It says best rapper alive in the title, therefore a picking the best rapper that year.Dude its called MVP for a reason. KRS wasn't anywhere close to being most valuable in 03. GRODT was far from my favorite album in 03 but Im not a fool enough to think 50 wasn't the biggest rapper in the game. If we were voting strictly off fame and sales MC Hammer woulda won in a landslide in 1990
If it was based off who had the biggest year would pick somebody else of course, probably 50.