The 3 biggest acts in hip-hop currently. This is not up for debate after Utopia imo. Travis proved he is past Kendrick.

replaced kendrick but not j cole?

the big 3 is your d***

kinda think the big 3 discussion is done now that it’s essentially dominated by legacy artists, rather than up and comers. Hip hop receding out of the limelight it seems.

Edit: but you’re not wrong, Kendrick’s decisions to drop rarely and release the album he did this last time around has kinda led to him lagging. Kendrick didn’t really strike while the iron was hot over these last few years, in the same way that Drake or even J Cole did.

Coles last album performed really well. Kendricks album performed very poor. Just going off recent numbers i’d say this is the current big 3

Kendrick never hosted a festival

lil baby snub

Nah Kendrick is bigger then Cole IMO

This what Kid Cudi did to Hip-Hop

I somewhat think this is true as well

No

Bro snuck cole in there

4 months and did a million

Oh so big three just means numbers

So Eminem must be in the big 3 since he sells the best

Yup if we go by numbers it's only Drake that fits in this top 3

Cole took like 7 months

Drake is not part of no big 3 please update your understanding of the hip hop genre

It’s drake and then a HUGE gap

Then you can make whatever 3 lists you want

Title itself looks so stupid. Drake Travis and Cole lmao

Yeah, big 3 can’t really be just about numbers. It needs to refer to a current class of rap artists. When Drake and J Cole and Kendrick were the big 3, their sales could’ve been challenged by previous cohort artists like Eminem, Kanye, Jay.

travis did bundles tho

this might be the only place where i've seen people keep trying to make a big 3

not really he took like 11 months to do a million

Well this is ops thread so we gotta play by his rules here

If Cole is only big 3 because he sells well, lil baby and Eminem both wash him

Idk why he even made a thread when he can just look at the billboard website and realize his list doesn't fit his criteria

Reddit dot com baby

And r/music is way f***ing worse than how they do it here. Mfs will say hopsin and get 100 upvotes

So the criteria is now the race to a mill?

Not fws?

Why do the people writing these threads not give the exact criteria they want met in order to dictate the top 3