Jay was bigger but T.I. was hotter. Hence why King outsold kingdom come overtime and t.i. had a larger impact.

So is King!

Production is like 1/3rd of what makes an album good. King had better hits. LR had the biggest rap hit that year by far, and one of the most known 2000s rap songs. I really don't know why yall bringing up hits cause while King did have wyk, gold digger is huge.

Tbf Gold Digger alone is bigger than all those songs. It's one of the biggest songs on U.S. radio of all time too.

at the absolute top? 1 year. Being a top rapper? Like 5 years

well yeah gold digger is huge. It's also more accessible of a song and sampled a classic ray charles song so it makes sense considering ray died around that time anyways.

So kanye wins in 1 out of the other 3 categories. Quality is one factor and it's a pretty subjective factor cause if we go by that CII is better than LR. And what you know is def one of the most memorable songs of the 2000s

i mean he really isnt talking about which songs were bigger pretty sure he means better.

Why don't people credit kanye with having some presence at the top along with wayne during grad? Wayne dominated the streets and kanye dominated the airwaves

expeditiously

He did have the top spot for a couple years.

Cause Wayne had both

So he was the king for a couple years?

Wayne had both hits and the streets on lock!

Wayne was bigger on the airwaves than kanye when stronger and good life were out?

Not airwaves cause Kanye had crossappeal

Yes. Wayne was on like 100 songs in 07. Every1 put that man on their songs because they knew he was on fire. He was drake before drake when it came to that. It's why Kanye said on the lollipop remix "it's a wayne song so you know its gonna melt"

lil wayne's reign started in 2006 t.i.was never "The One"

He’s only the king of the south because him and Wayne had that competition and T.I. won.

Otherwise he ain’t the king of s***

And tbh that s*** gotta be given to Thug

Pimp is a legend and forever a staple in the south/hip hop in general but he never dominated with record after record the way Tip did

I think Wayne was king of hip hop, at the time his presence transcended above just being associated as one of the greatest from the south