Here’s What The Alchemist Has to Say About No Rap Songs Being in Hot 100 Top 40 for First Time Since 1990

The Alchemist has added his two cents on the topic that had Rap Twitter in a frenzy this week.

Pop Goes Hip-Hop: Take Rap’s “Exit” From Billboard’s Top 40 With A Grain Of Salt

The highest appearance by a hip-hop song is YoungBoy Never Broke Again’s “Shot Callin,” at No. 44. Yet in 1990, hip-hop was still in its keeping-it-real phase. Biz’s pop chart ascendence (rap’s ...
The Western Journal on MSN

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

"The lack of rap songs in the Hot 100’s top 40 is the latest sign of a recent dip in rap’s commercial dominance," Billboard ...
StereogumOpinion

There Are No Rap Songs In The Top 40 For The First Time In 35 Years

Yesterday, Billboard deputy editor and Stereogum buddy Andrew Unterberger published a piece with some confusing implications: ...
American Songwriter

There Are No Rap Songs in the Top 40 for the First Time in 40 Years, but Why—a Dip in Commercial Dominance, Rule Changes, Taylor Swift?

The Top 40 of the latest Billboard Hot 100 chart is without a rap song for the first time in 35 years, according to the outlet.
Complex

Biz Markie's Manager Refutes Rumors of Rapper's Death

DJ Biz Markie attends the third Annual Multicultural Media Correspondents Dinner at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C. on Thursday, May 24, 2018. (Photo by Cheriss May/NurPhoto via Getty ...
Salon

Biz Markie was the “essence of hip-hop”: Hailing the rapper who made us laugh as hip-hop turns 50

Biz Markie was hyper-animated, hilarious and larger than life. The late rapper was the best at injecting fun into his rhymes, in a way that helped me and a whole generation of young people fall in ...
Newsday

Long Island hip-hop legend Biz Markie's life chronicled in new film

In "All Up in the Biz," his documentary on the fun-loving Long Island rapper Biz Markie, director Sacha Jenkins captures something you don’t often see in the world of hip-hop: a grown man shedding ...
Black Enterprise

Biz Markie Documentary Coming To Showtime On Hip-Hop’s 50th Birthday

A documentary about the life and career of the late rapper Biz Markie is coming to Showtime on the same day as hip-hop’s 50th birthday. The Sacha Jenkins-directed documentary All Up In The Biz, ...
AllHipHop

Biz Markie Documentary To Premiere At Tribeca Film Festival

Sacha Jenkins directed the Biz Markie documentary ‘All Up in the Biz,’ which is coming to the 2023 Tribeca Film Festival. The 2023 Tribeca Film Festival announced its lineup, which includes a new ...
Reuters

Biz Markie's widow sues rapper's manager over royalties, company control

(Reuters) - Rapper Biz Markie's widow is suing his former business manager in Washington, D.C., federal court over widespread alleged intellectual property violations, including claims the manager ...
AllHipHop

KNOW YA HIP HOP: Eminem And Biz Markie

Learn about Eminem and Biz Markie’s 1986 performance at Union Square. Imagine being poor, white, and from Detroit — but being obsessed with rap music. Now add to that mix that you think you can move ...