Apr 9, 2024‘20s really haven’t have any new contenders for the spots outside of Carti. Still consider Travis a ‘10’s artist, I was listening to him literally 10+ years ago and he seems to have already been ubiquitous by like 2016.
Apr 9, 2024·1 reply
OVOJerseyye (who beat him and took his spot) Wayne em all bigger and better than 50 for the entire decade and HOV literally dropped like 3 classic albums so unfortunately he's gotta bow out lol
Yeah that 2000s boy had heavy hitters
- Apr 9, 2024BonelessWings
Yeah that 2000s boy had heavy hitters
They all wanna say 90s was golden era when it was 100% the 2000s
Apr 9, 2024·edited·3 repliesOVOJerseyIn the 90s he released arguably the greatest rap album of all time in reasonable doubt.. in 2000s he had black album BP1 BP2 and American Gangster.. if HOV wasn't the hottest rapper of this era then it must've been an ice age lol
96-97 (Reasonable Doubt/IML Vol 1): Pac and Biggie (RIP ❤️), Ma$e and P. Epstein
98 (Vol 2.): DMX (Back to Back #1 albums and saved tf out of Def Jam)
99 (Vol 3.): DMX again!
2000 (Dynasty) : Em and Nelly easily (Both went Diamond 💎)
2002 (BP2) : Em (w/ Eminem Show and 8 Mile)
2003 (Black Album): 50 (w/ Get Rich and Die Tryin)
Skipping aheaddddddddd
2006 (Kingdom Come): TI (but Wayne's runner up)
2007 (American Gangster): Kanye easily (literally was the most loved rapper of that year
)HE MADE GRADUATION NIGGAAAAAAA
2008-2010: WEEZY F BABYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY
BUTTTTTT THERE'S ONE YEAR THAT I FEEL HOV HAD THE GREATEST YEAR OF CAREER
2001
The Nas vs Jay-Z beef 
Blueprint 1
Bringing out MJ at Hot 97
- Apr 9, 2024·1 reply
I'm still going to stand ten toes down and say BP1 is Hov's greatest work of all time.
- Apr 9, 2024·2 repliesKee
96-97 (Reasonable Doubt/IML Vol 1): Pac and Biggie (RIP ❤️), Ma$e and P. Epstein
98 (Vol 2.): DMX (Back to Back #1 albums and saved tf out of Def Jam)
99 (Vol 3.): DMX again!
2000 (Dynasty) : Em and Nelly easily (Both went Diamond 💎)
2002 (BP2) : Em (w/ Eminem Show and 8 Mile)
2003 (Black Album): 50 (w/ Get Rich and Die Tryin)
Skipping aheaddddddddd
2006 (Kingdom Come): TI (but Wayne's runner up)
2007 (American Gangster): Kanye easily (literally was the most loved rapper of that year
)HE MADE GRADUATION NIGGAAAAAAA
2008-2010: WEEZY F BABYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY
BUTTTTTT THERE'S ONE YEAR THAT I FEEL HOV HAD THE GREATEST YEAR OF CAREER
2001
The Nas vs Jay-Z beef Blueprint 1
Bringing out MJ at Hot 97
Again em ye and weezy all in my 2000s big 3.. im just saying you can't make this decade by decade list without putting hov in 90s or 2000s. I appreciate your work here tho and you bring up good points but HOV waxes 50 and dmx on flows lyrics and just about every rap category besides numbers I guess lol. I'm an Eminem fan I've been in this argument a billion times and it's hard to discount HOVs actual body of work (not just figures which still matter but quality is also key)
- Apr 9, 2024·1 replyOVOJersey
Again em ye and weezy all in my 2000s big 3.. im just saying you can't make this decade by decade list without putting hov in 90s or 2000s. I appreciate your work here tho and you bring up good points but HOV waxes 50 and dmx on flows lyrics and just about every rap category besides numbers I guess lol. I'm an Eminem fan I've been in this argument a billion times and it's hard to discount HOVs actual body of work (not just figures which still matter but quality is also key)
Ngl making this list just makes me die at the fact that a bunch of 90s Glazers (Both late Gen X and Early Millenials) still trash 2000s Rap and do a full blown revisionist history.
While us 2000 Kids see that this era was no f***ing slouch
- Apr 9, 2024Kee
Ngl making this list just makes me die at the fact that a bunch of 90s Glazers (Both late Gen X and Early Millenials) still trash 2000s Rap and do a full blown revisionist history.
While us 2000 Kids see that this era was no f***ing slouch
Fax. Anyone claiming 2000s wasn't arguably the best era of rap is a delusional twitter fiend lol
Apr 9, 2024·editedKee96-97 (Reasonable Doubt/IML Vol 1): Pac and Biggie (RIP ❤️), Ma$e and P. Epstein
98 (Vol 2.): DMX (Back to Back #1 albums and saved tf out of Def Jam)
99 (Vol 3.): DMX again!
2000 (Dynasty) : Em and Nelly easily (Both went Diamond 💎)
2002 (BP2) : Em (w/ Eminem Show and 8 Mile)
2003 (Black Album): 50 (w/ Get Rich and Die Tryin)
Skipping aheaddddddddd
2006 (Kingdom Come): TI (but Wayne's runner up)
2007 (American Gangster): Kanye easily (literally was the most loved rapper of that year
)HE MADE GRADUATION NIGGAAAAAAA
2008-2010: WEEZY F BABYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY
BUTTTTTT THERE'S ONE YEAR THAT I FEEL HOV HAD THE GREATEST YEAR OF CAREER
2001
The Nas vs Jay-Z beef Blueprint 1
Bringing out MJ at Hot 97
Yep
- Apr 9, 2024Kee
I'm still going to stand ten toes down and say BP1 is Hov's greatest work of all time.
I fw The Black Album more tbh but they both classics
- Apr 9, 2024OVOJersey
Again em ye and weezy all in my 2000s big 3.. im just saying you can't make this decade by decade list without putting hov in 90s or 2000s. I appreciate your work here tho and you bring up good points but HOV waxes 50 and dmx on flows lyrics and just about every rap category besides numbers I guess lol. I'm an Eminem fan I've been in this argument a billion times and it's hard to discount HOVs actual body of work (not just figures which still matter but quality is also key)
Yea I think Hov is the better than DMX & 50 too it’s more than that
- Apr 9, 2024·editedKee
96-97 (Reasonable Doubt/IML Vol 1): Pac and Biggie (RIP ❤️), Ma$e and P. Epstein
98 (Vol 2.): DMX (Back to Back #1 albums and saved tf out of Def Jam)
99 (Vol 3.): DMX again!
2000 (Dynasty) : Em and Nelly easily (Both went Diamond 💎)
2002 (BP2) : Em (w/ Eminem Show and 8 Mile)
2003 (Black Album): 50 (w/ Get Rich and Die Tryin)
Skipping aheaddddddddd
2006 (Kingdom Come): TI (but Wayne's runner up)
2007 (American Gangster): Kanye easily (literally was the most loved rapper of that year
)HE MADE GRADUATION NIGGAAAAAAA
2008-2010: WEEZY F BABYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY
BUTTTTTT THERE'S ONE YEAR THAT I FEEL HOV HAD THE GREATEST YEAR OF CAREER
2001
The Nas vs Jay-Z beef Blueprint 1
Bringing out MJ at Hot 97
Ludacris, Ja Rule & Gorillaz sold more than Blueprint in that year but yea that’s his prime in terms of art quality + popularity & he was the best
Apr 9, 2024Jay was bigger in the 2000s than the 90s
He was not top 3 in the 90s
Big, DMX, Pac & Snoop were all bigger lol
- Apr 9, 2024·edited
Actually Jay wasnt top 3 to 4 of any era
A year here n there sure
The great thing of Jay was consistency & able to stay relevant better than any other rapper along with Kanye n Em
But there were many rappers bigger than him in sales and rep overall 90 percent of the time
Apr 9, 2024
Bo Ceephus2020's gonna be the first decade without a big 3.
This new s*** is low tier AF
I see no lies.
- Apr 9, 2024
MR MUCUS2000s had so many GOAT rap superstars
Nelly & Luda deserve HM too
We lack passionate musicians in this era. I will and should blame social media and all the other distractions attached to it
Apr 9, 2024·1 replyxxxkiraxxxU count him as a rapper?
The Chronic dropped in 1992 and 2001 dropped at the end of 1999
- Apr 9, 2024
2020’s big 3 definitely has carti
- Apr 9, 2024·1 replyMDK
The Chronic dropped in 1992 and 2001 dropped at the end of 1999
I know
- Apr 9, 2024·edited·1 replyxxxkiraxxx
I know
Going by your criteria, Dre should be up there over Nas, Jay Z and Biggie lol
Apr 9, 2024·1 replyRap is the only genre where people talk about s*** along these lines or acting as if having “classic” albums or high sales means anything. Of course it means something, but nobody into rock, jazz, punk, or any number of sub genres talks like this.