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Rap Music Has About 8 Weeks to Turn This Historically Bad Stat Around

October 11, 2026 DJ Rob

In 1988, zero rappers reached the Billboard Hot 100's top 10. In 2026, only Drake has done it as a lead artist. With about eight realistic chart weeks left, hip-hop…

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Jingle Bars: How two Billboard journalists and echoes of Chic’s ‘Good Times’ merged to create the first Christmas rap

December 23, 2023 DJ Rob

The unlikely story of how two Billboard journalists left their job to create the first Christmas rap record for Kurtis Blow

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#HipHop50: The records that started hip-hop were NOT ‘Rapper’s Delight’ or ‘King Tim III’; they weren’t even rap…check ‘em out

August 17, 2023 DJ Rob

(August 17, 2023). While many people credit Sugar Hill Gang’s groundbreaking 1979 smash “Rapper’s Delight” with being the song that changed the game for rap music and, by extension, hip-hop,…

Rap Music Has About 8 Weeks to Turn This Historically Bad Stat Around

Jingle Bars: How two Billboard journalists and echoes of Chic’s ‘Good Times’ merged to create the first Christmas rap

#HipHop50: The records that started hip-hop were NOT ‘Rapper’s Delight’ or ‘King Tim III’; they weren’t even rap…check ‘em out

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Rap Music Has About 8 Weeks to Turn This Historically Bad Stat Around

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