snoozers that still sold, quality varies depending on who you ask

Cant even name me a top rapper from that time besides eminem and wayne who both had major hits with drake during that same era

Google what Thank Me Later sold first week

Like do some of yall know how ridiculous you sound LMAO

Drake was on a number 1 with rihanna in 2010

even nicki first album outsold drake first album in total. he was "on top" on his 2nd album

looking forward to see you all mocking op come back crawling to apologize after OVO uses neuralink to rob unreleased lyric databases of every other industry rapper

you thought AI pac was huge huh

450.000 first week

2009, So Far Gone came out in summer. He was not the number one rapper off So Far Gone...2009, I would say Jay-Z, Kanye West, Eminem were the big rappers. Lil Wayne was important too.

2010 was Eminem's year. Kanye dropped MBDTF, Lil Wayne had two big albums (one was a rock album). B.O.B. was bigger than Drake this year as well.

2011 was Eminem, Wiz Khalifa, Nicki Minaj, Jay Z & Kanye (Watch the Throne), Lil Wayne (Carter IV). Drake had hot features. Take Care didnt even reach #1 the week it came out because of Carter IV. I'd put Drake at the upper level here but he wasn't "number one" yet.

2012 Drake might have been top 3 since a lot of the big names didnt drop.

2013 you have Nothing Was The Same, which was big, but you shouldnt forget that Eminem dropped a big album, Kanye dropped, Jay dropped as well, Wale dropped (he was still big at the time), Mac Miller dropped, and Macklemore was having an insane run (now mostly forgotten about)

The mega stardom of Drake was when Views was about to drop. At that point you couldnt deny his fame and he became very successful overseas as well, mostly due to pop songs like One Dance or Hotline Bling

The rap domination I would say started in 2014 with an amazing feature run. When he dropped two big tapes in 2015 and he won against Meek Mill he was the new top dog. Before that he always shared the crown with others

Niggas in Elementary was on RapRadar and 2DopeBoyz getting news about JCole, Big Sean & Wiz in they emails as they bumping Charles Hamilton, XV, Blu & Asher Roth too frfr they was on AudioMack when it still allowed downloads frfr niggas was born with an internet connection

Niggas knew Kendrick when he still had the Dot frfr and bumping Beam Me Up Scotty by Nicki all day with the baddies at lunch time frfr

20 dollar concerts and all that frfr

Mac Miller when the boy was still Eazy Mac before the blue slides frfr straight in kindergarten all day frfr

Bruh , watch the throne only exist because ye and jay were scared of drake.

Recovery sold 741.000 first week, so what?

Forced Jay Z and KanYe to release a collaboration album the next year because he was becoming too big.

Ur too young to speak as if you knew what was going on back then

So listen to your OGs or write about zoomer s*** instead

What do you mean by best? Best quality?

Nobody thought Drake was bigger than Jay-Z or Kanye in 2011 besides Kanye's paranoid mentally ill ass

Drake surely wasn't bigger than Eminem either

Thank me Later was hated by most people (I personally liked it). Drake hates the album until this day. That album didnt put him on top.

Hyperbole.

Over & Find Your Love weren’t ringing off everywhere.

smooth brain

KanYe literally said it.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billboard_Year-End_Hot_100_singles_of_2010

You can check the numbers yourself

B.O.B. Airplanes or Eminem Love the Way You Lie was more popping than any Drake song

Find your Love is #32 on the list

And it's a Kanye throwaway track btw which Kanye produced and wrote

WTT happened because of B.O.B.