Is hip-hop dying?
On Point with Meghna Chakrabarti
WBUR
4.2 • 3.5K Ratings
🗓️ 5 December 2025
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
Earlier this fall, there were no rap songs in the Billboard Top 40 for the first time since 1990. Is this just a blip in commercial popularity, or is it a sign that hip hop is losing its grip on mainstream America?
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| 0:58.1 | I'm Megyn Chakra-Bardi. |
| 1:00.0 | In 1973, on a hot August night in the Bronx, a teenage disc jockey named Cool Herk, |
| 1:07.0 | plugged two turntables into a sound system and tried something new. |
| 1:10.6 | He isolated the breakbeat, the moment in a record where everything drops out except the drums. |
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| 1:17.6 | I'm like a shepherd. I'm watching the flock, you know. |
| 1:21.6 | I got to maintain this crowd going on until about 4 o'clock. |
| 1:25.6 | I'm very observing. |
| 1:28.5 | So what I was noticing people was to wait for the particular parts of the record to |
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