grammy-winning rapper eminem may finally have gotten his wish for respect as an emcee as renowned music publication rolling stone has crowned him king of hip-hop.
After compiling factors like album sales and social networking, em easily outperformed his competition.
With his dominant album sales, youtube views and social-media scores, eminem takes the title as the current king of hip-hop. Unlike our queen of pop ranking, which lady gaga took in a walk, marshall mathers's win was somewhat closer - note the fairly tight point range among our top three. (rolling stone)
close contenders included rap stars jay-z, snoop dogg and kanye west.
The magazine ranked 20 solo rappers, including drake, lil wayne, jay-z, kanye west, rick ross, snoop dogg and more. The publication looked at album sales, social media presence, youtube page views, concert grosses, industry awards, critics' ratings and more. Em, who was the world's best-selling musical artist of the first decade of the 2000s with more than 32 million albums sold, had 7.5 million in album sales during the period rolling stone examined, more than 1.3 billion youtube views and 48 million twitter and facebook followers. That was enough to land him ahead of lil wayne (no. 2) and drake (no. 3), though rolling stone cited drake as the artist to watch in the year ahead.