Here are Pitchfork’s 40 best rap songs of 2025. Check out all of Pitchfork’s 2025 wrap-up coverage here. When Wham ( Lil Baby ...

All of which is to say that if you were looking for chart-topping hits this year, you might’ve been disappointed, but if you ...

*The week of October 25, 2025, marked an unprecedented setback for hip-hop: according to The AV Club, no rap songs made the Billboard Hot 100 Top 40. The long-running hit “Luther” by SZA and Kendrick ...

For the first time in more than 35 years, no rap songs appear in the Billboard Hot 100’s top 40. Kendrick Lamar’s “Luther” has dropped off the chart, ending an unbroken run that began in February 1990 ...

Yesterday, Billboard deputy editor and Stereogum buddy Andrew Unterberger published a piece with some confusing implications: On last week's Billboard Hot 100, there were no rap songs in the top 40.

Technically, Up My Standards is a mixtape, but it sounds more like one long radio freestyle. The only moments where Philly’s ...

The story of Drake fading and a lyrical resurgence is also the story of hip-hop falling away from its commercial peak while ...

For the past couple of weeks, there’s been a lot of chatter about a lack of rap songs in the top 40 of the Billboard Hot 100 chart. Since the publication changed the rules to promote more movement on ...

Here is a recap of Billboard Boxscore's top 10 rap tours of 2025, featuring Travis Scott, Wu-Tang Clan and more.

Everybody is saying Hip-Hop is down because there is no single in the Top 40 of the Billboard Hot 100 chart. In all honesty, so what? Weighing in on the news is legendary producer The Alchemist, ...

It’s going to take some time to rebuild the 35-year streak that was broken when updates to the Billboard Hot 100 rules led to the departure of Kendrick Lamar and SZA‘s “Luther,” leaving the Top 40 ...

*The week of October 25, 2025, marked an unprecedented setback for hip-hop: according to The AV Club, no rap songs made the Billboard Hot 100 Top 40. Billboard links some of this change to new ...