Bustednuckles

Not that I listen to any of this shit anyway…

The Billboard Top 40 Now Contains Zero Rap Songs for the First Time in Decades

Are musical tastes changing?

Or is there a deeper cultural shift in the works?

Those are the sorts of questions permeating social media and music discourse after a shocking report surfaced that the Billboard charts are missing a clear genre of song for the first time in decades.

“No Rap Songs Are in the Billboard Hot 100’s Top 40 for the First Time Since 1990,” Billboard blared in its headline.

“With Kendrick Lamar and SZA’s 13-week Billboard Hot 100 No. 1 ‘Luther’ falling off the Hot 100 dated Oct. 25, 2025, there were officially no rap songs in the chart’s top 40 last week,” Billboard explained.

The last time a rap song wasn’t in the top 40 of the Billboard Hot 100 was in 1990, when Biz Markie’s eventual top 10 hit “Just a Friend” was only able to rank at 41.

Of note, a week after “Just a Friend” just barely missed the top 40, it jumped up to 29, kicking off the streak of rap songs in the top 40 that just ended.

35 years of that crap.

Well, now I have outlived two shit types of music fads.

Disco and Rap.

Actually, I never considered Rap to be music anyway.

Long live Heavy Metal bitches.