JAY-Z NEVER RAN THE RAP GAME - agree or disagree?

[Killigraphy]

To be honest Em is still running rap, dude dropped a mediocre cypher and people are hyped as fukk...


Jay needed an entire album to do that.

 

[Benefited]

'95-'96- Pac didn't run it alone. There was Biggie who had a stellar '95 as well. In '96, there was The Fugees. In both years, there was also Bone.

'97- Biggie passed, nut was on his way to having a huge '97. Puff came in after Biggie's death and dominated. Master P also had a big '97.

'98- X and Lauryn

'99- X, Jay, and Juve

'00- Nelly and Em

'01- Jay and Ja

'02- Eminem, Ja, and Nelly

'03- 50 Cent

'04- Kanye

'05- 50 Cent

'06- T.I.

'07- Wayne/Kanye

'08- Wayne

'09- arguably Jay

'10- Ross

'11- Drake/Ross

'12- Ross/2Chainz

'13- Drake/Jay

'14- Future

'15- Drake/Future

'16-

'17- Kendrick

I don't like the way you lowkey tried to slide Master P and No Limit in there as if they were a footnote

And 50cent in 2005 over Jeezy?I don't remember Ross ever running a year,letalong 3,but I'll have to think about it. I will say for certain that him running 3 years is a lie though. Also Migos have to get 2017 with Kendrick.

 

[Bickin Back Being Bool]

2011 Drake
2012 Drake
2013 Kendrick
2014 idk... maybe YG & Mustard
2015 was The Weeknd/Future/Drake
2016 was def. Drake
2017 is all Kendrick

YG had the best album 2014

 

[Black_Panther_JS]

He was still more popular and Drake that year was different from Drake in previous years. Drake was more Rap that year than the sing songy rap songs that he usually made. Quentin wad a huge part of that. Then there was the beef with Meek Mill. Can't act like "Back to Back" wasn't killing it.

Quality is arguably because its moreso opinion than fact.

I’m not talking quality, dudes fukked with Futures 3-peat, and DS2 more than Drakes stuff. That was Futures year

 

[Ziggiy]

There are very very rare occurrences where one rapper reined Supreme during an entire year. Nas came close in 94 but you gotta give BIG his credit and Jay came VERY close in 01 but we all know what happened on his birthday of that year...

This is how I’d rank it

94- Nas/Big
95- Pac/Bone Thugz
96- Nas/Pac/Fugees
97-BIG/Master P & No Limit/WuTang
98- Jay-Z/DMX
99- Nas/Jay/DMX/Em
00-Nelly/Ja/Outkast/Em
01- Jay/Ja
02-Nas/Jay/Em/Nelly
03- 50 Cent/Jay/Outkast
04-Kanye/T.I./Luda
05- Kanye/50/Jeezy/Wayne
06- T. I./Game/Jay
07-Kanye/Jay/Lupe
08- Wayne (T.I./Nas/and Ye had dope years but I’d be remiss if I didn’t give it to Wayne for thoroughly running the game in 08, regardless of personal preference)
09-Jay ( you could make a case for Ross too)
10-Kanye/Drake/Em
11-Drake/ Jay & Kanye as The Throne
12-Nas/Kendrick/Ross
13-Drake/Kanye
14-Nicki Minaj/Schoolboy Q/J.Cole
15-Kendrick/Drake/Future
16-Kanye/Chance/Drake
17- Kendrick Lamar (I won’t argue anyone who puts Jay here as well)

 

[Code]

Kanye did not run '10-'12. Rick Ross and Drake were bigger than Kanye during those years. What's even crazier is that Kanye's biggest album during those years featured Rick Ross TWICE. Ross had "BMF" poppin' off every corner and ever since then. Then there was "MC Hammer". "Aston Martin Music" was his biggest record commercially. Then there was the tapes that had huge songs on them to ne mixtape joints. Rich Forever was bigger than whatever Ye dropped in 2012. Then there was God Forgives, I Don't. In 2011, Ross, Drake, and Wayne were killin it with "On One". Then Wale and Meek Mill got a huge assist from Ross with "That Way" and I'm a Boss" respectively from the first Self Made compilation.

We can def give Ross the 1st half of 2010 but 2nd half of the year Kanye had hiphop in the palm of his hands with the good fridays releases
Kanye 100% ran 2011 because the MBDTF singles started taking off, and watch the throne dropped
2012 Drake was huge but we can't act like he wasn't depending heavily on his singing tracks. Kanye was equally as massive with pure hiphop so he gets 2012

Ross didn't run rap in 2012 stop it

 

[King Jove]

There's no way you can construe WATTBA into a Black and white discussion. For starters, a lot of those fans don't even check for Drake's full on rap records like that. Secondly, that album wasn't crossover or even put out there to be on their radar.

Future was not a superstar and is still not a superstar. Superstars are people that are A list internationally. It was one superstar collaborating with an artist on the cusp of stardom.

it doesn't matter how it was put out. drake is a mainstream rap star and to be a mainstream rap star at his level you have to have a lot of a white fans so when drake announces a project his white fans are going to be checking for it.

and future is a rap superstar. you don't have two number 1 albums in a year without being a superstar.

you don't headline your own arena rap tour without being a superstar.

he's not some d-list soundcloud rapper.

 

[No Hook]

"Even without the airplay Platinum off of hearsay
"It's your year Jay!" Get off my dikk
Been my year, you talkin' to a winner out here"

-99

 

[Black_Panther_JS]

There are very very rare occurrences where one rapper reined Supreme during an entire year. Nas came close in 94 but you gotta give BIG his credit and Jay came VERY close in 01 but we all know what happened on his birthday of that year...

This is how I’d rank it

94- Nas/Big
95- Pac/Bone Thugz
96- Nas/Pac/Fugees
97-BIG/Master P & No Limit/WuTang
98- Jay-Z/DMX
99- Nas/Jay/DMX/Em
00-Nelly/Ja/Outkast
01- Jay/Ja
02-Nas/Jay/Em/Nelly
03- 50 Cent/Jay/Outkast
04-Kanye/T.I./Luda
05- Kanye/50/Jeezy/Wayne
06- T. I./Game/Jay
07-Kanye/Jay/Lupe
08- Wayne (T.I./Nas/and Ye had dope years but I’d be remiss if I didn’t give it to Wayne for thoroughly running the game in 08, regardless of personal preference)
09-Jay ( you could make a case for Ross too)
10-Kanye/Drake/Em
11-Drake/ Jay & Kanye as The Throne
12-Nas/Kendrick/Ross
13-Drake/Kanye
14-Nicki Minaj/Schoolboy Q/J.Cole
15-Kendrick/Drake/Future
16-Kanye/Chance/Drake
17- Kendrick Lamar (I won’t argue anyone who puts Jay here as well)

Kendrick is 2013, GKMC came out October 2012 but was really felt in 2013

Poetic justice, backseat freestyle and bytch don’t kill my vibe, he had mad features, the awards, Control and all that was 2013

 

[Black_Panther_JS]

YG had the best album 2014

Gibbs did

 

[Vandelay]

From 98 to 03, if he wasn't number 1, he was 1b. Stop tryna discredit homie on some b.s.

98 - X, Lauryn, Jay
99 - Juvie, Dre, Jay
00 - Em, Nelly, Jay
01 - Ja, Jay
02 - Em, Nelly, Jay
03 - 50, Jay

 

[Zero]

So the Booth just lying now?

 

[iseetrolledpeople]

Not a fan of Jay like that but he been bigger than Rap. Fcuk is this "he didnt run x year? lol

 

[Ziggiy]

Kendrick is 2013, GKMC came out October 2012 but was really felt in 2013

Poetic justice, backseat freestyle and bytch don’t kill my vibe, he had mad features, the awards, Control and all that was 2013

Ehh. That’s kind of a slippery slope. I don’t usyally bleed rappers releases into the next year unless it was a bonafide winter release.


That’s why I put Nas in the 02 year instead of 2001. The goodwill for Stillmatic (December release) and the hype from the battle bled into 02. You also had Lost Tapes, Gods Son, and his infamous Power 105 rant all in 02.

Kendrick dropped GKMC in October and the impact was felt IMMEDIATELY. Everybody was bumping that album, it was bigger than just a couple hot singles it was a praised body of work from the moment it dropped.

Hell if I’m not mistaken GKMC was already platinum by the time Poetic Justice was even released as a single.

That’s why I say Kendrick can sit comfortably in 2012 next to Nas and Ross.

 

[NYChase718]

People dropping years wit 3 to 5 names



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