Billboard began the Top Rap Albums chart on the weekend of June 26, 2004, [7] although its first publication on print commenced on the week of November 20, 2004. [8] Pop Smoke's posthumous debut, Shoot for the Stars, Aim for the Moon holds the record of most weeks at number one on the chart with twenty non-consecutive weeks. [9] Albums with the most weeks at number one [ edit ] Weeks New Store Panel Updates R&B Charts". Billboard. Vol.116, no.49. December 4, 2004. p.16 . Retrieved May 1, 2020. Anderson, Trevor (2022-09-29). "Lil Baby's 'My Turn' Hits 100 Weeks in Top 10 of Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums Chart". Billboard . Retrieved 2023-03-25. Billboard's respective top R&B and rap albums charts, which respectively rank contemporary R&B and rap albums within their own charting positions, are consolidated into the overall Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart. [ citation needed] Chart name history [ edit ] Billboard R&B Charts Get Updated Names". Billboard. December 11, 1999. p.8 . Retrieved May 26, 2020– via Google Books.

In 2008, Tricia Rose published another book, The Hip Hop Wars: What We Talk About When We Talk About Hip Hop – and Why It Matters. Hip-hop, she wrote, was “gravely ill”, because it had spent too much time and energy “pandering to America’s racist and sexist lowest common denominator”. But throughout the book, she was careful to specify that she was only talking about commercial hip-hop – the dominant form, but not the only one. She wanted readers to be aware of a second tradition, less popular but more substantive, which she called “socially conscious” or “progressive” hip-hop. In the underground, Rose wrote, out of reach of the “powerful corporate interests” that controlled the media and the music industry, a cohort of rappers had emerged as the genre’s best and maybe last hope; they were making thoughtful and politically minded music, leaving behind what she called “the gangsta-pimp-ho trinity”. Even as she praised “socially conscious” hip-hop, Rose expressed some reluctance about the term, because it was reductive, and because it divided the hip-hop world in a way that many rappers found unhelpful. “Being called ‘socially conscious’ is almost a commercial death sentence” for a rapper, she wrote, because the label led listeners to expect lyrics that were explicitly political, and possibly rather humourless. “From this sober perspective on consciousness, gangstas appear to be the only ones having fun.”

Beastie Boys, “Hold It, Now Hit It”

Your voice is your lens through who you are,’” Murs’s mentor, Slug, once told him. “For better or worse, I’m from Los Angeles. It would be gang culture – that’s my lens. Everything I see is through that,” Murs noted. One thing to keep in mind: this is where rap and hip hop exist right now. But things are constantly evolving. Rap styles are always evolving, and hip hop’s nuances are in a state of constant flux.

Memphis newcomer GloRilla dropping one of the biggest hits of the year was probably not on most music fans’ bingo cards. Nevertheless, the CMG signee came, saw and conquered thanks to her hair-swinging hit record, “FNF.” The Hitkidd-produced beat is immediately enjoyable, inciting mischievous excitement by way of its simple dark piano melody and a drum pattern to get even the most reluctant partygoer out of their seat and onto the dance floor. But it’s GloRilla’s husky, snarling delivery that makes “FNF” best-of-year material. It’s clear that the 23-year-old rapper is just being herself, flapping her arms around a vast parking lot with a squad of girlfriends, one of which flashes a 42-ounce bottle of malt liquor, all of which shout the infectious chorus at the top of their lungs. Trust, Gary (November 17, 2009). "Billboard 200 Undergoes Makeover". Billboard . Retrieved May 1, 2020. New albums released by artists big enough on the sub to get their own megathread. Daily Discussion Threads In the late 1990s some new school artists like the Roots and Guru began reincorporating live instruments into their recordings and during live performances, such as “Loungin’,” Guru’s collaboration with jazz great Donald Byrd on trumpet and piano. Others, like Dr. Dre, controlled the production tightly by utilizing the basics of classic funk songs, but slowing down the tempo for riding in a car (not dancing), adding menacing, bass-driven grooves (stripping funk’s bright sounds from the brass section), highlighted by integrating high-pitched synthesizer and chopped samples as in “Nothin’ But a ‘G’ Thang” (explicit). In the second millennium, the southern rap styles explode. Although there is no one southern style, they do share in common some characteristics: rhythmically and melodically minimalistic with coarse accents on the high and low ends leaving a lot of space for vocals.Contains features we've discontinued: Classic Pop Album of the Week and Now That's What I Call /r/Popheads! Old school rap is associated with a party-oriented musical and lyrical style as heard in Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five’s “Birthday Party” (1981). Performers of the old school (early 1970s–mid-1980s) gained their reputations from live performances. Their recordings are characterized by the use of live bands and/or Latin-influenced percussion; the incorporation of scratching and other turntable effects; call-and-response chants between MCs and crowds; and lyrics delivered in rhymed couplets (A-A-B-B). Singers can hide their words – no matter how formulaic or spurious – beneath a tune. But rappers are more exposed than singers, because their form of expression is more similar to speech. And so rappers spend lots of time explaining who they are, what they’re doing and why they deserve your attention. For similar reasons, rappers are eager to engage with their detractors – more than singers, they must worry about social standing, because that standing is what gives them the right, and the credibility, to speak and to be believed. Hill made her solo debut in 1998 with The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill, the high-water mark of the conscious hip-hop movement. With her half-raspy rapping and singing voice, Hill eased between tough rhymes and balladry, creating a hip-hop album with the spirit and sweetness of 70s soul. Gray, Geordie (2021-03-25). "Pop Smoke beats Eminem for most weeks spent a #1 on the hip-hop chart". Tone Deaf . Retrieved 2022-02-07.

If there's a Reddit embedded link (YouTube, Soundcloud) for your post, post it! Your post could be removed if you don't. Review:God bless XL Recordings. The UK label has been at the forefront of boundary pushing music since its inception, and almost 35 years remains a seal of quality. A constant source of inspiring surprises and new sonic experiences. The kind of organisation that will take a punt on British polymath Jai Paul's demo album, which, by all accounts, is pretty hard to describe, let alone define. More so, the type of team that would, eight years earlier, support and release one of the artist's earliest songs, 'BTSTU'. Coming full circle, that tune closes this collection of stuff produced around the same time, all of which was going to form the debut album, Bait Ones. One low-quality CD-R of the work stolen and then leaked online later, and the artist stepped away from music until the end of the last decade, when this "perfectly imperfect" LP was finally allowed to see the light of day. A lo fi, glitchy, trippy, granular, sexy sound that owes as much to hip hop, pop and r&b as experimental noise, ambient dub, and electronic soul. Philthy Rich - King of Oakland (w Sauce Walka, Babyface Ray, CEO Trayle, Doe Boy, Peezy, Icewear Vezzo + more) [West Coast Trap, FOD ] Big Moochie Grape - East Haiti Baby: Incarcerated (w YFN Lucci, Rio Da Yung OG + more) [Trap, PRE ] The Game Chart History - Billboard". Billboard. Archived from the original on 2023-10-16 . Retrieved 2023-10-23.

Latto, "Big Energy"

This was one problem with political hip-hop: rappers did not always make great politicians. Ice Cube, the leading voice of gangsta rap, was transformed by the 1992 protests and riots in Los Angeles into a kind of spokesperson – suddenly, his furious rhymes seemed entirely in step with the nightly news. But his 1991 album, Death Certificate, included threats aimed at “Oriental” shop owners, and other lines that were all but impossible to defend as political rallying cries. The most persuasive defence of Ice Cube was essentially the aesthetic, not the political: that he was a spellbinding rapper whose music made it easier for listeners to understand why he felt the way he did, and perhaps why others did, too.

A weekly thread where users give their top ten songs for a particular artist. Follow the link for a list of the artists we've covered and our democratically decided top ten lists. Quality Posts a b Anderson, Trevor (2020-11-20). "Pop Smoke's 'Shoot for the Stars' Has Most Weeks at No. 1 on Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums Since 2012". Billboard . Retrieved 2022-02-07. Once the ball dropped, Gunna ignited the flame with his club-ready single “Pushin P’,” which made the 16th letter in the alphabet top-tier on social media. Also, no one expected the Memphis rookie GloRilla to cause tremors in the genre with her earthshaking anthems “FNF” and “Tomorrow 2.” Her surplus of hits allowed men and women to get loud and rowdy together as they chanted her lyrics with gusto.

Biz Markie, “Just a Friend”

Mayfield, Geoff (November 20, 2004). "Over the Counter". Billboard. Vol.116, no.47. Nielsen Business Media, Inc. p.81.