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No Rap Songs Have Cracked the Billboard Top 10 in Almost a Year
Posted on 6/26/26 at 2:28 am
Posted on 6/26/26 at 2:28 am
Saw this going around social media, so I decided to verify. Not much is being written but I did find this article from April.
I'm old, and modern rap just doesn't appeal to me. The lyricism and word play that made it interesting when I was younger are lacking or...I'm just old and white and nerdy.
But I can remember in the 90s and 00s rap was at least 5-7/10 Billboard Top Ten hits every week.
Why the fall off?
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I'm old, and modern rap just doesn't appeal to me. The lyricism and word play that made it interesting when I was younger are lacking or...I'm just old and white and nerdy.
But I can remember in the 90s and 00s rap was at least 5-7/10 Billboard Top Ten hits every week.
Why the fall off?
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According to a statistic circulating online, the genre has now gone nine straight months without placing a song in the Top 10 of the Billboard Hot 100, a streak that underscores a noticeable shift in mainstream music trends.
The last hip-hop track to break into that tier was Drake’s “What Did I Miss?” back in July 2025. Since then, no rap release has managed to crack the upper echelon of the chart, a rarity for a genre that has dominated streaming and radio for much of the past decade.
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Posted on 6/26/26 at 2:41 am to PurpleandGold Motown
Rap sucks? Let’s start there.
This post was edited on 6/26/26 at 2:42 am
Posted on 6/26/26 at 3:08 am to PurpleandGold Motown
All the rap "artist" are still making millions.
Posted on 6/26/26 at 3:19 am to PurpleandGold Motown
Must be a numbers game. Seems like the BR media reports a rapper being shot every other week at least.
Posted on 6/26/26 at 3:33 am to PurpleandGold Motown
Maybe because rap music is poison for the mind...
Anyways, here's some Mozart I heard on the classical station on the way to the office this week...
Anyways, here's some Mozart I heard on the classical station on the way to the office this week...
Posted on 6/26/26 at 3:58 am to PurpleandGold Motown
I would like to know how many of their sales in its heyday were from very white kids who had no knowledge of the culture. Maybe “fatigue” has something to do with this.
Posted on 6/26/26 at 4:22 am to PurpleandGold Motown
America is still trying to figure out what Kendrick Lamar mumbled in Super Bowl 59 in New Orleans with his dis tracks, followed up by the WTF performance of Bad Bunny in this year’s Super Bowl that you needed a translator or subtitles to understand. So, Rap can die a slow death.
Posted on 6/26/26 at 5:28 am to PurpleandGold Motown
USAID money got cutoff.
Posted on 6/26/26 at 5:48 am to PurpleandGold Motown
When I hear rap from recent years, it sounds like the song is a demo that’s using a placeholder music track that came from a free mobile app.
Where’s the music production?
Where’s the music production?
Posted on 6/26/26 at 5:57 am to PurpleandGold Motown
Drake just had 9/10 a couple of weeks ago
Posted on 6/26/26 at 6:10 am to PurpleandGold Motown
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No Rap Songs Have Cracked the Billboard Top 10 in Almost a Year
They all sound exactly the same now.
Mumble, mumble, repetitive beat, mumble.
Posted on 6/26/26 at 7:20 am to PurpleandGold Motown
Music tastes and preferences change over time and it won't be any different for rap music. Something will eventually replace it as the mainstream just like it replaced rock music. Change is one of the few constants in life, it's inevitable
Posted on 6/26/26 at 7:52 am to Recognizable Poster
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Anyways, here's some Mozart I heard on the classical station on the way to the office this week...
I have no idea how anyone could down vote that. Absolutely gorgeous.
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