2017 in hip hop music - Wikipedia
2019-6-21 · On July 17, Forbes reported that hip-hop/R&B (which Nielsen SoundScan classifies as the same genre) had recently usurped rock as the most consumed musical genre, becoming the most popular genre in music for the first time in U.S. history. September. On September 3, Lil Wayne was hospitalized in Chicago for suffering multiple seizures.