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Hot Rap Songs is a record chart published by the music industry magazine Billboard which ranks the most popular hip hop songs in the United States. With hip hop having greatly increased in mainstream popularity in the late 1980s, Billboard introduced the chart in their March 11, 1989 issue under the name Hot Rap Singles.
24. Melle Mel – “White Lines (Don’t Do It)” (1983) New York’s rock underground was often intertwined with the city’s early hip-hop scene. One notable example is the no wave band Liquid ...
50 Cent was named the number-one Rap Songs artist of the 2000s by Billboard. Hot Rap Songs is a record chart published by the music industry magazine Billboard which ranks the most popular hip hop songs in the United States. Introduced by the magazine as the Hot Rap Singles chart in March 1989, the chart was initially based solely on reports from a panel of selected record stores of weekly ...
Golden age hip hop refers to mainstream hip hop music created from the mid or mid-late 1980s [1][2][3][4] to the early or early-mid 1990s, [1][2][3][4] particularly by artists and musicians originating from the New York metropolitan area. [5] A precursor to the new-school hip hop movement, it is characterized by its diversity, quality ...
The track helped hip-hop reach a wider audience and became a top 40 hit in the United States, reached top three in the United Kingdom and became a number one hit in Canada.
The top rankings were unveiled on February 8, 2023, which crowned Jay-Z the greatest rapper of all time and Nicki Minaj the greatest female rapper of all time. It sparked multiple debates within the hip hop industry, many of whom criticized the publications and artists featured in the premier positions.
Old-school hip hop. Old-school hip hop (also spelled old skool) (also known as disco-rap) is the earliest commercially recorded hip hop music and the original style of the genre. It typically refers to the music created around 1979 to 1983, [1] as well as any hip hop that does not adhere to contemporary styles. [2]
Duke University professor Mark Anthony Neal considers it to be Common's best single ever. [8] Andrea Duncan-Mao of XXL describes it as a "bittersweet ode to hip-hop" and a "classic" track. [9] Pitchfork's Ryan Dombal considers it to be a "classic hip-hop parable". [10] In 2008, the song was ranked number 69 on VH1's 100 Greatest Songs of Hip Hop.