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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 ...
The production uses a sample of the acoustic guitar intro to "Fast Car" accompanied with drums. [1] The lyrics make references to drug abuse, guns and violence. [2] Greg Nice performs the first verse, while Smooth B performs the second verse, which revolves around him being in love with a cocaine addict who relapses after 18 months in rehab.
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. [1] [2] Prior to the addition of the chart, hip hop music had been profiled in the magazine's "The Rhythm & the Blues" column and disco-related sections, while some rap ...
The song appears in the 1999 video game Thrasher: Skate and Destroy.The song also is featured in the 2004 video game Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas on the classic hip-hop station, Playback FM (for which Public Enemy's frontman Chuck D voiced the station's DJ "Forth Right MC"), as is "The Grunt" on Master Sounds 98.3.
Hot Rap Songs (formerly known as Hot Rap Tracks and Hot Rap Singles) is a chart released weekly by Billboard in the United States. It lists the 25 most popular hip-hop/rap songs, calculated weekly by airplay on rhythmic and urban radio stations and sales in hip hop-focused or exclusive markets.
OPINION: The St. Louis rapper was on “The Shop” talking about success at the Grammys and made the bold claim about how competitive it was for a rapper in the aughts. The post Nelly said that ...
Hot Rap Songs is a record chart published by the music industry magazine Billboard that ranks the most popular hip hop songs in the United States. 77 songs topped Hot Rap Songs in the 2010s. The first number-one song of the decade was "Empire State of Mind" by Jay-Z featuring Alicia Keys. [1]
The Hard Way debuted at number four on the US Billboard 200, selling 95,000 copies in its first week. [9] The album debuted at top on the US Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart. [10] "So Fly" was released on July 6, 2004 at first single from the album. The song reached at number 2 on US Billboard Bubbling Under Hot 100 Singles.