Vibe shift: No rap song in the Top 40 for the first time since 1989

Good news! Let's dance in the streets! Long overdue! What comes next in contemporary black American music?

Rap music has become so boring and sometimes so annoying over the the past 20 years or more! So repetitive and without much creativity!

In the beginning, rap music was great, thought provoking, and entertaining like Sugar Hill Gang's Rapper's delight (1979) or The Message by the Furious Five (1982)

"Now, what you hear is not a test, I'm rappin' to the beat

And me, the groove, and my friends are gonna try to move your feet

You see, I am Wonder Mike, and I'd like to say hello

To the black, to the white, the red, and the brown, the purple and yellow

But first, I gotta bang-bang the boogie to the boogie

Say up jump the boogie to the bang-bang boogie

Let's rock, you don't stop

Rock the riddle that'll make your body rock ..."

"It's like a jungle sometimes

It makes me wonder how I keep from goin' under ..."

Vibe shift: No rap in the Top 40 for the first time since 1989 | Blaze Media "As 'Luther' drops off the Top 40, the moment signals a long-overdue rejection of violent, hyper-sexualized rap music."