Yeah it came out in May 2021 lmao

Wonder what it’d be without her loss

Best bar of the year fo sho tho

I don't show ID at clubs, 'cause they know that I'm 21 (Woah, 21)

i feel like skill wise Durk is only a little bit better than 21 tbh
he has a good chance at being rapper of the year bc of being a huge artist but I think "Best Rapper Alive" should be a more skill based thing not just on visibility

when someone like Wayne had his campaign he was actually trying to be the Best. not just make hot songs

I rock with both 21 and Durk as artists but this is a different conversation

Im not mad at it

Are we really pretending like it doesn’t make perfect sense for it to be 21? Bro was everywhere in 2022 lmao

Complex literally exists to make pop culture clickbait articles to “create a discussion” at this point

Embarrassing stuff

they created genius for bars like this

Come on

Everybody knows who it should be, but like a similar situation to voting fatigue like LeBron James got with NBA MVPs!

Probably less but not by a whole lot, he’s getting a ton of monthly listeners from The Weeknd and Metro as well

dissrespectin GOAT Nas and gettin on club house gun talk gets u promoted to Rapper of the year now huh

Covid got my perception of time all f***ed up

should’ve been glorilla

complex is just buzzfeed for black people

The math is based on one listen, there aren’t actually 60,0000 million continuous listeners a month. Like I could play one song and never listen again it will count to the total

Still... This also applies to every other musician.

i don't know anyone who would say 21 Savage was the Best Rapper out in 2022 in real life

when you look at the entirety of the list it makes even less sense

21 Savage in 2022 considered in the same breath as Kendrick in 2017?

2006 Wayne?
HOV in 2001?
Pac in 96?
Ice Cube in 1990?

they just didn't wanna give props to someone like Kendrick or Drake or even Lil Durk bc they've been here too long

Wrong choice too.

Never denied that, why I don’t care about this stat

Classic

Why is everybody surprised?

Publications are all politics at this point

crazy how tame this thread is rn but if they picked kendrick itd be a b****fest itt