Three distinct lanes, remarkable catalogs, and have helped shape modern rap in remarkable ways. They've stood the test of time and are still commanding presences in hip hop making quality music.

Future my favorite atm, but historically I'd put Kendrick as the top spot. Tyler amazing too.

Oh brother

Big three bait thread in 2026

Tyler huh

Man...I thought this thread was bumped from 2024.

This is like horrible timing when Drake and Cole dropped some of the best rap albums this year lol.

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We gonna act like Tyler didn't reinvent the Internet landscape for hip hop?

The real big 3 is Unilever, a16z and the Dominicans at the IMF

Drake most certainly did not drop one of the best rap albums this year lmao

They not ready for this one

Kendrick and Tyler lane arent that diffrent as far as appeal

Piensa en tu familia mmg

The real thread is here op. Back off.
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I think the concept of the big 3 is dead after the 2024 beef until it naturally happens again with all new faces between now and the early 2030’s

I’m actually hoping for a more general loose top 5-7 in the game like the 2000’s with Wayne Kanye Jay TIP Luda 50 Eminem

Big 3 has always been around in some way “Biggie Jay Z or Nas” but the way we looked at it in the 2010’s was on some Drake sells exponentially more records than niggas and Cole and Kendrick are his closest contemporaries

They're pretty different man. Kendrick is a more respected lyricist and appeals to the old school values of hip hop but in a modernized fashion.

Tyler is the strongest inheritor of the artistic legacy of guys like Kanye West, an all encompassing artistic visionary that can be lyrical at times, but also doesn't rely heavily on lyricism as the center of their artistic repertoire. He's a producer first, though he's a very strong lyricist/rapper and writes his own bars

Replace with Tyler

Different era but Gucci incredible

Ment replace Em with Tyler in the story

Yes they are.

Tyler's more of a musician while Kendrick is more of a lyricist.

Niggas ain't putting Tyler in the same convos as Nas, Jay, Em, Wayne, Pac, Big, and Lupe as a rapper. But Kendrick is in those convos.

He can spit but that's not really his lane. Hell, that's Earl's lane more than Tyler's. But Tyler is in the convo of great hip hop artists.

Tyler helped shape modern rap over Travis, Thug and Carti?

he didn’t? Wiz was doing Day in the Life in 2010

Respectfully shut the f*** up with this

The real big 3 is rent, anxiety, and Spotify Premium.