100% CIA initiated just like the Hippie Movement in the 1960s. Jim Morrison, Frank Zappa, Hall and Oates and more were tied to the intelligence community. Nothing is as it seems and no large social movement is grassroots.
There is a quote from Zappa which I always thought was him trying to wake people up. Maybe it was more rubbing our noses in it?
At the point where the illusion becomes too expensive to maintain, they will just take down the scenery, they will pull back the curtains, they will move the tables and chairs out of the way and you will see the brick wall at the back of the theater.
I always too that to mean being lined up against a wall and shot.
Alex Jones reveals truths too, but frames it in such a way that everyone else thinks he's a wacko and that you're a wacko for following him. Zappa might be in the same category - definitely packaged as a far-out weirdo despite the genius we can see.
And even George Carlin was controlled, in that if he said too much he would've been taken out. I haven't dug into him except for liking his sketches, and won't call him evil or anything, but anyone with exposure only has it because the secret masters of fandom allowed it.
I was a huge Carlin fan in my drunken early 20s... So unfortunately I don't really remember specifics.
Since I've been awakened, most clips I've seen of him have been subversive and, IMO, demoralizing. Small sample size, but, looking back, it gave me the feeling he was a destabilizing op
We all need a laugh sometimes. No sense denying our enjoyment, even while we're upset at the good ones we've missed, and the manipulation we've suffered.
Makes sense. The rap today is awful compared to 80s and 90s. Some of the stuff I've heard is pure garbage. I try to be open minded to new music but it's clear to me that this crap was pushed on the youth hard. Nothing about it was organic.
Assholes trying to make a dystopic, bigger prison state (for these suckers, civilians only exist to wreck each other, ugh they can go eat a bag of dicks...)
Don't discount academia and the controlled press. Controlled by whom?
Def Jam Recordings: Co-founded by Rick Rubin (who produced early hits for LL Cool J and the Beastie Boys) and Russell Simmons, this label played a massive role in popularizing hip-hop.
Industry Leaders: Managers and executives like Jerry Heller (who managed N.W.A.) and Lyor Cohen (former Def Jam CEO and Warner Music Group executive) helped build the corporate and operational frameworks of the rap industry.
Journalism: The late-90s hip-hop landscape was largely defined by Harvard undergraduates Jonathan Shecter and Dave Mays, who co-founded the definitive magazine The Source.
I'm guessing not a lot of people on this forum ever listened to rap to begin with, but...this is ridiculous. Rap is one of the most popular music genres today, and will continue to be so, even without USAID.
This is just silly. Please don't run around telling normies that no one listens to rap anymore. We already have enough of a problem with our credibility, please don't drsg it down more with this little fantasy.
Pretty sure theres a big difference in the deep state rappers vs the ones that didnt sell their holes or their souls. Luda & 50 and I think Kanye are safe bets for sure but cant listen to shit anymore that I know is literally satanic and or performing at a Kamala rally or talking shit about trump cause their handlers told them to.
I think this article probably more or less equates to, "No one listens to pop-rap or trump hating rappers anymore" and that seems a bit more accurate for me for sure idk bout you
I been on a Harry Mack kick last couple weeks myself haha
After USAID was ended, not a single rap song is in the top charts, when they had been for decades.
There are tons of other articles talking about this.
Rap was astroturfed, force fed to americans. The hype was fake.
Lizzos new music failed. Taylor swift music is failing, nobody is going to buy these artists or see them live, because it was all fake excitement and forced listening.
You were propagandized, and don't realize it. And most rap is 100% trash. Ghetto, retarded, low IQ trash
After USAID was ended, not a single rap song is in the top charts, when they had been for decades
Guessing you mean Hot 100 and such. Because I'm pretty sure the hip hop and rap top charts had...hip hop and rap on the top charts. 🙄
Just because there's a blip that a rap song wasn't on the Top 40 boards doesn't mean it's dying or no one listens to it.
No idea why you think Taylor Swift's music is dying. Or pop music in general.
Most of this stuff is just wish fullfillment. Typically by older people who just don't like the music. But that's all it is, wishing. It's the musical equivelent of "YOU KIDS GET OFFEN MUH LAAAWWN!!!" energy.
Rap/hip hop had around 350 BILLION streams in 2025
It's the most popular genre, ahead of Rock (260 billion) and Pop (167 billion).
Taylor Swift had around 20 billion streams in 2025.
Obviously we can't get 2026 numbers yet, since it's only half over, but everything I'm reading has it either holding steady or growing slightly.
If all you have to proclaim the "death" of rap/hip hop is that a song in the genre didn't chart in the Top 40 for the first time in 30 years, that's not much evidence. It's a blip.
But if you're THAT sure, I propose we make a bet. We can go over to Kalshi or a similar platform and make a bet. If streaming numbers for all of 2026 is lower than streaming numbers for 2025 for rap/hip hop, then you win. If they're equal to or higher, I win. Whatever the minimum amount is to bet. This isn't to make money, it's to prove a point.
Becauase undoubtedly, you'll forget all about this in a month or so when people stop talking about it. So, the typical memory holing will occur.
Also, I don't listen to rap/hip hop OR Taylor Swift, so it's not like I'm upset the genres might be dying.
I just think this entire thing is stupid, and if people run around telling normies that no one listens to rap (or taylor swift), it will just be yet another strike against us in regards to credibility.
You must not be keeping up to date on how rap and "popular music" is crashing right now, not hitting the top spots any more....
Give me the names/genres of the top 25 songs on Billboard Hot 100, that aren't pop music. Or rap/hip hop
Also, I just did a deep dive on the blip of rap/hip hop not making the Top 40 list. That was back in October/November of last year.
Since then, they've been in the Top 40 hits again, consistently. You might want to mosey on over there and take a gander before you keep arguing.
You must not be keeping up to date on how rap and "popular music" is crashing right now, not hitting the top spots any more.... Maybe do a little more research on this. You clearly are outdated on whats going on in this world....
Just to prove a point about who exactly it is that needs to "do a little more research on this", and showing which of us is "outdated on what's going on".
You just got stuck on one week where rap didn't chart (yes, it was remarkable, more on that later) and then for some reason concluded that there hasn't been rap in the top 40 since then. Where are you getting that idea from? Did you bother to do any research by looking at the top 40 AFTER the anomaly? If not, why?
So, I did a little research for you. You're welcome. I didn't have the time to dig through every week, but here are a few, just to prove my point.
Drake dropped his ICEMAN album on May 15, 2026. He made history with that one, I believe. All but one of the top 10 songs for that week were his songs, and all 18 songs from that album charted in the Top 40 of the Billboard Hot 100.
From May 30, 2026 Billboard Hot 100 (the same chart used in the article in the OP that started all this nonsense);
#1 — Janice STFU
#2 — Ran To Atlanta (feat. Future & Molly Santana)
#3 — Whisper My Name
#4 — Shabang
#6 — National Treasures
#7 — Make Them Cry
#8 — Dust
#9 — 2 Hard 4 The Radio
#10 — Make Them Pay
#11 — Plot Twist
#12 — B's On The Table (feat. 21 Savage)
#13 — Burning Bridges
#15 — What Did I Miss?
#18 — Little Birdie
#19 — Make Them Remember
#21 — Make Them Know
#23 — Don't Worry
#31 — Firm Friends
Total: 18 rap/hip hop songs by Drake
(They're numbered by where each song ranked on the chart)
So that right there proves people are still listening to rap/hip hop.
But I'll give you a couple other dates to really drive my point home.
Here's a date for when there wasn't an album drop from a big name artist like Drake. It's just various artists who had their rap/hip hop songs hit the Top 40 in Billboard's Hot 100 chart:
February 7, 2026
#14 — What You Saying — Lil Uzi Vert
#20 — wgft — Gunna (feat. Burna Boy)
#28 — Hell At Night — BigXthaPlug (feat. Ella Langley)
#33 — 4 Raws — EsDeeKid
#40 — Stay Here 4 Life — A$AP Rocky (feat. Brent Faiyaz)
And now here's a more recent example, so you can see rap/hip hop are STILL in the top 40 of Billboard's Hot 100 charts;
June 13, 2026
#3 — Janice STFU — Drake
#8 — Shabang — Drake
#12 — Ran To Atlanta — Drake (feat. Future & Molly Santana)
#18 — Whisper My Name — Drake
#20 — National Treasures — Drake
#22 — 2 Hard 4 The Radio — Drake
#27 — E85 — Don Toliver
#32 — Plot Twist — Drake
#34 — Pop Dat Thang — DaBaby
#36 — B's On The Table — Drake (feat. 21 Savage)
#37 — Motion Party — BossMan Dlow
#39 — Make Them Pay — Drake
#40 — Dust — Drake
Total: 13 rap songs, 4 artists (Drake still dominating)
I think that does an adequate enough job to prove you wrong when you claim "rap and "popular music" is crashing right now, not hitting the top spots any more...." and "After USAID was ended, not a single rap song is in the top charts".
But because I'm an over achiever, I decided to flex my "elite research" skills that come in handy on this "elite research board". I started by simply READING THE ARTICLE from the OP that started all this.
Did you bother reading it? This is what happens when people form opinions based just on the headlines, and don't bother to actually read the articles.
In the article, it says that one reason for the blip is because of rule changes Billboard made.
Recent rule changes to Billboard’s Hot 100 methodology did play a part in the streak coming to an end. For the chart dated Oct. 25, descending songs were deemed recurrent and removed from the chart if they had exceeded certain durations on the chart while also falling below certain updated chart thresholds — for instance, if they had fallen below No. 25 after spending over 26 weeks on the chart. That particular change resulted in the departure of “Luther,” which had fallen to No. 38 on the previous week’s Hot 100 in its 46th week on the listing.
Here are some other articles I found about it, explaining the two week blip, using my awesome "elite research" skills, just in case you're actually curious about it. (I fibbed there. The links aren't really for you. I doubt you'd change your stance if Jesus Christ himself came down and told you that you were wrong on this. The links are for people reading the conversation who are genuinely curious about what happened.
Oh, and to close things out, and really point out the irony of just how wrong you are about, well, pretty much everything you've said here....during that 2 week blip when rap fell off the Top 40? Want to know who was dominating the charts when that happened?
Taylor Swift
Oct 25, 2025
#1 — The Fate of Ophelia
#2 — Opalite
#5 — Elizabeth Taylor
#6 — Father Figure
#7 — Wi$h Li$t
#8 — Wood
#9 — The Life of a Showgirl (feat. Sabrina Carpenter)
#10 — Actually Romantic
#11 — Cancelled!
#12 — Eldest Daughter
#13 — Ruin the Friendship
#14 — Honey
Total: 12 of the top 14
Remember when you said this?
Taylor swift music is failing
Apparently it's "failing" so hard it knocked rap out of the Top 40 for the first time in 30+ years. That's a weird way to fail.
So, like I asked before, please don't go around telling people that no one listens to rap/pop/Taylor Swift/whatever other genre or artists you have a grudge against. Because normies will see right off that you don't even bother to read articles beyond headlines, and you don't bother to do the most basic fact checking before you form some pretty strong ideas about what it going on. It makes all of us look bad and gives people ammunition against us, which makes red pilling normies that much harder.
That's great! Now you have some spare time to listen to the Billboard Hot 100 chart to see how many rap/hip hop and/or pop songs are on it, and then we can discuss it when the mods let you out.
Yes. Those are all about the two week period we already discussed, that was the result of how Billboard changed the rules. And then rap/hip hop songs went right back to the top 40.
Did you read any of my comments?
Also, I'm honored that you rushed right back from being in time out to respond to my post. Must have been difficult for you to sit out an entire week.
Dissapointing that you weren't able to do anything but find multiple copies of the two week period discussed, where even in those articles, it's detailed how a rule change was the cause, not that people weren't listening to it anymore.
But you're determined to die on this hill, aren't you?
I am into music. One of my hobbies. Torture is it real? Is the USA food cause health issues? Many are still in disbelief in this, but when we are tortured we think differently. Why is all the good fidelity music from the 80's and before? Why are we seeing the same rock bands still on tour from 40 years ago?
when people are tortured with music is it also usually low DR?
Yes, music used in psychological warfare and interrogations (often termed "sonic bombardment" or sound torture) is almost exclusively low dynamic range (low DR).When military and intelligence agencies like the CIA use music as an "enhanced interrogation" technique, they do not choose tracks based on a technical audio meter, but the genres they select naturally feature extreme dynamic compression.
EDIT: buried the lede. Perhaps RAP got the same treatment as country music
I can't find it anymore but Schiller Institute which is closely aligned with Larouche organization (some of which are now promethean action) said (specifically a guy named Anton C...chiton or something like this) that country music industry was created by 2 jewish guys. It was a hilarious presentation, and I'm not sure if it's true. But the fact you can't find it any more on the internet means there was prob some truth to it. OK wow. Google for the win
AI Overview
The Schiller Institute—an international political think tank founded by Helga Zepp-LaRouche—promotes the idea that the commercial country music industry was engineered by Jewish music executives during the 1920s to manufacture "lowbrow" culture and distract the American working class from classical traditions.
While the Schiller Institute frequently uses this narrative to frame a broader political critique of modern pop culture, historians point out that the roots of country music are far more organic. The genre grew naturally out of the Appalachian folk, gospel, and blues traditions passed down by rural, working-class Americans, both Black and white.
However, Jewish entrepreneurs, songwriters, and executives did play massive roles in shaping the business behind country music, even if they didn't create the genre's actual sound:Ralph Peer: A prominent music producer and executive who founded Southern Music, Peer is credited with holding the very first commercial country music recordings in Bristol, Tennessee (the "Bristol Sessions") in 1927.
He signed and promoted early legends like Jimmie Rodgers and the Carter Family.Frank Walker: A key Columbia Records executive who scouted and recorded early rural musicians, bringing artists like the Skillet Lickers to prominence.Nudie Cohn: A Jewish Ukrainian immigrant who settled in North Hollywood, California, and became the most famous clothier in country music history. He invented the iconic, sequin-and-rhinestone-studded "Nudie Suit" that became a staple for stars like Hank Williams and Dolly Parton.
Would you like to explore how the business side of Nashville evolved in the 20th century, or learn more about the cultural impact of the Schiller Institute's musical theories? Let me know where you'd like to dive deeper!
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I never listened to cRAP beyond the first sample. That was enough to tell me that it was anger without a hint of musicality. (I don't watch violent movies, either.)
Thank you for sharing. Almost the best news of the day. I always knew it was fake and made no sense.
designed and funded to denigrate the culture, esp the black culture
100% CIA initiated just like the Hippie Movement in the 1960s. Jim Morrison, Frank Zappa, Hall and Oates and more were tied to the intelligence community. Nothing is as it seems and no large social movement is grassroots.
There's a book called Flashback by Timothy Leary who bragged about how the CIA fuels unrest in the colleges.
Hall and Oates?
I can't go for that...
No can do.
Say it isn’t so oh oh oh oh!
There is a quote from Zappa which I always thought was him trying to wake people up. Maybe it was more rubbing our noses in it?
At the point where the illusion becomes too expensive to maintain, they will just take down the scenery, they will pull back the curtains, they will move the tables and chairs out of the way and you will see the brick wall at the back of the theater.
I always too that to mean being lined up against a wall and shot.
Alex Jones reveals truths too, but frames it in such a way that everyone else thinks he's a wacko and that you're a wacko for following him. Zappa might be in the same category - definitely packaged as a far-out weirdo despite the genius we can see.
And even George Carlin was controlled, in that if he said too much he would've been taken out. I haven't dug into him except for liking his sketches, and won't call him evil or anything, but anyone with exposure only has it because the secret masters of fandom allowed it.
Yup. Atrizine gay frogs is real. But the way Jar Jar Jones Oates it out it looks ridiculous
I was a huge Carlin fan in my drunken early 20s... So unfortunately I don't really remember specifics.
Since I've been awakened, most clips I've seen of him have been subversive and, IMO, demoralizing. Small sample size, but, looking back, it gave me the feeling he was a destabilizing op
We all need a laugh sometimes. No sense denying our enjoyment, even while we're upset at the good ones we've missed, and the manipulation we've suffered.
Laurel Canyon
I believe it.
I seem to remember LBJ had some choice words about how welfare would make a certain demographic slaves to the democrat party for 100 years.
Makes sense. The rap today is awful compared to 80s and 90s. Some of the stuff I've heard is pure garbage. I try to be open minded to new music but it's clear to me that this crap was pushed on the youth hard. Nothing about it was organic.
Private prison complex making kids into gangsters to feed the system.
Assholes trying to make a dystopic, bigger prison state (for these suckers, civilians only exist to wreck each other, ugh they can go eat a bag of dicks...)
Tavistock
Look up the lead singer of killing joke and what he has to say about it.
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Jaz has always been ahead of the curve in world matters.
Indeed
Even the rock movement was engineered.
https://www.scribd.com/document/240268235/Inside-the-LC-The-Strange-but-Mostly-True-Story-of-Laurel-Canyon-and-the-Birth-of-the-Hippie-Generation
Country music isn't country for this reason.
Note the connection between Luciferian and black military ops. See Michael Aquino. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_A._Aquino
Don't discount academia and the controlled press. Controlled by whom?
Def Jam Recordings: Co-founded by Rick Rubin (who produced early hits for LL Cool J and the Beastie Boys) and Russell Simmons, this label played a massive role in popularizing hip-hop.
Industry Leaders: Managers and executives like Jerry Heller (who managed N.W.A.) and Lyor Cohen (former Def Jam CEO and Warner Music Group executive) helped build the corporate and operational frameworks of the rap industry.
Journalism: The late-90s hip-hop landscape was largely defined by Harvard undergraduates Jonathan Shecter and Dave Mays, who co-founded the definitive magazine The Source.
Mark Devlin wrote a great series of books on this topic, Musical Truths. Well worth the read.
Hip hop was and is good stuff. but as for Rap? Death Row Records has a lot to answer for.
Fresh Prince of Baal Air
I'm guessing not a lot of people on this forum ever listened to rap to begin with, but...this is ridiculous. Rap is one of the most popular music genres today, and will continue to be so, even without USAID.
This is just silly. Please don't run around telling normies that no one listens to rap anymore. We already have enough of a problem with our credibility, please don't drsg it down more with this little fantasy.
Pretty sure theres a big difference in the deep state rappers vs the ones that didnt sell their holes or their souls. Luda & 50 and I think Kanye are safe bets for sure but cant listen to shit anymore that I know is literally satanic and or performing at a Kamala rally or talking shit about trump cause their handlers told them to.
I think this article probably more or less equates to, "No one listens to pop-rap or trump hating rappers anymore" and that seems a bit more accurate for me for sure idk bout you
I been on a Harry Mack kick last couple weeks myself haha
But ir doesn't specify any of that. It just says rap.
Wrong.
After USAID was ended, not a single rap song is in the top charts, when they had been for decades.
There are tons of other articles talking about this.
Rap was astroturfed, force fed to americans. The hype was fake.
Lizzos new music failed. Taylor swift music is failing, nobody is going to buy these artists or see them live, because it was all fake excitement and forced listening.
You were propagandized, and don't realize it. And most rap is 100% trash. Ghetto, retarded, low IQ trash
Guessing you mean Hot 100 and such. Because I'm pretty sure the hip hop and rap top charts had...hip hop and rap on the top charts. 🙄
Just because there's a blip that a rap song wasn't on the Top 40 boards doesn't mean it's dying or no one listens to it.
No idea why you think Taylor Swift's music is dying. Or pop music in general.
Most of this stuff is just wish fullfillment. Typically by older people who just don't like the music. But that's all it is, wishing. It's the musical equivelent of "YOU KIDS GET OFFEN MUH LAAAWWN!!!" energy.
Rap/hip hop had around 350 BILLION streams in 2025
It's the most popular genre, ahead of Rock (260 billion) and Pop (167 billion).
Taylor Swift had around 20 billion streams in 2025.
Obviously we can't get 2026 numbers yet, since it's only half over, but everything I'm reading has it either holding steady or growing slightly.
If all you have to proclaim the "death" of rap/hip hop is that a song in the genre didn't chart in the Top 40 for the first time in 30 years, that's not much evidence. It's a blip.
But if you're THAT sure, I propose we make a bet. We can go over to Kalshi or a similar platform and make a bet. If streaming numbers for all of 2026 is lower than streaming numbers for 2025 for rap/hip hop, then you win. If they're equal to or higher, I win. Whatever the minimum amount is to bet. This isn't to make money, it's to prove a point.
Becauase undoubtedly, you'll forget all about this in a month or so when people stop talking about it. So, the typical memory holing will occur.
Also, I don't listen to rap/hip hop OR Taylor Swift, so it's not like I'm upset the genres might be dying.
I just think this entire thing is stupid, and if people run around telling normies that no one listens to rap (or taylor swift), it will just be yet another strike against us in regards to credibility.
Give me the names/genres of the top 25 songs on Billboard Hot 100, that aren't pop music. Or rap/hip hop
Also, I just did a deep dive on the blip of rap/hip hop not making the Top 40 list. That was back in October/November of last year.
Since then, they've been in the Top 40 hits again, consistently. You might want to mosey on over there and take a gander before you keep arguing.
🙄
You must not be keeping up to date on how rap and "popular music" is crashing right now, not hitting the top spots any more....
Maybe do a little more research on this. You clearly are outdated on whats going on in this world....
Just to prove a point about who exactly it is that needs to "do a little more research on this", and showing which of us is "outdated on what's going on".
You just got stuck on one week where rap didn't chart (yes, it was remarkable, more on that later) and then for some reason concluded that there hasn't been rap in the top 40 since then. Where are you getting that idea from? Did you bother to do any research by looking at the top 40 AFTER the anomaly? If not, why?
So, I did a little research for you. You're welcome. I didn't have the time to dig through every week, but here are a few, just to prove my point.
Drake dropped his ICEMAN album on May 15, 2026. He made history with that one, I believe. All but one of the top 10 songs for that week were his songs, and all 18 songs from that album charted in the Top 40 of the Billboard Hot 100.
From May 30, 2026 Billboard Hot 100 (the same chart used in the article in the OP that started all this nonsense);
#1 — Janice STFU #2 — Ran To Atlanta (feat. Future & Molly Santana) #3 — Whisper My Name #4 — Shabang #6 — National Treasures #7 — Make Them Cry #8 — Dust #9 — 2 Hard 4 The Radio #10 — Make Them Pay #11 — Plot Twist #12 — B's On The Table (feat. 21 Savage) #13 — Burning Bridges #15 — What Did I Miss? #18 — Little Birdie #19 — Make Them Remember #21 — Make Them Know #23 — Don't Worry #31 — Firm Friends
Total: 18 rap/hip hop songs by Drake (They're numbered by where each song ranked on the chart)
So that right there proves people are still listening to rap/hip hop.
But I'll give you a couple other dates to really drive my point home.
Here's a date for when there wasn't an album drop from a big name artist like Drake. It's just various artists who had their rap/hip hop songs hit the Top 40 in Billboard's Hot 100 chart:
February 7, 2026
#14 — What You Saying — Lil Uzi Vert #20 — wgft — Gunna (feat. Burna Boy) #28 — Hell At Night — BigXthaPlug (feat. Ella Langley) #33 — 4 Raws — EsDeeKid #40 — Stay Here 4 Life — A$AP Rocky (feat. Brent Faiyaz)
And now here's a more recent example, so you can see rap/hip hop are STILL in the top 40 of Billboard's Hot 100 charts;
June 13, 2026
#3 — Janice STFU — Drake #8 — Shabang — Drake #12 — Ran To Atlanta — Drake (feat. Future & Molly Santana) #18 — Whisper My Name — Drake #20 — National Treasures — Drake #22 — 2 Hard 4 The Radio — Drake #27 — E85 — Don Toliver #32 — Plot Twist — Drake #34 — Pop Dat Thang — DaBaby #36 — B's On The Table — Drake (feat. 21 Savage) #37 — Motion Party — BossMan Dlow #39 — Make Them Pay — Drake #40 — Dust — Drake
Total: 13 rap songs, 4 artists (Drake still dominating)
I think that does an adequate enough job to prove you wrong when you claim "rap and "popular music" is crashing right now, not hitting the top spots any more...." and "After USAID was ended, not a single rap song is in the top charts".
But because I'm an over achiever, I decided to flex my "elite research" skills that come in handy on this "elite research board". I started by simply READING THE ARTICLE from the OP that started all this.
Did you bother reading it? This is what happens when people form opinions based just on the headlines, and don't bother to actually read the articles.
In the article, it says that one reason for the blip is because of rule changes Billboard made.
https://www.billboard.com/music/rb-hip-hop/no-rap-songs-hot-100-top-40-first-time-since-1990-1236100625/
Here are some other articles I found about it, explaining the two week blip, using my awesome "elite research" skills, just in case you're actually curious about it. (I fibbed there. The links aren't really for you. I doubt you'd change your stance if Jesus Christ himself came down and told you that you were wrong on this. The links are for people reading the conversation who are genuinely curious about what happened.
https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/billboard-hot-100-no-rap-songs-top-40-1235456294/
https://stereogum.com/2475783/there-are-no-rap-songs-in-the-top-40-for-the-first-time-in-35-years/columns/sounding-board
https://www.complex.com/music/a/markelibert/no-rap-songs-in-billboard-hot-100-top-40-for-the-first-time-since-1990
Oh, and to close things out, and really point out the irony of just how wrong you are about, well, pretty much everything you've said here....during that 2 week blip when rap fell off the Top 40? Want to know who was dominating the charts when that happened?
Taylor Swift
Oct 25, 2025
#1 — The Fate of Ophelia #2 — Opalite #5 — Elizabeth Taylor #6 — Father Figure #7 — Wi$h Li$t #8 — Wood #9 — The Life of a Showgirl (feat. Sabrina Carpenter) #10 — Actually Romantic #11 — Cancelled! #12 — Eldest Daughter #13 — Ruin the Friendship #14 — Honey
Total: 12 of the top 14
Remember when you said this?
Apparently it's "failing" so hard it knocked rap out of the Top 40 for the first time in 30+ years. That's a weird way to fail.
So, like I asked before, please don't go around telling people that no one listens to rap/pop/Taylor Swift/whatever other genre or artists you have a grudge against. Because normies will see right off that you don't even bother to read articles beyond headlines, and you don't bother to do the most basic fact checking before you form some pretty strong ideas about what it going on. It makes all of us look bad and gives people ammunition against us, which makes red pilling normies that much harder.
Where are you getting your info on this?
Looks like you got a week of time out.
That's great! Now you have some spare time to listen to the Billboard Hot 100 chart to see how many rap/hip hop and/or pop songs are on it, and then we can discuss it when the mods let you out.
I'm looking forward to it!
Awwww, look who rana way after being proven wrong!
https://i.ibb.co/h17BP3HN/image.png
Moron
https://www.billboard.com/music/rb-hip-hop/no-rap-songs-hot-100-top-40-first-time-since-1990-1236100625/
https://stereogum.com/2475783/there-are-no-rap-songs-in-the-top-40-for-the-first-time-in-35-years/columns/sounding-board
https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/billboard-hot-100-no-rap-songs-top-40-1235456294/
https://www.cnn.com/2025/10/30/entertainment/rap-falls-out-top-40
https://globalnews.ca/news/11514231/for-the-first-time-in-35-years-the-billboard-top-40-has-no-hip-hop-or-rap-songs-heres-why/
Yes. Those are all about the two week period we already discussed, that was the result of how Billboard changed the rules. And then rap/hip hop songs went right back to the top 40.
Did you read any of my comments?
Also, I'm honored that you rushed right back from being in time out to respond to my post. Must have been difficult for you to sit out an entire week.
Dissapointing that you weren't able to do anything but find multiple copies of the two week period discussed, where even in those articles, it's detailed how a rule change was the cause, not that people weren't listening to it anymore.
But you're determined to die on this hill, aren't you?
You're wrong.
https://i.ibb.co/h17BP3HN/image.png
It’s changed to islamo-rap recently.
You hear this sh** in the radio stations nowadays way too often.
Bad Bunnies let the industry into their rabbitholes.
The nation is healing.
I am into music. One of my hobbies. Torture is it real? Is the USA food cause health issues? Many are still in disbelief in this, but when we are tortured we think differently. Why is all the good fidelity music from the 80's and before? Why are we seeing the same rock bands still on tour from 40 years ago?
when people are tortured with music is it also usually low DR?
Yes, music used in psychological warfare and interrogations (often termed "sonic bombardment" or sound torture) is almost exclusively low dynamic range (low DR).When military and intelligence agencies like the CIA use music as an "enhanced interrogation" technique, they do not choose tracks based on a technical audio meter, but the genres they select naturally feature extreme dynamic compression.
You cannot sing rap in the shower.
Not even a prison shower?
Luckily I have no idea.
They rap in tthe shower until the 'drop' (soap)....then it's on.
EDIT: buried the lede. Perhaps RAP got the same treatment as country music
I can't find it anymore but Schiller Institute which is closely aligned with Larouche organization (some of which are now promethean action) said (specifically a guy named Anton C...chiton or something like this) that country music industry was created by 2 jewish guys. It was a hilarious presentation, and I'm not sure if it's true. But the fact you can't find it any more on the internet means there was prob some truth to it. OK wow. Google for the win
https://www.google.com/search?q=there+was+a+presentation+by+the+schiller+institute+with+a+guy+named+anton+who+said+that+the+country+music+industry+was+created+by+I+believe+2+jewish+men%3F+
Great. Maybe "Pride" month will go away too, along with its indoctrination of school children. And the neo-Nazi Antifa organization.
Nobody listens to alex jones or ventura anymore, either.
Um, how is defunding stopping rap music. Let's see, paying radio stations to play crap music? Now no one is paying someone, so no play time? IDK???
No one listens to rap any more?
LOL take a roll through da hood...(if you dare)
I never listened to cRAP beyond the first sample. That was enough to tell me that it was anger without a hint of musicality. (I don't watch violent movies, either.)