run-DMC and the ...

Billboard Hot 100 has no rap songs in the Top 40 for the first time since 1990 following rule changes that knocked Kendrick Lamar from the chart.

What came first, the chicken or the egg? I often ask myself similar questions but with words or rap music. Do I love words because of rap music or rap music because of the words? I’m 44 and no closer ...

Jermarcus Johnson, the fourth man accused in the murder of rapper Young Dolph, made his first court appearance at 201 Poplar Tuesday morning. Johnson is charged with conspiracy to commit first-degree ...

Shangri-La Records' "Lo-Fi in Hi-Fi" series returns for a second season, celebrating 1990s Memphis hip-hop. The series will be held at the B-Side venue in Minglewood Hall and livestreamed. Each month ...

Billboard's recent change in threshold for songs to remain in the top 40 of the Hot 100 list booted Kendrick Lamar and SZA's ...

For the first time since February 1990, the Billboard Hot 100 ’s top 40 section contained zero rap songs on the chart dated ...