Which rapper, at the peak of their success, had the most dominant reign?

[qawshun]

no dude i know rock with nelly i mean we watch his videos and i support the apple bottom contest but as far as running rap and hiphop no it never happend

 

[thetruth391]

smh at ya'll riding pac and of all people wayne wow what has he done besides flood the industry with mixtapes he had one stand out album and that's only because of sales and plenty of bs sells this thread goes to jay and or 50 they get my vote but jay still got dudes trying to be like him and he's 40+

your post is in desperate need of punctuation bruva

 

[therealist_]

smh at ya'll riding pac and of all people wayne wow what has he done besides flood the industry with mixtapes he had one stand out album and that's only because of sales and plenty of bs sells this thread goes to jay and or 50 they get my vote but jay still got dudes trying to be like him and he's 40+

Was this a bad thing during that time?
Hate it or Love it .. that lil queer was carring hip hop during the "Best Rapper Alive" era.
His presence (directly or indirectly) made other artist step their game up.
There was a time where you HAD to have a Lil Wayne feature on your project, (rather mixtape or album).

Wayne did features with: Jada, Andre 3000 (x2), Nas, Jay-Z, Scareface, Kanye', Bun B, Busta Rhymes, John Legend etc etc.
All of these were before "Carter 3" .. i'm assuming that is the album your talking about??

Wayne fell ALL the way off since then. But we cant say he didnt have an impact in todays sound.
I'm not a Wayne stan .. but you gotta give him a little bit of credit.

 

[qawshun]

your post is in desperate need of punctuation bruva

lol i got cha

 

[qawshun]

Was this a bad thing during that time?
Hate it or Love it .. that lil queer was carring hip hop during the "Best Rapper Alive" era.
His presence (directly or indirectly) made other artist step their game up.
There was a time where you HAD to have a Lil Wayne feature on your project, (rather mixtape or album).

Wayne did features with: Jada, Andre 3000 (x2), Nas, Jay-Z, Scareface, Kanye', Bun B, Busta Rhymes, John Legend etc etc.
All of these were before "Carter 3" .. i'm assuming that is the album your talking about??

Wayne fell ALL the way off since then. But we cant say he didnt have an impact in todays sound.
I'm not a Wayne stan .. but you gotta give him a little bit of credit.

i respect your pov but i never fell in line with him being the best alive.

 

[its....JOHN B]

dont sleep on snoops reign, from deep cover to his features on the chronic then came doggystyle, snoop was the top dogg up until the doggfather dropped then he cooled off

 

[therealist_]

i respect your pov but i never fell in line with him being the best alive.

heh .. me either ..

I got Nas beating everybody's ass for that titile, lmao

 

[Mvpbrodie93]

heh .. me either ..

I got Nas beating everybody's ass for that titile, lmao

You copped that distant relatives? That shit is still in heavy rotations fir me

 

[therealist_]

You copped that distant relatives? That shit is still in heavy rotations fir me

Yup, the first day homie.

I usually listen to an album a week straight so i can properly judge it.

I fucking love that album. I skip #6 though ..

heh.. i gotta admit .. I had to let DR grow on me .. i had to do the same for God's Son too .. lol

 

[idoitforhiphop10]

i would say this:
2006-present T.I. and Wayne era
2003-2005-50 cent/ g unit era
1998-2003- Jay Z and Eminem era
1994-1997- 2Pac and Biggie era
1992-1993- Snoop Dogg era

thats it thats all.

 

[Ajax McJones]

young jeezy, no doubt

Trap or die had all of the IC nodding thier heads.

and smh at posterssaying joe budded the guy is skilled but at the end of the day he is an internet rapper/forum rapper.

 

[isayas]

Jay-Z by far.

 

[shtoopid]

haha this nigga said joe buddens

 

[weezyfgarbage]

Jay walk a freeway without looking both ways.

wow...somebody is mad as fuck.

In recent memory:

Eminem from 2000 - 2002

50 from 2003 - 2005

Wayne from 2007-2008

all come to mind

 

[InMyLifeTime91]

its gotta be Em 1999 - 2004 or Pac 1994 - 1996

 

[onepunch]

my first response would be RAKIM 86-92..He changed the way the whole industry rhymed. But WuTang has got to be mentioned in this discussion. 94-98 they had the game on control. And i'm not talking bout no bullshit record sales and selling shoes and hats. I'm talking bout spitting ill rhymes. who was fucking with the Wu at that point?

 

[MAKAVELI25]

Let's be honest, I see Drake missing from a lot of lists. That dude is running shit right now. Hate him or love him, Summer 2009-onwards has been the Drake era

 

[Punisher__]

my first response would be RAKIM 86-92..He changed the way the whole industry rhymed. But WuTang has got to be mentioned in this discussion. 94-98 they had the game on control. And i'm not talking bout no bullshit record sales and selling shoes and hats. I'm talking bout spitting ill rhymes. who was fucking with the Wu at that point?

Wu-Tang? Really?

Never thought about about them "dominating", but interesting mention, nonetheless.

 

[Weazel]

1970/1980 = Melle Mel, Kurtis Blow

1980/1990 = LL Cool J, Rakim, Chuck D, KRS

1990/2000 = 2Pac, Dre, Snoop, Em, Wu, Jay, Kast

2000/2010 = Ja Rule, 50 Cent, Wayne...Eminem?

 

[white715]

1. I made a thread about this last week in terms of quality of Music nobody is beating Wu from '93-'97 dropped too many great albums.

2. I actually lived and listened to rap in throughout the 90s and Pac's legacy didn't come prior to his death cats listened to pac he sold a good deal of records but he certaily didn't have the rap game on lock it was too many good artists back then for that.

3. But in terms of almost world wide domination you gotta go with "The superdope homeboy from the Oaktown" nigga had shirts, microphones, backpacks, just about any piece of merchandise you could think of. Endorsement deals with KFC, Pepsi, etc and had his own cartoon in 1990. Before white America jumped on the Hip-Hop bandwagon He crossed over like no other artist had before and maybe like no other artist will again.