The Fabulous Peltoncast: Seattle Sports and More
Dec 18, 2025 · 1 hr 7 min · 12 segments
For the 10th consecutive year, we break down the year that was in music with insights from Tristan’s perspective as an industry insider and Kevin’s perspective as a total outsider. We discuss why hip…
Tristan CarosinoHostKevin PeltonHostSo your first topic was that there is no hip hop in the Billboard Hot 100 Top 40 for the first time since 1990, in a year where Kendrick headlined the Super Bowl halftime show.
And I would note, we talked about this on this podcast, played a series of very successful stadium level concerts, including a sold out one in Seattle that we both attended, obviously co-headlining with SZA.
And I think two things were happening here at the same time, which was there's a pretty big news story.
This is back in like October where there wasn't a hip hop song in that top 40.
And people were using it to basically mark like this is the era where hip hop is dead or something like that.
So the takes that people had when this was happening in, I think it was October, late October, that this happened, that there wasn't a song in there.
It was Luther that had fallen out of the top 40 that made it so that there were no hip hop songs.
And I think the thing that's fascinating about it is basically the classic rockification of hip hop.
And, you know, when we were kids, right, classic rock was music that came out in 19, like starting probably around like 1967 through about 1980.
So your first topic was that there is no hip hop in the Billboard Hot 100 Top 40 for the first time since 1990, in a year where Kendrick headlined the Super Bowl halftime show.
And I would note, we talked about this on this podcast, played a series of very successful stadium level concerts, including a sold out one in Seattle that we both attended, obviously co-headlining with SZA.
And I think two things were happening here at the same time, which was there's a pretty big news story.
This is back in like October where there wasn't a hip hop song in that top 40.
And people were using it to basically mark like this is the era where hip hop is dead or something like that.
So the takes that people had when this was happening in, I think it was October, late October, that this happened, that there wasn't a song in there.
It was Luther that had fallen out of the top 40 that made it so that there were no hip hop songs.
And I think the thing that's fascinating about it is basically the classic rockification of hip hop.
And, you know, when we were kids, right, classic rock was music that came out in 19, like starting probably around like 1967 through about 1980.
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