http://www.complex.com/music/2013/03/the-best-rapper-alive-every-year-since-1979/

1979: Grandmaster Caz
1980: Kurtis Blow
1981: Kool Moe Dee
1982: Melle Mel
1983: Run
1984: Run
1985: LL Cool J
1986: KRS-One
1987: Rakim
1988: Slick Rick
1989: Big Daddy Kane
1990: Ice Cube
1991: Q-Tip
1992: Redman
1993: Snoop Doggy Dogg
1994: Nas
1995: Notorious B.I.G.
1996: 2pac
1997: Notorious B.I.G.
1998: DMX
1999: Jay-Z
2000: Eminem
2001: Jay-Z
2002: Eminem
2003: 50 Cent
2004: T.I.
2005: Young Jeezy
2006: Lil Wayne
2007: Kanye West
2008: Lil Wayne
2009: Jay-Z
2010: Kanye West
2011: Drake
2012: Drake
2013: Kendrick Lamar

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they was good up into about 98 and than shit goes haywire

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had to click through & type it, but figured I'd save everyone the trouble. their breakdowns list their best/biggest songs that year, etc.

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looks like a list of the most popular rapper of every year lol

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>http://www.complex.com/music/2013/03/the-best-rapper-alive-every-year-since-1979/
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>1979: Grandmaster Caz
>1980: Kurtis Blow
>1981: Kool Moe Dee
>1982: Melle Mel
>1983: Run
>1984: Run
>1985: LL Cool J
>1986: KRS-One
>1987: Rakim
>1988: Slick Rick
>1989: Big Daddy Kane
>1990: Ice Cube
>1991: Q-Tip
>1992: Redman
>1993: Snoop Doggy Dogg
>1994: Nas
>1995: Notorious B.I.G.
>1996: 2pac
>1997: Notorious B.I.G.
>1998: DMX
>1999: Jay-Z
>2000: Eminem
>2001: Jay-Z
>2002: Eminem
>2003: 50 Cent
>2004: T.I.
>2005: Young Jeezy
>2006: Lil Wayne
>2007: Kanye West
>2008: Lil Wayne
>2009: Jay-Z
>2010: Kanye West
>2011: Drake
>2012: Drake
>2013: Kendrick Lamar

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but i agree with snoop for '93.

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this isn't best rapper, it's who had the #1 spot.
so bearing that in mind...

-86 and 87 should be swapped.
-slick rick over chuck d in 1988 is a head-scratcher.
-treach should have gotten 1991.
-redman came out too late in 1992 to give him that year. probably should have gone to das-efx or q-tip
-ja rule or ludacris should have gotten 2001. i'd have personally given it to luda as he had way more stuff out every month.
-not giving ja rule 2002 is a complete re-writing of history.
-kanye not getting 04 was another head-scratcher, but ok.
i guess urban legend was THAT big of a deal according to noz.
-09 unquestionably should have been drake as he was everywhere.
-12 should have been 2 chainz or somebody else.

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>-slick rick over chuck d in 1988 is a head-scratcher.


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"When the music stops he falls back in the abyss."

that ol' white pop. demo bias the mind squad held still pervasively creeping into the opinion-shapers of today.

no problem giving props to eminem though. lol.

giving jay 2001 over luda and ja rule is incorrect.
not giving ja 2002 is flat-out an attempt to erase him from history.

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the Chuck D shit is inexcusable

read them

>read them

i'm not giving you or your unqualified, penny-counting, du-rag sniffer constituents any ad revenue by clicking.

figured it was your handy work, but if not somebody equally as much of a hack.

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Kudos.

>http://www.complex.com/music/2013/03/the-best-rapper-alive-every-year-since-1979/
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>1979: Grandmaster Caz
>1980: Kurtis Blow
>1981: Kool Moe Dee
>1982: Melle Mel
>1983: Run
>1984: Run
>1985: LL Cool J
>1986: KRS-One
>1987: Rakim
>1988: Slick Rick
>1989: Big Daddy Kane
>1990: Ice Cube
>1991: Q-Tip
>1992: Redman
>1993: Snoop Doggy Dogg
>1994: Nas
>1995: Notorious B.I.G.
>1996: 2pac
>1997: Notorious B.I.G.
>1998: DMX
>1999: Jay-Z
>2000: Eminem
>2001: Jay-Z
>2002: Eminem
>2003: 50 Cent
>2004: T.I.
>2005: Young Jeezy
>2006: Lil Wayne
>2007: Kanye West
>2008: Lil Wayne
>2009: Jay-Z
>2010: Kanye West
>2011: Drake
>2012: Drake
>2013: Kendrick Lamar

Yea....going by who had the most buzz in each of these years? I....can't really say it's a bad list to be honest.

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gotta force that MIKE JORDAN OF RAP narrative at every opportunity.

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By no means is BP3 a great or even good album but that song became every white person's anthem for a few years and was the first big hit Jay-z had post-retirement. KC & AG didn't do much to get ppl excited, but after "Empire State Of Mind" he became invincible and probably more beloved than 2003 levels

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have shit like "Find your love" in 09!

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i have to go back and listen to it, but i remember Jay-z introducing a lot of flows on that album and then noticing a lot of rappers biting those flows on their songs/albums post BP3. Especially the Empire State of Mind flow.

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I mean it doesn't seem that different than his flow on "Hello Brooklyn" or "Lost Ones" but maybe I have no idea what I'm talking about

most folks will disagree with a lot of the years
but thats the point i guess

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i think he probably reached his full zenith in 2001, right?
but then you could argue "hot in here" and "dilemma" locked him in for 2002.

erased.

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I wouldn't take it too literal. No way the best rapper changes every year. But I can see the hottest rapper changing every year.

And since the grammies are no indicator of the years best in hip-hop, who else is trying to identify the hottest rapper each year?

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either 1980 or 1981.

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Rakim and Nas are still alive so I'm not sure how anyone else is getting mentioned for "best" rapper alive in any of these years.

Like others said, this is a list of "hottest" rappers.

Cuz fuck your feelings...Nas in 2013 is still better than anyone you can name.

>Cuz fuck your feelings...Nas in 2013 is still better than
>anyone you can name.


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>Rakim and Nas are still alive so I'm not sure how anyone else
>is getting mentioned for "best" rapper alive in any of these
>years.

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I mean if you're going to do almost every other year based on popularity and then pick that for 2005 then you're just a revisionist.

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all those guys have a claim to at least 1 year.

lol at nas only being listed once.

and bammer is right : if this is a "hottest mc" list, as it appears to be, then guys like luda, nelly and ja are in the convo.

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in fact, i think it's difficult to overstate just how influential he was that year, and it's not something that can necessarily be gleaned just by looking back at album sales or singles charts or magazine covers, anything along those lines. it was a "you had to be there" type of thing.

when I think of 92 hop hop, puba's definitely the first person that comes to mind. dude was one of the first legitimate style icons in hip hop culture. every dude in my high school was trying to dress like him. the ralph lo and tommy hil rugbies, the backpacks, the baggy girbauds and guess jeans. that early 90s proliferation of Lo Head culture was all him (and zhigge, to a lesser extent). niggas was showing up to the b boy sets in full ralph lauren duck hunting ensembles and shit lol. shit was crazy.

throw in the fact that his mary j collabos basically changed the direction of hip hop
for the next few years, as far as legitimizing credible mcs x r&b features, and i think he's gotta get that year. i mean, i guess i can see a tip or redman argument but nah.

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>in fact, i think it's difficult to overstate just how
>influential he was that year, and it's not something that can
>necessarily be gleaned just by looking back at album sales or
>singles charts or magazine covers, anything along those lines.
>it was a "you had to be there" type of thing.
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>when I think of 92 hop hop, puba's definitely the first person
>that comes to mind. dude was one of the first legitimate style
>icons in hip hop culture. every dude in my high school was
>trying to dress like him. the ralph lo and tommy hil rugbies,
>the backpacks, the baggy girbauds and guess jeans. that early
>90s proliferation of Lo Head culture was all him (and zhigge,
>to a lesser extent). niggas was showing up to the b boy sets
>in full ralph lauren duck hunting ensembles and shit lol. shit
>was crazy.
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>throw in the fact that his mary j collabos basically changed
>the direction of hip hop
>for the next few years, as far as legitimizing credible mcs x
>r&b features, and i think he's gotta get that year. i mean, i
>guess i can see a tip or redman argument but nah.

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low end crazy, eastside crazy, wild hunnids crazy, englewood crazy.

but big probably should have taken 94, too (although ready to die came out in september and illmatic came out in april).

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Dude was everyone's favorite MC for a few years regardless of how Tical hit.

From CREAM to Method Man, to Bring the Pain, to All I Need, to ALL the Wu features, to the Biggie and Pac features.

Dude was the shit!

36 chambers came out at the very end of 93, and he definitely can't compete with snoop for that year anyway. so we're left trying to say meth was more highly regarded than nas or big in 94. no dice.

tough luck, clifford.

dumb it down and superstar...he was the best spitter and he had a big hit.

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That's kinda late to give him 07. He'd be in the running for 08 but Weezy Mania was at its peak during that time.

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Given that Superstar is really the only time people have heard of Lupe (outside of his anti-Obama antics), he's just a one-hit wonder, and should be treated like all one hitters in the foray of mainstream music.

>Given that Superstar is really the**********only time******** people have
>heard of Lupe (outside of his anti-Obama antics), he's just a
>one-hit wonder, and should be treated like all one hitters in
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I mean he had buzz coming off being on tons of end of year lists for 2011, then got signed to Aftermath, toured with Drake and then dropped "The Recipe" & "Swimming Pools". The latter being a huge hit that even ppl that hate radio songs could get behind. IMO at the end of the year Kendrick Lamar was on a lot more ppl's mind than Drake.

like every pop star is gonna want a verse from him, or say they're in the studio with him, working on something, etc.

maybe i'm mistaken


also like guinness said, gkmc came out end of last year

I mean it's the easiest way to climb the ladder without releasing new music your. Kinda like letting everyone else do the hard work while you benefit. I mean it did wonders for Nas after he did Illmatic he did some of the best guests verses in hip hop ("Eye For An Eye", "Fast Life", "Verbal Intercourse").

As for the album coming out in October, that's fine but it leaked before that and he dropped "The Recipe" & "Swimming Pools" way earlier. That combined with being on the Club Paradise tour, signing with Aftermath and being on almost every end of year list. It's clear who was on everyone's top rapper list at the end of the year, Drake I can't say was that.

kind of surprised Hammer didn't get 90 since they going popular with a lot of these years

can't go both ways.

Somebody argued that Chuck D deserves 89, and if you wanna say "Kane wins 89 bc he was hotter/more popular, then Hammer or even Vanilla Ice should get 90 or 91." And someone also argued for Nelly somewhere in the early 2000's.

Even with Jeezy getting 05, but Ross not getting 2010...cases can be made

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>kind of surprised Hammer didn't get 90 since they going
>popular with a lot of these years

LOL

I have a feeling they ain't wanna say "Jay-Z" or someone else again that year

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And I said:

2011 - Drake
2010 - Rick Ross
2009 - Rick Ross
2007-2008 - Wayne
2006 - Jeezy? Wayne? Or was it Jay-Z?
2005 - 50 cent
2004 - Kanye?
2003 - 50 Cent
2002 - Nelly? Still Ja Rule?
2001 - Ja Rule
2000 - Emimen, or Ja Rule
1998-1999 DMX
1997 - Biggie...then Puffy? Master P?
1996 - 2Pac

>1996: 2pac
>1997: Notorious B.I.G.
>1998: DMX
>1999: Jay-Z
>2000: Eminem
>2001: Jay-Z
>2002: Eminem
>2003: 50 Cent
>2004: T.I.
>2005: Young Jeezy
>2006: Lil Wayne
>2007: Kanye West
>2008: Lil Wayne
>2009: Jay-Z
>2010: Kanye West
>2011: Drake

Pretty damn close to what they said.

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hits and albums from 99 on... no one on that list, probably with the exception of Em has that claim. who cares if he was ever the hottest, (usually a claim for the guy with the biggest single really), he was ALWAYS right there next to them and AND WHEN THEY FELL OFF JAY WAS STILL THERE

>hits and albums from 99 on... no one on that list, probably
>with the exception of Em has that claim. who cares if he was
>ever the hottest, (usually a claim for the guy with the
>biggest single really), he was ALWAYS right there next to them
>and AND WHEN THEY FELL OFF JAY WAS STILL THERE


But I was really making a point that whoever is "hottest" in the game seems to sizzle out fast.

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he's never had a platinum album, and Port of Miami is still his highest selling LP. since his "reign" only Teflon Don has gone gold

like others have said the ubiquitous nature of certain singles skews the value of artist. in this day and age folks literally love songs and they don't know names or artist, they just attach sounds to their out and about moments

i even remember some one like Chelsea Lately who fronts like she's down with the negros refer to him as a producer on her show one night

He just never seemed to cross over tough

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Funny thing is from 97 on, everyone of those rappers on complex's list crossed over. Which is why Bammer got a good point that Nelly and Ja Rule deserved a couple of them years