Billboard's recent change in threshold for songs to remain in the top 40 of the Hot 100 list booted Kendrick Lamar and SZA's hit "Luther." This made history, ending a 35-year streak of rap tracks on the top 40 spots on the chart.

New rules mean no rap in the Top 40 of the Hot 100 chart for the first time in 35 years and a shakeup to Kendrick Lamar’s reign.

Luther” fell off the Billboard Hot 100 due to the chart’s new recurrent rule, ending Hip-Hop’s 35-year top 40 streak.

No rap songs have ranked in the top 40 on the last two Billboard Hot 100 charts, following Kendrick Lamar and SZA's "Luther" dropping off the chart.

The Top 40 of the latest Billboard Hot 100 chart is without a rap song for the first time in 35 years, according to the outlet.

For the first time in 35 years, there are no rap songs in the Billboard Hot 100’s top 40. The shift came after Kendrick Lamar and SZA’s 13-week No 1 hit Luther dropped off the

The SZA-assisted hit topped the Billboard Hot 100 songs chart for 13 weeks, but its potential successors in the genre were either nixed following rule changes or appear below Number 40

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