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I don't get this. It is clearly a hip hop song (albeit with a bit of old school 808 influence rather than the current Hit Boy/40 production style and made by tw
by Kylekramer 14y ago
I don't get this. It is clearly a hip hop song (albeit with a bit of old school 808 influence rather than the current Hit Boy/40 production style and made by two white guys with a black singer on the hook), why was it not the Billboard hip hop charts all along?
- homosaur 14y agoHip hop radio is an incredibly conservative, staid, and boring format. You have to remember that for almost a decade and a half (basically until The Chronic forced the issue) they wouldn't even really play rap music that wasn't also dance music. It was mostly C&C Music Factory, MC Hammer, etc. No Public Enemy, no Tribe Called Quest... Those things were supported by college radio first. Think of everything that's popular and critically acclaimed they won't play today from all the Odd Future stuff to Killer Mike to Lupe Fiasco... Radio in general serves mostly as background music for ads. A song that rejects consumption in very specific terms is the last thing they want to see.
- smackfu 14y agoGood question. Parent seems to imply Hip-hop/R&B charts are just from Hip-hop/R&B radio (e.g. "which means this is getting played on actual rap radio"), but Billboard's description of the charts says it is across all radio formats.
- homosaur 14y agoYes, you are correct. The Billboard Hot 100 is across all formats and the genre charts are for genre-oriented stations only.