The Best Rapper For Every Year Since 1979 [Complex]

[CarlosDelgothoes]

Well Actually, Future Was the Best Rapper Alive in 2015
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Future barely a rapper tho

"Future, with his woozy disaffection and pockets full of spite, is the cold culmination of this “lean-induced self-involvement,” as the music critic Julianne Escobedo Shepherd recently put it."



I swear to god you could put a dying wombat in a studio and these mothafuckas would find a way to make it sound artistic.

"ah yes, Officer Wombles clearly captures the nihilistic scream of life in a perfunctory death rattle of sound. 8.7"

[step one]

Shitty clickbait for idiots to debate on twitter

[TheBigSleep]

This kinda thing has been done before (here on the forums even I think) and it usually goes something like this. If they had titled this most popular rather than best, that'd be closer to what they're listing here, but that wouldn't have that Complex clickbait ring to it.

And so obviously the way they're doing it makes it much easier to quantify. Partly I think because there's rarely a true and actual public consensus as far as absolute top skill level goes in the more recent years, especially as there continues to be more and more outlets for more and more rappers. Taste starts to divide around the end of the '90s and early 2000s during the rise of Napster and MP3s flooding the internet, even in terms of who is or was paying attention to what.

The illustrations were kinda cool though.

[Escobar305]

Well Actually, Future Was the Best Rapper Alive in 2015
http://www.complex.com/music/2016/01/fu ... than-drake" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Future barely a rapper tho

"Future, with his woozy disaffection and pockets full of spite, is the cold culmination of this “lean-induced self-involvement,” as the music critic Julianne Escobedo Shepherd recently put it."



I swear to god you could put a dying wombat in a studio and these mothafuckas would find a way to make it sound artistic.

"ah yes, Officer Wombles clearly captures the nihilistic scream of life in a perfunctory death rattle of sound. 8.7"

drake really a rapper? or does QM/OVO HUSH/Detail really get that honor and he's really just a puppet/kid actor?

#meekain'tneverlietothepeople

[CarlosDelgothoes]

mfw i tried to find out what year Meek ruled hip-hop



or ross

or push

or diddy

DRAKE X 3 X TROPHIES X OVO

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Diddy has had more impact on rap music (indirectly or otherwise) than pretty much anyone else in the last 20 years. That run Bad Boy had in the late 90s/early 00s laid down the blueprint for a lot of things.

[Career Over Like Mike(NJJ)]

Max B and Boosie were both killing shit in 2009.

A couple of the homies were involved in this so I'm not gonna talk shit, but I had to stop reading when they credited Spoonie Gee's Love Rap as a Treacherous 3 song in the 1980 section.

[Escobar305]

Ross easily owned 2009-2010
Pusha owned 2006
Puff owned the 90s

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You're an idiot, stop posting

[Dan]

1988 - Chuck D

[CarlosDelgothoes]

Pusha owned 2006

[step one]

1988 - Chuck D

list is mostly for people who'd struggle to name more than 10 rappers that debuted in the 80s though.

[CarlosDelgothoes]

Shitty clickbait for idiots to debate on twitter

Proceeds to comment more in the thread than anyone else

[Employee]

Complex is Buzzfeed for Retarded Devotees Devoted To Retarded Shit About Rap.

[step one]

Shitty clickbait for idiots to debate on twitter

Proceeds to comment more in the thread than anyone else

[CarlosDelgothoes]

Complex is Buzzfeed for Retarded Devotees Devoted To Retarded Shit About Rap.

Insanul Ahmed and Rob Kenner are significantly better than you at writing

thas why u got cut from Steady Bloggin

[Employee]

START A THREAD ABOUT ME, BRO.

[CarlosDelgothoes]

Drizzle and Blastmaster are significantly better than you at writing

thas why u got cut from Steady Bloggin

[Employee]

START A THREAD ABOUT ME, BRO.

[Tweak Da Leak]

Agreed with Esco that Ross should've been on the list somewhere

[david111]

Gucci is the obvious 2009 choice

[drizzle]

Gucci is the obvious 2009 choice

Charity that shit

[TheBigSleep]

Going by skill level, it probably looks something closer to...

1979: Grandmaster Caz
1980: Kurtis Blow
1981: Kool Moe Dee
1982: Melle Mel
1983: Melle Mel
1984: Run
1985: LL Cool J
1986: Rakim
1987: Rakim
1988: Slick Rick
1989: Big Daddy Kane
1990: Ice Cube
1991: Scarface
1992: Kool G Rap
1993: Myka N9ne
1994: Pharoahe Monch
1995: GZA
1996: Breeze Brewin
1997: The Notorious B.I.G.
1998: Big L
1999: DOOM
2000: Andre 3000
2001: Masta Ace
2002: Scarface
2003: DOOM
2004: DOOM
2005: Sean Price
2006: Black Thought
2007: Pimp C
2008: eLZhi
2009: Jay Electronica
2010: Roc Marciano
2011: Danny Brown
2012: Ka
2013: Billy Woods
2014: Freddie Gibbs
2015: Kendrick Lamar

[Dusty Fingers]

kool g rap every year

[Escobar305]

Pusha owned 2006

[unbelievable dickhead]

2004-2009 were absolute shit

[The Ivy League Nigga]

I know it's probably too underground for Complex's tastes (and maybe this board's too?), but MF Doom's 2004 is pretty much undeniable.

[EMCEE DARTH MALEK]

DOOM is too underground for ??? ru srs

[The Ivy League Nigga]

DOOM is too underground for ??? ru srs

Look at this thread. Puffy and Nelly are mentioned without a hint of irony. You sig shouts out Drake and you haven't been sonned out of existence. 2016 PF is not 2001 HHI.

[CarlosDelgothoes]

2016 PF is not 2001 HHI.

Thank fuck

someone listed Mika 9nin9 or however the fuck it's spelt and Breezy Brewin like we're still pretending cramming 19 syllables into one bar = talent.

Drake is better than both of them put together.

Drake single-handedly ended the career of Meek Mill and backed down Common and Jay-Z like it was nothing

Breezy Brewin puffed his chest out on Life's Ill and then collapsed into a nervous breakdown of apologies when Will High called him out for it.

Drake could probably beat up Will High if he wanted yo.