Taylor, Sir Paul and Shady combine to create a chart first (kind of)…
(December 28, 2020). There may be prior instances of what this article is about to cover, but this blogger doubts it. Besides, I’m not prepared to do the exhaustive 60-plus…
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Eminem album at No. 3, but a quirk keeps his No. 1 streak alive; Hip-hop albums experience longest No. 1 drought in FIVE years!
(December 27, 2020). The year 2020 hasn’t yet ended, but hip-hop music will likely top all other genres in consumption percentage for the fourth year in a row when the…
Immediate reactions to SiriusXM’s Top 1000 Hip Hop Songs of All Time countdown… What they got right – and wrong
(June 20, 2020). As many of the blog’s readers know, SiriusXM has been running genre-specific, all-time Top 1000 countdowns on channel 177 for the past several weeks. This week it’s…
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The Rainbow of Rap – a look at Hip-Hop’s growing ethnic diversity at the top
(May 17, 2020). In what was once considered mainly a domain for African-American men, could rap and hip-hop actually be the most diverse genre in popular music today? With this…
Eminem shreds the Oscars with 17-year-old “Lose Yourself”; audience does just that…
(February 10, 2020). By many accounts, “Lose Yourself” is still one of legendary rapper Eminem’s best tracks, if not the best. But even that didn’t begin to explain why the…