• Rap's Overall Big 3 - The 80s:

Rakim
Ice Cube
LL Cool J

HMs: Grand Master Flash, Run DMC & Big Daddy Kane

• My Personal Big 3 - The 80s:

Ice Cube
Rakim
Eazy-E

HMs: Kool G Rap, Ice-T & LL Cool J

• Rap's Overall Big 3 - The 90s:

2Pac
Biggie
Nas

HMs: Wu-Tang Clan, Snoop Dogg & DMX

• My Personal Big 3 - The 90s:

2Pac
Outkast
DMX

HMs: Scarface, Mobb Deep & Spice 1

• Rap's Overall Big 3 - The 2000s:

Lil Wayne
Kanye West
50 Cent

HMs: Jay-Z, Eminem & T.I.

• My Personal Big 3 - The 2000s:

Kanye West
Lil Wayne
50 Cent

HMs: Jay-Z, Missy Elliot & E40

• Rap's Overall Big 3 - The 2010s:

Drake
Kendrick Lamar
J. Cole

HMs: Nicki Minaj, Future & Travis Scott

• My Personal Big 3 - The 2010s:

Kendrick Lamar
ASAP Rocky
Big KRIT

HMs: Rick Ross, Pusha T & Waka Flocka Flame

• Rap's Overall Big 3 - The 2020s, SO far:

Lil Baby
Playboi Carti
Gunna

HMs: Tyler the Creator, Lil Uzi Vert & Lil Durk

• My Personal Big 3 - The 2020s, SO far:

Kenny Mason
Ray Vaughn
Mach Hommy

HMs: OvrKast, Baby Keem & MAVI

😡 🗣️ FOR the eventual internet-only Rap fans crybaby nerd(s) that will post in the thread whining about the "Big 3" label:

• The Big 3 has always been a thing in Rap. It is a mix of high skill, high success, major genre impact and high culture love in the mainstream - all wrapped up in one package. Yes, there might be a Rapper better in one of these areas, but they arent the quadruple threat. The big 3, all at least high tier in the 4 metrics across the board. The Rap artists that literally defined the decade of the Rap culture and industry. And then there is a "tier 2" that people often look favourably on and were close to or in close competition to becoming tier 1.
  And its like 90% agreeable with "everyone".

But RIP to the real 2020s kings that were the biggest than any of the current 2020s & all their post-death albums that outsell nearly all these niggas still:

Juice Wrld
XXXTentacion
Pop Smoke

Then the 3 HMs of the proper 2020s would probably be:

Playboi Carti, Drakeo the Ruler (also RIP) & Lil Baby - in my humble speculation. Maybe even King Von over one of them (also RIP). So many genuine stars that fell down man. That's 5 alone, and 3 that were already and would continue to be guaranteed major players.

Still wild how all three of them died and caused the 2nd biggest alternate timeline shift in our genre that changed everything - 1st being 2Pac and Biggie. It's depressing and bull how we're the only genre that have to deal with this like that.

Kenny Mason

Eminem
Slim Shady
Marshall Mathers

@SegaDreamFlash you might love this

Future
Kendrick
Tyler

Tyler
Kendrick
Cudi

Is the 2000s the only undisputed one?

Whoa this too much

doja
carti
doechii

My personal 3:

Yasiin Bey (Mos Def)
3000
Cam’Ron

80’s

LL Cool J
Slick Rick
Too $hort

90’s

Nas
Biggie
OutKast
HM: 2pac

00’s

Kanye
Wayne
50
HM: Common, TI, Jeezy

10s

Future
Kendrick
Kodak Black
HM: Rick Ross

20’s

RXK Nephew
Nas
454

James Brown, Funkadelic & Gil-Scott Heron is the Big 3 of the 70s for Rap btw

This is fax fr.

James Brown birthed Mystikal

My modern Big 3 is Kendrick, Tyler, and Doechii
My All time is Eminem, Ye, and Tyler.
And that is for rappers (or at least artists who rap regularly) only. If it included all artists, Able would be in both
EDIT: swapped Doechii and JID in the modern one. Knew I was forgetting someone, lol

I always listen to a lot of Gil-Scott Heron around this time of year, he deserves his flowers

That 2020s lineup is so sad man

ain't no big 3 in 2020s

I can dig Rappin'