{"id":700912,"date":"2025-11-27T18:30:18","date_gmt":"2025-11-27T15:30:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/raps-chart-decline-proves-its-still-a-radical-art-form-2\/"},"modified":"2025-11-27T18:30:18","modified_gmt":"2025-11-27T15:30:18","slug":"raps-chart-decline-proves-its-still-a-radical-art-form-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/raps-chart-decline-proves-its-still-a-radical-art-form-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Rap\u2019s chart decline proves it\u2019s still a radical art form"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_85 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a30a342490a6\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a30a342490a6\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/raps-chart-decline-proves-its-still-a-radical-art-form-2\/#Hip-hop_was_born_as_an_inherently_outsider_form_Its_functioning_exactly_as_its_supposed_to\" >Hip-hop was born as an inherently outsider form. It\u2019s functioning exactly as it\u2019s supposed to.<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h2 class=\"deck\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Hip-hop_was_born_as_an_inherently_outsider_form_Its_functioning_exactly_as_its_supposed_to\"><\/span>Hip-hop was born as an inherently outsider form. It\u2019s functioning exactly as it\u2019s supposed to.<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><\/p>\n<div class=\"content_blocks\">\n<style>\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-275977\" class=\"content_block paragraph image triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left center_align\">\n<div class=\"content_inner_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"media_wrapper\">\n<p>  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_760,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/youngboy-never-broke-again-photo-by-imrichporter_x7vcck\/youngboy-never-broke-again.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_220,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/youngboy-never-broke-again-photo-by-imrichporter_x7vcck\/youngboy-never-broke-again.jpg 220w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_300,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/youngboy-never-broke-again-photo-by-imrichporter_x7vcck\/youngboy-never-broke-again.jpg 300w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_400,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/youngboy-never-broke-again-photo-by-imrichporter_x7vcck\/youngboy-never-broke-again.jpg 400w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_600,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/youngboy-never-broke-again-photo-by-imrichporter_x7vcck\/youngboy-never-broke-again.jpg 600w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_750,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/youngboy-never-broke-again-photo-by-imrichporter_x7vcck\/youngboy-never-broke-again.jpg 750w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_840,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/youngboy-never-broke-again-photo-by-imrichporter_x7vcck\/youngboy-never-broke-again.jpg 840w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_960,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/youngboy-never-broke-again-photo-by-imrichporter_x7vcck\/youngboy-never-broke-again.jpg 960w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_1260,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/youngboy-never-broke-again-photo-by-imrichporter_x7vcck\/youngboy-never-broke-again.jpg 1260w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_1800,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/youngboy-never-broke-again-photo-by-imrichporter_x7vcck\/youngboy-never-broke-again.jpg 1800w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_2400,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/youngboy-never-broke-again-photo-by-imrichporter_x7vcck\/youngboy-never-broke-again.jpg 2400w,\" sizes=\"60vw\" alt=\"Rap\u2019s chart decline proves it\u2019s still a radical art form\"><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"img_caption\"><\/p>\n<p>    <span class=\"caption\"><br \/>\n      YoungBoy Never Broke Again.<br \/>\n    <\/span><\/p>\n<p>  <span class=\"credit\"><br \/>\n      \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>      Photo by @imrichporter  <\/p>\n<p>  <\/span><\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<style>\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-275973\" class=\"content_block paragraph text triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left center_align\">\n<div class=\"content_inner_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"paragraph_wrapper center_align\">\n<p>\n            During the week of October 25 through November 1, for the first time in 35 years, no rap songs <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>eared on Billboard\u2019s top 40. For many, it signaled the death knell of <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_new\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2025\/10\/30\/entertainment\/rap-falls-out-top-40\">hip-hop\u2019s slow<\/a>, but imminent, <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_new\" href=\"https:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/hip-hop-decline-music-billboard-1896490\">decline<\/a>.\n          <\/p>\n<div class=\"\" style=\"padding-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; text-align: left;\">\n<\/div>\n<p>\n            According to Billboard, the reason was, in part, due to a new rule change effected for its 2026 chart year, which forces out songs that have spent 26 weeks on the chart and fall below No. 25. But rap wasn\u2019t exactly thriving before that. Only one song, Kendrick Lamar and SZA\u2019s \u201cluther,\u201d stood in the way of its disappearance. Billboard reported that hip-hop has been experiencing a \u201cdip in commercial dominance\u201d for years \u2013 its market share reaching a peak of 30% in 2020, and staying stagnant at 24% for all of 2025 so far. Rap, as some would have it, has transformed into a ghost of its formerly mass-marketable self.\n          <\/p>\n<p>\n            But I would argue that this \u201cdip\u201d is actually a good thing.\n          <\/p>\n<div class=\"\" style=\"padding-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; text-align: left;\">\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<style>\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-275979\" class=\"content_block paragraph image triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left center_align\">\n<div class=\"content_inner_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"media_wrapper\">\n<p>  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_760,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/Photo_Credit__Rich_Porter_imrichporter_i44gjk\/youngboy-never-broke-again-on-tour-in-2025.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_220,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/Photo_Credit__Rich_Porter_imrichporter_i44gjk\/youngboy-never-broke-again-on-tour-in-2025.jpg 220w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_300,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/Photo_Credit__Rich_Porter_imrichporter_i44gjk\/youngboy-never-broke-again-on-tour-in-2025.jpg 300w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_400,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/Photo_Credit__Rich_Porter_imrichporter_i44gjk\/youngboy-never-broke-again-on-tour-in-2025.jpg 400w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_600,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/Photo_Credit__Rich_Porter_imrichporter_i44gjk\/youngboy-never-broke-again-on-tour-in-2025.jpg 600w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_750,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/Photo_Credit__Rich_Porter_imrichporter_i44gjk\/youngboy-never-broke-again-on-tour-in-2025.jpg 750w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_840,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/Photo_Credit__Rich_Porter_imrichporter_i44gjk\/youngboy-never-broke-again-on-tour-in-2025.jpg 840w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_960,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/Photo_Credit__Rich_Porter_imrichporter_i44gjk\/youngboy-never-broke-again-on-tour-in-2025.jpg 960w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_1260,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/Photo_Credit__Rich_Porter_imrichporter_i44gjk\/youngboy-never-broke-again-on-tour-in-2025.jpg 1260w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_1800,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/Photo_Credit__Rich_Porter_imrichporter_i44gjk\/youngboy-never-broke-again-on-tour-in-2025.jpg 1800w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_2400,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/Photo_Credit__Rich_Porter_imrichporter_i44gjk\/youngboy-never-broke-again-on-tour-in-2025.jpg 2400w,\" sizes=\"60vw\" alt=\"Rap\u2019s chart decline proves it\u2019s still a radical art form\"><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"img_caption\"><\/p>\n<p>    <span class=\"caption\"><br \/>\n      YoungBoy Never Broke Again on tour in 2025.<br \/>\n    <\/span><\/p>\n<p>  <span class=\"credit\"><br \/>\n      \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>      Photo by @imrichporter  <\/p>\n<p>  <\/span><\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<style>\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-275974\" class=\"content_block paragraph text triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left center_align\">\n<div class=\"content_inner_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"paragraph_wrapper center_align\">\n<p>\n            It\u2019s worth interrogating what metrics we\u2019re using to measure commercial dominance. In 2025, one of the most successful tours belonged to rapper NBA YoungBoy, who wrapped up his first-ever headlining run with 42 sold-out arena shows throughout the U.S., allegedly grossing over <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_new\" href=\"https:\/\/www.xxlmag.com\/nba-youngboy-masa-tour-grosses-70-million\/\">$70 million<\/a>. In 2024, that would\u2019ve put him in the <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_new\" href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/top-tours\/\">top 50 highest grossing tours<\/a>, all without ever having a solo entry crack Billboard\u2019s top 20. In a piece for the <i>New Yorker<\/i>, critic Kelefa Sanneh wrote that the <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_new\" href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/culture\/pop-music\/nba-youngboy-stands-alone\">NBA YoungBoy phenomenon<\/a> \u2014 a rapper who\u2019s experiencing such strong cult success while seemingly evading the mainstream \u2014 shows that hip-hop \u201cstill hasn\u2019t been fully digested.\u201d That the fifty-one year old genre still has insights, innovations, and worlds contained within to offer. And he\u2019s right.\n          <\/p>\n<div class=\"\" style=\"padding-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; text-align: left;\">\n<\/div>\n<p>\n            The present splintering between mainstream and community tastes in hip-hop shows that the genre is still radical, cool, and inventive enough to escape the simple palates of mainstream consumers. That such a powerful cultural force has not yet been diluted and bastardized by industry sways like \u201cchart dominance\u201d and \u201cmarket share\u201d should be a sign of hope.\n          <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<style>\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-275978\" class=\"content_block breaker triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left pull_quote\">\n<div class=\"media_wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"pull_quote\"><p><big>Hip-hop is still radical, cool, and inventive enough to escape the simple palates of mainstream consumers. <\/big><\/p><\/blockquote><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"content_block paragraph triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left\">\n<div class=\"content_inner_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"\" style=\"padding-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; text-align: left;\">\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<style>\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-275975\" class=\"content_block paragraph text triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left center_align\">\n<div class=\"content_inner_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"paragraph_wrapper center_align\">\n<p>\n            The origins of hip-hop came from that tension between what the mainstream likes and understands, and what the community seems to intuitively get. <i>Elusiveness<\/i> is a quality essential to hip-hop\u2019s power. In the midst of increasing urban decay in the 70s and 80s, <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_new\" href=\"https:\/\/projects.apnews.com\/features\/2023\/hip-hop-50th-history\/in-the-beginning-there-was-the-bronx.html\">white people fled en masse from the Bronx<\/a>. The low-income and racially marginalized community that remained was neglected and abused by the city. In response to this and the massive popularity of disco at the time, the rebellious form was born. Block parties, like the one held on August 11, 1973, that\u2019s widely accepted to have been the <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_new\" href=\"https:\/\/www.smithsonianmag.com\/smithsonian-institution\/how-the-block-party-became-an-urban-phenomenon-180980560\/\">official kickstarter of hip-hop<\/a>, became an incubator for its maturation. And by virtue of the fact that they took place in the Bronx, they alienated those who could not or would not get it. Naturally, too, then, the genre was largely ignored, seen as a fad.\n          <\/p>\n<p>\n            It wouldn\u2019t be until the 1980s, when gangsta rap \u2013 with its distinct bluntness and provocation \u2013 shocked and entranced the nation into listening, did the music truly begin to be taken seriously by the masses. And even then, it eluded in a different way. N.W.A.\u2019s \u201cStraight Outta Compton\u201d famously garnered <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_new\" href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/archives\/la-xpm-1989-10-05-ca-1046-story.html\">a letter from the FBI<\/a>. The Parental Advisory Explicit Content sticker became a weapon against Black musical expression. And then-president George H.W. Bush even <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_new\" href=\"https:\/\/www.upi.com\/Archives\/1992\/06\/29\/Bush-calls-cop-killing-lyrics-sick\/7530709790400\/\">publicly bashed<\/a> Ice T\u2019s \u201cCop Killer\u201d.\n          <\/p>\n<p>\n            Forty years later, to read what happened to hip-hop on the Billboard charts as anything other than the natural progression of an inherently outsider form is to fundamentally misunderstand hip-hop. It\u2019s functioning exactly as it\u2019s supposed to.\n          <\/p>\n<div class=\"\" style=\"padding-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; text-align: left;\">\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<style>\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-275980\" class=\"content_block paragraph embed triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left center_align\">\n<div class=\"content_inner_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"media_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"\">\n    <iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Werkin\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/7UR0hqKbn-4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<style>\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-275981\" class=\"content_block breaker triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left pull_quote\">\n<div class=\"media_wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"pull_quote\"><p>To read what happened to hip-hop on the Billboard charts as anything other than the natural progression of an inherently outsider form is to fundamentally misunderstand hip-hop.<\/p><\/blockquote><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"content_block paragraph triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left\">\n<div class=\"content_inner_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"\" style=\"padding-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; text-align: left;\">\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<style>\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-275976\" class=\"content_block paragraph text triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left center_align\">\n<div class=\"content_inner_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"paragraph_wrapper center_align\">\n<p>\n            There must be a culture surrounding the music, that rubs up blazingly against the backs of anyone outside of it, for potency to be produced. That doesn\u2019t necessarily make the music good off principle, but it sure as hell makes it hip-hop. That blaze can still be felt now, Billboard charts be damned.\n          <\/p>\n<p>\n            Rap\u2019s current \u201cunderground\u201d \u2014 comprising rappers like Nettspend, Fakemink, Osamason, or Nine Vicious \u2014 is continuously being reshaped and kept alive almost strictly through the Internet. Due to the lack of geographical limitations, there is a thrilling and freeing lack of musical or stylistic limitations. You get music like the low-key but slightly off-kilter \u201c<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_new\" href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/7UR0hqKbn-4?si=dNQeysjvbKctcoFn\">Werkin<\/a>\u201d or \u201c<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_new\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=-r8149XEmC4\">Hi, I\u2019m blessed<\/a>,\u201d which, following in the lineage of rap, alienates anyone not willing to match its abrasiveness.\n          <\/p>\n<p>\n            In 2024 when hip-hop had only a 25% market share, per Billboard, a young rapper from my hometown of Atlanta, Baby Kia, began making waves. At the time, all the online discourse surrounding his music was either <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_new\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/C36UkSrNuUx\/?igsh=cGNlZXhzeHp4MzJv\">negative<\/a>, or <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_new\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@cloutynaz\/video\/7341560191625760046\">taking it as a joke<\/a>. But every morning, when I\u2019d go to my metro-Atlanta high school, I\u2019d see a group of my classmates \u2014 all young Black men \u2014 congregated around a janky Bluetooth speaker in a corner of the classroom listening to music from him and other artists of that scene: <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_new\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/tg.hellraiser\/?hl=en\">L5<\/a>, <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_new\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/babydrill\/?hl=en\">BabyDrill<\/a>, or <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_new\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/olarunt\/?hl=en\">Ola Runt<\/a>.\n          <\/p>\n<div class=\"\" style=\"padding-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; text-align: left;\">\n<\/div>\n<p>\n            My peers were taking that music seriously, in spite of whatever anyone outside of their figurative, or literal, circle had to say about it. It moved them. Therein lies the power of hip-hop. Its absence from the top 40 is, at worst, a non-issue, and, at best, a call for jubilation.\n          <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<style>\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-275982\" class=\"content_block paragraph text triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left center_align\">\n<div class=\"content_inner_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"paragraph_wrapper center_align\">\n<p>\n            <i>See The FADER&#8217;s list of the best rap songs of November 2025.<\/i>\n          <\/p>\n<div class=\"\" style=\"padding-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; text-align: left;\">\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div class=\"author\">\n    <span><br \/>\n      By <span class=\"credit_name\">Saheim Patrick<\/span><br \/>\n  <\/span><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><script async src=\"\/\/www.tiktok.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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It\u2019s functioning exactly as it\u2019s supposed to. YoungBoy Never Broke Again. \u00a0 Photo by @imrichporter During the week of October 25 through November 1, for the first time in 35 years, no rap songs appeared on Billboard\u2019s top 40. 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