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Pop Goes Hip-Hop: Take Rap’s “Exit” From Billboard’s Top 40 With A Grain Of Salt

The highest appearance by a hip-hop song is YoungBoy Never Broke Again’s “Shot Callin,” at No. 44. Yet in 1990, hip-hop was still in its keeping-it-real phase. Biz’s pop chart ascendence (rap’s ...
American Songwriter

3 Eternal 1990s Rap Songs that Have Stood the Test of Time

The genre of hip-hop was kicked off in the 1970s in the public parks in New York City. There, DJs would plug their setups into public light fixtures and supply the neighborhood with party music, ...
The News International

Billboard Hot 100 sees first rap-free top 40 since 1990

For the first time in 35 years, there are no rap songs in the Billboard Hot 100’s top 40. The shift came after Kendrick Lamar ...
Post and Courier

COLUMN: My love of words is a tribute to 1990s rap music

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 ...