Biggest Rappers
After teasing this post for more than a month, I have finally completed my list of biggest rappers right now. I am considering commercial success, reputation, name recognition, and other factors along these lines. I broke them into two tiers based on whether I think they have a case to be among the top names or just missed. I also have sections for popular artists who are not in their prime and just missed the list, artists who have a case to be included but are likely in other genres, and some artists to watch for the future. As a note, I excluded artists who are not active or have indicated that they will likely not be active. For example, Childish Gambino will not be included on the list because Donald Glover has indicated he will be retiring the project. I also excluded Logic who had previously retired but is returning from retiring. I have also excluded DaBaby because I’m not sure anymore what his popularity is for the short or long term giv...