TFA: " Analyses show that between 1960 and 2010, the US Billboard Hot 100 songs with the most profound influences on pop music were hip hop."

The last several words link to:

https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsos.150081#d...

which says: "The rise of rap and related genres appears, then, to be the single most important event that has shaped the musical structure of the American charts in the period that we studied."

This is an entirely different claim from the one in the TFA, even assuming that the RSP paper is taken at face value, which is hard to do given its own list of limitations.