Where do you rank Kendrick’s current run?

[PHamm]

This is not a great take music was in a different place back then. Music is way harder to sell in this era because of streaming. 50 had mtv and all the other musical avenues. Kendrick is dominating where the odds aren’t in his favor and shyt like Trl and 106 and park are not existent. nikkaz had to be on TV a lot to sell units. Also 50 didn’t have over 10 years under his belt. By the time he was Kendrick’s age he was washed.

Not to mention 50s music itself is a couple tiers below Dots

 

[28 Gramz]

Hes not bigger than any of them

Maybe dmx

Not close. Social media making shyt seem larger than life.

His wave isn't bigger than 05 Jeezy.

 

[Love Sosa]

Can’t say that at all, his last album is what… double platinum in the streaming era? Cmon fam. Not Like Us was a huge viral song and the Super Bowl was a good look but he is not 03 50 cent or 08 Wayne

 

[SNG]

Can’t say that at all, his last album is what… double platinum in the streaming era? Cmon fam. Not Like Us was a huge viral song and the Super Bowl was a good look but he is not 03 50 cent or 08 Wayne

You right he bigger than Wayne at 37 Wayne had the Carter 5 and pretty much demoted to club tours and 50 was pretty much outta hip hop.

 

[Love Sosa]

You right he bigger than Wayne at 37 Wayne had the Carter 5 and pretty much demoted to club tours and 50 was pretty much outta hip hop.

 

[Mank1nd]

#1

 

[Ziggiy]

50 was pandemonium, they were considering making a whole GTA G-Unit game. Get Rich sold 900k the first week and 800k the second. In Da Club was literally the biggest song in radio history. Everything he touched was a hit. He dominated every race and age group. Kendrick is massive right now, but outside of the week NLU dropped and the super bowl, it doesn't feel like 50 to me.

Outkast was just as, if not bigger than 50 in 03. Hey Ya was number 1 for nine weeks. The first song to ever reach one million downloads on iTunes back when that meant something. For 8 of those nine weeks, The Way You Move was number 2. Hey Ya literally brought the Polaroid camera company back from bankruptcy.


50 was a supernova for sure. But Outkast was undeniable. They shared 2003. Kendrick ain’t sharing 2025 with anyone, his reign as the undeniable number 1 artist is unchallengeable.

 

[Iverson_64]

Outkast was just as, if not bigger than 50 in 03. Hey Ya was number 1 for nine weeks. The first song to ever reach one million downloads on iTunes back when that meant something. For 8 of those nine weeks, The Way You Move was number 2. Hey Ya literally brought the Polaroid camera company back from bankruptcy.


50 was a supernova for sure. But Outkast was undeniable. They shared 2003. Kendrick ain’t sharing 2025 with anyone, his reign as the undeniable number 1 artist is unchallengeable.

I'm not a Drake fan like that but he's still the most streamed rapper of this year and made a decent comeback with that PND project.

Project was just okay but that Nokia song is going viral right now and he's still able to dominate.

 

[Devil Plisken…CMS]

I addressed this in my first three sentences. Kendrick is benefiting from the global mainstreaming of hip hop, where it’s basically synonymous with pop culture and lower case p pop music.

Rappers can headline super bowls. That wasn’t a thing in other eras.

Thanks for using your brain. Since people don’t understand rap it’s natural their liable to say whatever

 

[Barney Rubble]

Outkast was just as, if not bigger than 50 in 03. Hey Ya was number 1 for nine weeks. The first song to ever reach one million downloads on iTunes back when that meant something. For 8 of those nine weeks, The Way You Move was number 2. Hey Ya literally brought the Polaroid camera company back from bankruptcy.


50 was a supernova for sure. But Outkast was undeniable. They shared 2003. Kendrick ain’t sharing 2025 with anyone, his reign as the undeniable number 1 artist is unchallengeable.

In Da Club entered the charts in January 2003, Hey Ya entered in October and didn't hit number 1 until December. Both spent nine weeks at number 1, but Outkast's was mostly in 2004. 2003 was 50's.

Billboard Year-End Hot 100 singles of 2003 - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

 

[Ike omad]

Can’t say that at all, his last album is what… double platinum in the streaming era? Cmon fam. Not Like Us was a huge viral song and the Super Bowl was a good look but he is not 03 50 cent or 08 Wayne

Double platinum already, with only 12 tracks? the streaming era = the most songs = the better sales...billboard already confirmed no album has ever reached the numbers of GNX with only 12 tracks lmao.

 

[Ziggiy]

I'm not a Drake fan like that but he's still the most streamed rapper of this year and made a decent comeback with that PND project.

Project was just okay but that Nokia song is going viral right now and he's still able to dominate.

Drake is the most streamed rapper based on catalogue, we’re talking about the YEAR 2025 and in this YEAR Kendrick’s got the top charting song (10 weeks and counting) , the most viewed performance (Superbowl) the highest grossing tour (while Drake had to cancel his Anita Wynn Max shows) and Not Like Us hasn’t left the top 20 since its release in 2024.

The only thing Drake is dominating is court filings at this present time.

 

[Ike omad]

I'm not a Drake fan like that but he's still the most streamed rapper of this year and made a decent comeback with that PND project.

Project was just okay but that Nokia song is going viral right now and he's still able to dominate.

Drake has +500 songs available on streaming, Kendrick only 200...

kendrick numbers are far more impressive than Drake, his average of streams per song destroy drake numbers.

 

[verhonggen]

Probably the single most impressive run in rap history.

-Rap Song with the most GRAMMY wins EVER (5x — Not Like Us) - won in general categories too, something that is very, very rare for hip hop
-SuperBowl
-The MOST watched Super Bowl Halftime show EVER (133.5M viewers)
-The record for Rapper with the MOST all-time Spotify monthly listeners (110M)
-First rap song to ever be eligible for 2x diamond (Humble)
-Critically Acclaimed album
-First attempt for a rapper at a full stadium tour and it's being a success (international tour instantly sold out)
-Highest grossing concerts for a black man in music history
-First album under 15 tracks to reach these numbers in the streaming era
-Tied Michael Jackson record with the most #1 hits on the hot 100 in the span of 12 months - He produced four number 1 hits, faster than anybody else before
-On pace to beat Eminem for the longest charting song at #1 for a rapper
-His tour is impacting the industry, they're already changing the concert models after Kendrick performance
-...

There's way too many to list.

Kendrick isn't just beating one or two records, he's breaking them all!!! And like billboard said, nobody in music thought it was possible for a 12 track album like GNX to pull these numbers in the dsps era, this is the equivalent of going 2x platinum first week in 2000.

 

[verhonggen]

Kendrick is definitely having the most impressive run a rapper ever had. Objectively.