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Rap Is Doing Just Fine on the Charts
Those Billboard issues appear to have been overblown.
Even before Kendrick’s surprise drop, rap had already seen chart success this year with Tyler, the Creator’s Chromakopia, which logged three weeks on top of the Billboard 200. Future and Metro Boomin’s A-list team-up accounted for two chart-topping albums, and the ever-reliable Eminem made something of a return to form on The Death of Slim Shady (Coup de Grâce), sending a song to No. Meanwhile, Travis Scott put a ten-year-old mixtape on streaming and nearly toppled Sabrina Carpenter, and Ye and Ty Dolla $ign’s debut as ¥$ earned a No.
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