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

[patscorpio]

Drake being the best rapper in any year..terrible

 

[kermit da hustla]

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.

Kendrick has never came up. Only cacs and lame nikkas listen to him.

 

[blackslash]

Drake being the best rapper in any year..terrible

Well...he's killed features on the hottest songs of 2012 and all his songs and lines have turned into cliches for the urban community...Its only right he's heralded that title

 

[DStyles]

2004 and 2005 should belong to Fif and 2006 should be T.I.

and :deadware:@ Kendrick getting 2013 when the year ain't even over yet.

 

[Danie84]

How does Drake make the list twice

 

[OG Talk]

How does Drake make the list twice

By the metrics they were using I don't see how they didn't give Nicki Minaj atleast one of those years...

And Flo-Rida and Will I Am had to have been in the discussion a couple of those years... If not than they just aren't respecting the game

 

[L. Deezy]

Not a Ja Rule fan... but he missin off one of these years

 

[Harry B]

One of the least awful lists these cacs has made.
2012 belongs to Nas as well if 2013 is K dot and 2011 Drake.

 

[Illeye buckmatic]

Besides 94,I'm giving NaS 02 and 12:naswon:

 

[I.AM.PIFF]

This is more like the most popular rapper than best. Jigga in 09 ? GTFOH.

 

[dora_da_destroyer]

come to think of it, i woulda gave drake 09 - so far gone was just a mixtape and had everyone talking, "best i ever had" was huge and "every girl" and "forever" were also everywhere.

Drake - 09, 11
K-dot - 12
Leave 13 blank since we have a long way to go - with drake, nasty, ye, and tyga set to drop, nothing has been decided

 

[Lefty Gunz]

T.i. over Wayne in 06

 

[mson]

nikkas really fuked wit Qtip like that?I'm really askin genuinly cuz I don't know...but the year Cube dropped Death Certificate y'all wuz on Qtip that heavy that he gets the spot over Cube? I would think Chuck D or Cube could split 90,but out of respect let Cuck have 90 and Cube have 91 and 92....again I like Redman but y'all wuz fukin wit Redman like that?u think he could outrap Cube if they went up head to head?did he outsell Cube or sum suprising shyt? Snoop should have 93 and 94,Doggystyle got released late 93 I believe and he wuz still ridin the wave into 1994....the same reason they slidin biggie into 95 is why u gotta slide snoop into 94 imo...RTD dropped 94 but had the big singles come out in 95....96 obviously goes to the gawd

Redman can out rap Cube. We can make a thread and go head for head. A tribe called quest was big back then, but I still wouldn't give it to Q tip.

 

[hiphopfanatic]

That's actually a pretty good list. Save for a few, I wouldn't change it. Though I think I would give whatever time frame "Recovery" dropped to Eminem.

 

[The_King_of_Everything]

2013 ain't even over yet