The Best Rapper Alive, Every Year Since 1979 (Complex)

[Rakim Allah]

should've been Mase

nikka was makin Calgon commercial songs.

 

[kermit da hustla]

Ross deserves to be on that list. That nikkabeen running the rap game for three years straight and he is STILL the hottest doing it right now.

 

[The Jewnited States]

Ross deserves to be on that list. That nikkabeen running the rap game for three years straight and he is STILL the hottest doing it right now.

hottest = best?

 

[kermit da hustla]

hottest = best?

Nas isn't anywhere on that list so they are clearly not talking about the "best" doing it. Ross is the most consistent artist out, and he's been doing that for over three years straight.

 

[observe]

List on point up until 1993....but after that its just fukkary

But no treach ....hmmm..?

 

[nawshus]

Ross deserves to be on that list. That nikkabeen running the rap game for three years straight and he is STILL the hottest doing it right now.

No. Didn't get that hot till 2010 a year he was behind drizzy & kanye. Drake owned 2011 & Ross fell off in 2012 while k dot came up.

 

[prophecypro]

I'd have put Kanye in 2004, maybe Nas in 2002, Game in 2005, Ti in 2006, Maybe either Wayne or Kanye in 2007, either Kendrick or Nas in 2012

But other than that, yeah I guess its straight

 

[DaveyDave]

"best" = most popular/well known that year? they don't really quantify what they mean by "best"

 

[RTF]

Ross has had it at least one year in the last 3.


Kanye West dropped The College Dropout, Late Registration and was all over Be between 04-05. At least two of those albums are classics. That's 7 million records sold in 18 months. Number one singles etc.

And he wasn't the best for either of those years?

 

[Free White & 21]

I ain't got two halfa fukks to rub together about that list before 90 and after 99

90 91 CUBE easy
95 96 PAC easy
92 I'll let em have redman for the fame, but on the real it was Treach

 

[observe]

I ain't got two halfa fukks to rub together about that list before 90 and after 99

90 91 CUBE easy
95 96 PAC easy
92 I'll let em have redman for the fame, but on the real it was Treach

"For the fame" than Hammer should be on that list..for one of those years

 

[intilectual recipricol]

niccaz got it wrong every year from 2005-present... damn shame

Also 95 is Pac... and Twista was 97

 

[Artfull Dodger]

1995 : Biggie ?
2012 : Drake ?

Being the best rapper alive off some singles ....

Complex

 

[MeachTheMonster]

How could that be a list of the greatest rapper alive every year and not list Nasir Jones the goat for every year since his birth.


shytty list

 

[OG Talk]

You notice how Tone Loc, Hammer and Vanilla Ice didn't get any love for '89-91? But Ice Cube and Q-Tip he sold a fraction of what they did are the standard?

At one point it went from being "the best emcee" to the laziness of just giving it to whoever was "most popular"...