Megan Thee Stallion Ends the First Top 40 Rap Drought Since 1990

This marks the first rap song to reach the top 40 since Kendrick Lamar and SZA ’s “Luther” on the October 18 listing, a significant return for the genre after no rap songs appeared in the top 40 for ...

Rap Is Back in Hot 100 Top 40 After Two-Week Absence, Thanks to Megan Thee Stallion

For the back-to-back Billboard Hot 100 charts this year dated Oct. 25 and Nov. 1, no rap songs appeared in the top 40 — marking the first times since the Feb. 3, 1990 chart that the genre was totally ...
Stereogum

For Better And Sometimes Worse, Dave’s New Album Takes You To Church

The potency of Dave’s message is generally enough to make you appreciate the Good Word. Part confession, part sermon, he ...
Hip-Hop Wired

Again? NLE Choppa Takes Shots At NBA YoungBoy In New Song

Since Day 1, the Memphis rapper has always been compared to NBA YoungBoy. His breakthrough song, “Shotta Flow,” is what got him recognized nationally. but also started the YB comparisons. During ...

NLE Choppa Has Some Words for NBA YoungBoy on His New Single ‘KO’

NLE also mentions one the current era’s biggest acts, NBA YoungBoy, by name, rapping, “Youngboy what this the big boy league/Put one in the gut under the Jesus piece/Last thing that I heard was Jesus ...