Stop it. Your nominations are exclusively mutliple-platinum-selling artists. I mean 50 and Eminem both had albums that went diamond, Carter III was the biggest selling album of the year. To act like they're the only people the hip hop pantheon admits is absurd. KRS went gold a few times, back when people were still buying albums. But those albums are classics! Their status has nothing to do with some girls you dated's familiarity with Black Cop. But if we're going popularity, it's not solely measurable in album sales anymore. Madvillainy songs showed up in indie sampler albums that had nothing to do with rap. DOOM gets respect from Thom Yorke AND Nas. Accordion has almost two million hits on youtube. Madvillainy made every best of the decade list. Hip hop has room for different kinds of legends. Em is a legend! Doom and Madlib are just a different kind of legend!