Cole (double platinum with no features). Vote for who you think are the freshest new age rappers currently in the hip hop game. Feel free to add any missing rap artists who deserve more recognition. 1 Kendrick Lamar 26,027 votes Agree or Disagree? A prolific wordsmith, this Compton ...
Also ranks #10 on The Best Emo Rap Artists Also ranks #15 on Who Is the Best Rapper Under 25 Right Now? Buy atView on AMAZON 19 Chief Keef Finally Rich, Back From the Dead, I Don't Like 8,501 votes As one of the pioneers of the Chicago drill music scene, this rapper's una...
A lover of art and literature from an early age, Ross attended Albany State University on a football scholarship, but it was the vibrant Miami music scene that ignited his passion for rap. Ross began his professional music career in the early 2000s, initially penning lyrics for artists such ...
What some modern day hip-hop fans and rap artists fail to realize are the women in hip hop that opened the doors and paved the way for today’s top female artists. Since the 1980s, there have always been a female rap artist that was at the top of the rap game, and the below list...
As Billboard celebrates the 25th anniversary of the Hot Rap Songs chart, which made its debut on March 11, 1989, we've delved into the tally's history to countdown the top 100 rap songs, and here we dive even deeper and list the top 50 Rap Songs artists,
While clearly not large enough to sustain as big as a rap scene as its European counterparts, countries like France, Germany, or the U.K., but Dutch rap artists have clearly solidified themselves within hip hop as the rise in international and global hip hop has led to a market in the ...
LogicSir Robert Bryson Hall II, better known as Logic, is one of the most influential artists in the rap game today. He was Born on January 22, 1990, in Gaithersburg, Maryland and first gained major fame through making 2013's edition of the XXL Top-10 Freshmen List and has easily becom...
MF Doom, like Kool G Rap, is highly respected by other, far more popular rap artists, but never rose to stardom himself. It’s not stopped him from having widespread success in the underground scene and even bridging over to voiceover work for cartoons. ...
In the year 2014, TIME Magazine named Reminisce “One of the seven World Rappers You Should Meet” and in the same year, the biggest music site in Nigeria, NOTJUSTOK, named him one of the top three hip hop artists of the year.
Some artists don’t see the warm light of the mainstream due to their offensive lyrics. 2 Live Crew, on the other hand, saw fame (and lawsuits) because of just that. The Miami rap collective delivered nasty club cuts after nasty club cuts, from “Me So Horny” to “Pop That Pussy.”...