's "Hot Rap Songs" Chart (1989 - 2015)

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This is what Hip Hop's Billboard Top 10 sounded like, back in 1995

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AUG 1989

Fight The Power

MAR 1993

Nuthin’ But A G Thang

APR 1994

PLAYER'S BALL

APR 1995

DEAR MAMA

MAY 1995

I’ll Be There For You

AUG 1997

Mo Money Mo Problems

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Methodology: this uses Billboard's Hot Rap Songs Chart. Billboard began publishing this list as a weekly sales-based chart, then known as Hot Rap Singles, in 1989. In 2002, the chart was replaced with a list titled Hot Rap Tracks, based on radio audience impressions monitored by Nielsen Music. The chart added digital downloads and streaming data into its formula in 2012 and was renamed Hot Rap Songs, as it is known today. For simplicity, the animated line chart only displays only songs that peaked in the top 5.