Is Top 40 Going to Play Hip-Hop Again?

When “Not Like Us” exploded last spring, I wrote in the “Song of Summer 2024” preview a few weeks later that it would be even better if we could have new, less combative hits from both Drake and Kendrick Lamar. It may have been an undeniably bravura performance, but at a time with so few crossover Hip-Hop artists, I didn’t particularly want one to humiliate another into early retirement. We needed them both.