Thouxandbanfauni
Xxxtentacion
Night Lovell

Uzi Trippie X

Obscure underground artist lil Uzi

Obscure underground artist XXXTENTACION

OP on the same logic as me

to be fair, in 2016, X WAS underground

lil peep!

nigga who tf is night lovell

UnoTheActivist

Chris Travis
D Savage
ICYTWAT

its not really a big 3, there was so much going on at the time

Where’s Uno???

probably Trippie, XXX, and Uzi/Boogie cause they blew up later that year

im not a fan of the suicide boys but they were pivotal for underground rap scene becoming more popular

pollari
warhol.ss
robb bank$

#2PhoneShawty

as long as we going by 2016 status !

im not even a fan but this is facts

The only correct answer is X, Uzi, and Trippie

Artist: X, Lil Peep, Carti

I place those three because of the direct connection that their origin collectives have to Soundcloud.

Big 3 Artists: X (Members Only) Lil Peep (GBC) Carti (Awful at one point/ASAP/and now OPIUM)

Big 3 for this era is hard though because theres guys like Trippie, Uzi, and Juice that can easily be placed in the rankings depending on your perspective. They were vital parts of the era and the blueprint that was carried out by others but, their come ups were very different from the 3 mentioned but should still be mentioned. (Uzi was like 2-3 years deep of being pushed by Don Cannon, Trippie blew up overnight, and so did Juice..idk its just different)

Sidenote Shoutout to Night Lovell..he was the biggest rapper of this whole list at one point..maybe in like 2014/2015. A lot of the original producers behind X came up working on Concept Vauge. FiftyGrand being one of them. Thats one of the first legit projects to come from the underground in that time period. I wouldn't say he is top 3 but he is apart of the cultural shift post Raider Clan and post Goth Money.

Night Lovell and ICYTWAT were important bridges in similar ways in that time period and interestingly enough they were both originally producers.

the XXXTENTACION vibe

2015-2016 was beast mode for them too