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

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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"...

2014 Nicki isn't the best or even the most popular. She's just the most famous to release a retail album :scusthov:...
 

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2014 Nicki isn't the best or even the most popular. She's just the most famous to release a retail album :scusthov:...


same goes for those other picks like eminem & drake.

they werent the most popular either. just the most famous.

RIP hip-hop
 

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Are cats joking about Jeezy?

Dude changed hiphop had every rapper change their style in someway and TM101 was perhaps not the best album (Kanye dropped LR and Common dropped Be). But he had the biggest influence on hiphop in perhaps the whole decade after Wayne and Kanye with that album (and the mixtape game, to make mixtapes sound like albums), gave Dj Drama a real platform and on.

...but that didn't make him the "best rapper alive", doe...

...hell, around that time Luda was killin' chit...
 

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jeezy is the most impactful & nfluential rapper of the past 10 years
 
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