Pharrell and Tyler the Creator both spring to mind

Rick Ross easily.

Snoop

kendrick lamar

Drake

Kanye

tyler

Eminem
Tyler
Drake

gotta be tyler... bro went from an edgy kid saying shock value s*** for attention to an artsy fartsy industry darling, everything he does feels either performative or pretentious, there's no real human authenticity in any of it

I’d say rocky now days nothing feels genuine since he lost his confidence

Travis actually the best answer his personality is a mold of different peoples ideas

Iayze up there

eminem

drake

Performative as in what? Playing a character? I feel like that’s Eminem. He’s the biggest, the best at it, and took character rapping to ridiculous heights

Performative as in pandering insincerely….hmm that’s a better question. Kendrick has already been mentioned, Tyler has been mentioned, Gambino is up there. Could maybe make a case for Drake

don't think eminem was particularly performative... bro really was that d***ged out guy who witnessed some s*** as a kid and was raised in a generation that genuinely fetishized shock value and lacked a moral compass, his success was largely driven by the fact that he was so authentic, for better or worse

with tyler it's a different story... he was just a huge eminem fan and tried to follow that playbook because he wanted to be like that, not realizing that tides started shifting... none of it was genuine, he was just a kid who wanted to be perceived as cool and did a complete 180 when he realized people no longer fw that s***, ppl will call it "growth" but nothing about dude is growth, he's always been a pretentious narcissist, he is talented tho

It’s easily Kanye

Pusha T gotta be the most performative, least called out rapper lmao. nigga plays a d*** dealing demon who values the opinion of white writers and models fashion for LV x IDF

really anyone associated with that fashion house - Kanye, Rocky, Tyler, Pharrell, Jay-Z. especially Jay, Tyler and Ye. all used their white awarded speeches to argue that they or someone else deserves a different white award . Never heard any male rapper use their moment to have a MJ type humanitarian speech

really any rapper who consistently needs a proximity to white people when they step out. Dot and Drake is up there too, Drake panders to the lowest medium he can find lmao. dude said whimsical rap is leading the genre yet hadn’t performed in the country in damn near a decade 🥀

you can definitely start seeing who’s performative when you just a***yze their moves and why they’re making them lmao

MF Doom is up there too.

Dude had like 4 alter egos and based albums around them.

For your 1st point, it's got to be Rozay simply because it doesn't end with the music.

Ross literally risked his life feuding with the GD's even after a drive by shooting, pretending to be a d*** lord and threatening to send hundreds of goons at them lol.

And he rarely breaks character even in his deepest interviews. Ironically, the closest he got to breaking character was in one moment during his feud with 50 in 2009 when he initially found out about 50 pimping out his baby mama.