Rap music has had a famously difficult time on the Billboard Hot 100 in recent weeks. (After two weeks with no rap songs in the top 40, the drought finally ended this week, with Megan Thee Stallion’s “Lover Girl” coming in hot at #38.) But R&B is a different story. In the past few months, formerly culty R&B singers like Ravyn Lenae and Mariah The Scientist have had big breakout hits, while Leon Thomas’ Grammy-anointed “Mutt” is finally in the top 10 after an almost year-long climb. Another song in this weeks’ top 10 is Kehlani’s “Folded.” It’s the #7 song in America this week, which makes it Kehlani’s first-ever top-10 hit.
