50 Cent got destroyed on wax by Jadakiss and The Game in 2005 but still did big numbers with the Massacre and the GRODT movie soundtrack.

Scorpion makes Massacre sound like GRODT

Yeah but it wasn't a come-up because Wayne was already well-established. Birdman just did him dirty because Birdman is a scumbag

Wayne def had the best comeback of 2018 though, C5 was a moment and "Uproar" was huge

Trav went from barely clearing 80,000 first week to becoming a global superstar in 2018. Other than Drake and Kendrick there wasn't anybody in rap bigger than him, and he eventually surpassed Kendrick commercially

when u consider that drake was responsible for the biggest song off astroworld, it's not even a question

This admittedly did not include exposing that he was hiding a child and knocked up a p***star

Drake

"God's Plan" was everywhere during that time.

I love Trav, seeing him live tomorrow, but 2018 was so blatantly Drake's year it's not even a serious discussion. 2023 is his year too

I know God's Plan is technically bigger but I felt like
"In My Feelings" was the song that year

Which is weird because, while good, "Nice For What" is a classic and in the same vein stylistically and while it was huge, it def wasn't bigger than In My Feelings, let alone God's Plan which I personally thought was mediocre

cmon bro that cant be a real question

Gods plan is like 15x platinum
Travis biggest song from that year is a drake feat.
This isn’t even a discussion
Scorpion is going to be a diamond album and have 3 diamond records when its all said and done. Thats insane

2023? Rap was kind of weak this year so I don’t know who’d I say this year belonged to, but I wouldn’t say it was Drake

Imagine if this released officially instead of Drake only

damn yall bored fr

I initially wouldn't've said that either because Utopia did bigger numbers first-week, but the staying power of FATD is pretty self-evident. The discrepancy in first week sales was truly due to a lack of physicals on Drake's behalf, he's still the biggest rap artist out overall

And I personally thought FATD was his best since 2017

And SH3 was fire

Trav being very easily the second biggest rapper in the game after the controversy he's been embroiled in is a hell of an achievement though, but I think his popularity has probably peaked

I don't think it's possible for Drake to get bigger musically because I think the saturation point's been reached. He's never gonna beat Taylor but in terms of rap he's unstoppable lol

True but Drake has been the biggest rapper out like every single year since 2013 though, that doesn’t mean every year was his. It’s more than just a sales thing.

I think For All the Dogs was pretty good too but it feels like it didn’t make as big of a cultural splash as some of his previous albums did, and it also so released so late in the year that I think it’s disingenuous to say the entire year belonged to him.

Honestly I would argue that this year was Metro’s if not anybody else

They tryna turn the Drake Coalition against Trav’s Ragers

Papis Angels I think you mean sir

Drake

For some reason I have a gut feeling that Metro is going to go out of the stratosphere next year

idk I still feel like this was Drake's year. Her Loss was still going strong in 2023, "Meltdown" was crazy, and then his album dropped

This was very much Drake's year

Cardi B and Kanye but out of these choices Astroworld did way more for Travis career and position than Scorpion did for Drake

Travis

Kanye is nowhere near the top spot for 2018 lmao

Ye hasn't had a year to himself since 2010