The Top 10 Hardest Nas Songs of All Time
Happy born day to the God Nasty Nas who just turned 49 years old recently. Imagine closing in on half a century in age and still being one of the best rappers right now .
Ranking the Top 10 Best DMX Guest Verses of All Time
Want to know how dope DMX was in his prime? Check to see how many times he’s featured last on songs with other rappers and then you’ll understand what he was a monster he was back then.
Ranking the Top 13 Best MF DOOM Guest Verses of All Time
MF DOOM isn’t just the greatest underground rapper of all time, he’s one of the best rappers to touch a mic, period . R.I.P. to an icon and hip hop legend.
Ranking the Top 15 Best Schoolboy Q Guest Verses of All Time
Schoolboy Q might very well be the low-key best feature killer to come out of TDE. Yes, of course, Kendrick has dropped some of the most iconic guest verses of the past decade, but Q is right up…
Ranking the Top 10 Best A$AP Rocky Guest Verses of All Time
As one of the best rappers to emerge from the 2010s , A$AP Rocky might be one of the most underrated MCs when it comes to his technical talents and ability to switch up the flows.
Ranking the Top 12 Best Raekwon Guest Verses of All Time
Pusha T once crowned Ghostface Killah and Raekwon as having the most timeless flows in hip hop. He’s got a strong argument for it, if you ask me.
Ranking the Top 10 Best Ghostface Killah Guest Verses of All Time
Ghostface Killah has been rapping at the highest level since 1993. That’s coming onto 30 years now. Is there any surprise that he’s one of our greatest rappers of all time?
Ranking the Top 10 Best Takeoff Guest Verses of All Time
As the most underrated Migos member with the dopest flow, Takeoff has been spitting hot bars for the better part of a decade now.
Ranking the Top 10 Best Rick Ross Guest Verses of All Time
Rick Ross might be better known for his outsized personality, bombastic anthems and luxury raps over J.U.S.T.I.C.E. League production than his lyrical acumen, but don’t sleep on Rozay, he’s a wordsmith at heart.
Ranking the Top 10 Best 2 Chainz Guest Verses of All Time
The certified Hair Weave Killer has been one of the best feature rappers of the past decade. In fact, you could credit 2 Chainz’s resurgence in the early-2010s to his ability to deliver the most memorable guest verses.
Ranking the Top 10 Best Conway the Machine Guest Verses of All Time
There isn’t a rapper alive in the game right now who’s been putting in more work on crafting immaculate bars and weaving in vivid stories in their raps than Conway the Machine.
The Best Nicki Minaj Guest Verses of All Time
Over the past 10 years, Onika Tanya Maraj-Petty aka Nicki Minaj hasn’t just cemented herself as one of the best rappers of her generation , but arguably one of the best female rappers of all time . After…
Ranking the Top 10 Best JID Guest Verses of All Time
Fresh off dropping his highly anticipated third album, The Forever Story , JID is on a mission to prove to rap fans that he’s the best rapper alive in the game right now .
Ranking the Top 10 Best Freddie Gibbs Guest Verses of All Time
Freddie Gibbs’ recording career began in 2004 when he dropped his first mixtape, Full Metal Jackit . Which means the Gary, Indiana rapper has been at it for close to 20 years at this point.
The Best Philly Rappers of All Time
Philadelphia has a rich hip hop history. While it may not have the same standing in the culture as New York, L.A. or Atlanta, Philly is the birthplace of some of the best rappers of all time .…
Ranking the Top 15 Best Young Thug Guest Verses of All Time
When Young Thug broke onto the rap scene in 2013 off the strength of the fantastic 1017 Thug and songs like “Stoner” and “Danny Glover”, he was suddenly the most exciting artist rapping in the game.
Ranking the Top 10 Best Future Guest Verses of All Time
For a rapper who made his come-up off the strength of feature appearances like “Racks”, “Love Me” and “Bugatti,” Future also has a deep catalogue of great guest verses.
Ranking the Top 12 Best Bun B Guest Verses of All Time
For the most part of the 2000s and 2010s, Bun B was low-key the guest verse killer. Sure there were rappers like Eminem, Kanye, Jay-Z, and Lil Wayne who stole most of the feature spotlight , but when…
The Hardest Rap Songs of All Time
For a culture that’s built around competition, battles and breakbeats, you could imagine putting together a list of the hardest rap songs of all time was quite a task. You could put together the list on decades, or…
Grammy Award for Best Rap Album: All Wins in History Ranked
The Grammy Award for Best Rap Album of the year has pretty much a running joke. Each year, hip hop heads wait to see the Grammys release their nominations so that we can throw our hands up in…
The 25 Greatest Jay-Z Guest Verses of All Time
Over the past couple decades Hov has been responsible for some of the best guest verses of all time . When he’s not working on his own album, he’s usually popping up on other artist’s albums to steal…
Ranking the Top Rap Songs of 2022
So it seems like a lot of rappers were holding onto their music when the pandemic started in 2020, because since the world’s started to come out of COVID-19, there’s been a flood of dope music these past…
Ranking DJ Khaled’s First Week Album Sales
Despite how you might feel about DJ Khaled’s music, you have to respect his hustle. The man has been going hard non-stop for the past two decades and he deserves to be in the position he’s in right…
Top 10 Best Jadakiss Songs of All Time
Putting together a list of the top 10 best Jadakiss songs of all time wasn’t easy. This is a rapper who has never dropped a bad verse once in his 20+ years career.
The 50 Greatest Rappers of All Time (And Their Best Song)
I think we’ve all had enough of reading lists about the 50 best rappers of all time . The peak-moment for this category when a couple years ago, The Brew Podcast posted up a list that had Joe…
The 25 Greatest Years in Hip Hop History
If we count hip hop’s official birthday as August 11th, 1973 – the same day DJ Kool Herc threw a block party at 1520 Sedgewick Avenue in the Bronx – it’s coming onto 50 years, practically still a…
Ranking The Game’s First Week Album Sales
Ever since The Game debuted in 2005 with the monumental The Documentary , he’s been one of the most consistent West Coast rappers ever, amassing a strong catalogue over the past couple decades.
Ranking Rod Wave’s First Week Album Sales
Over the past few years, rapper-singer Rod Wave has emerged as one of the most endearing and successful artists in the soul-trap movement.
Ranking Beyoncé’s First Week Album Sales
There are very few pop stars in the world who can boast of having a fanbase as devoted as the one and only Beyoncé Knowles-Carter.
The 50 Greatest Rap Posse Cuts Of All Time
One of the many things that makes hip hop music so unique compared to other genres is the concept of a posse cut.
Ranking Pop Smoke’s First Week Album Sales
First XXXTentacion was gunned down in 2018. Then Nipsey got shot and Juice Wrld overdosed in 2019. Then in 2020, Pop Smoke was tragically killed in a home invasion. It seemed like every year, hip hop was losing…
Ranking Juice Wrld’s First Week Album Sales
Emerging in the late 2010s as one of the leading rappers of the emo rap and SoundCloud movement, Juice Wrld was tragically taken away too soon at just 21 years old.
Ranking Kehlani’s First Week Album Sales
Growing up in Oakland, California, Kehlani was introduced to legendary R&B and neo soul artists, like Lauryn Hill, Erykah Badu and Jill Scott which formed a core musical influence for them in the early years.
Ranking Ty Dolla Sign’s First Week Album Sales
Since breaking out in the early 2010s, Ty Dolla Sign’s voice has become synonymous with dope R&B hooks on the hottest rap songs.
Ranking PartyNextDoor’s First Week Album Sales
PartyNextDoor has long been the secret weapon in the OVO Sound camp. The Toronto singer, songwriter, rapper and producer has been a staple on Drake since 2013.
Ranking XXXTentacion’s First Week Album Sales
XXXTentacion was a troubled but brilliant artist. There’s no denying that he had the innate talent for creating music that resonated with a huge audience.
Ranking Frank Ocean’s First Week Album Sales
As enigmatic and reclusive as Frank Ocean can be, don’t get it twisted, the singer-songwriter is a powerful commercial force in the music industry. Even more so now that he’s an independent artist.
Ranking Ne-Yo’s First Week Album Sales
When Ne-Yo first debuted in 2006 with In My Own Words , he was an instant phenomenon in the R&B world. Boosted by massive singles like “So Sick” and “Sexy Love”, the album topped the charts with 301,000…
Ranking Alicia Keys’ First Week Album Sales
With a recording career spanning the past two decades, Alicia Keys has been a staple voice in the hip hop and R&B worlds. From dropping massive singles like “Fallin'”, “My Boo”, and “No One” to featuring on global…
Ranking Jhené Aiko’s First Week Album Sales
Over the past few years Jhené Aiko has slowly emerged a powerful commercial force in the music world, with strong selling albums and more Grammy nominations coming her way.
Ranking G-Eazy’s First Week Album Sales
G-Eazy’s major label debut album, These Things Happen , dropped in 2014, but the rapper had been grinding for a minute to break into the rap game.
Ranking Joey Badass’ First Week Album Sales
The time that Joey Badass allows himself to take in between albums is the ultimate testament to his patience as an artist, as well as confidence in his fanbase.
The 40 Best Rappers of the 1990s
The 1990s was the peak golden age of hip hop music. Don’t get it twisted, each rap decade since the ’80s has been special in its own way, and I’m certainly not one of those hip hop heads…
The Best Lil Wayne Guest Verses of All Time
Lil Wayne ain’t your average MC. He started with the Hot Boys, puttin’ Cash Money on the map. Back in ’99, he dropped “Tha Block Is Hot,” showin’ he had the skills. But it was in the mid-2000s…
The 25 Best Rap Duos Of All Time
In recent years, there’s been a ongoing trend for big-name hip hop artists putting out a one-off collaborative album. Think Jay-Z and Kanye, Drake and Future, Offset and 21 Savage, Lil Baby and Gunna, Future and Juice Wrld,…
The Best Hip Hop Songs of the 2010s
Never has hip hop music been as varied and divergent as it was in the 2010s. Coming into the new decade, the kings reigning over the Billboard charts were, predictably so, Eminem, Hov, Kanye, and Lil Wayne.
Ranking the 18 Most Lyrical Drake Songs of All Time
Drake’s the man, a chart-toppin’ machine, but with all the pop hits and dance crazes, some forget he can spit serious bars. Yeah, he ain’t droppin’ crazy flows like Kendrick or Cole, but that don’t mean his rhymes…
Ranking Roddy Ricch’s First Week Album Sales
Coming into the game off the strength of his debut commercial mixtape, Feed tha Streets , Compton rapper Roddy Ricch struck fire when he dropped “Die Young” off the sequel half a year later.
Ranking the 15 Best Lil Baby Guest Verses of All Time
Over the past few years Lil Baby has evolved from an up-and-coming Atlanta rapper into one of the biggest hip hop artists in the game today. A lot of that success has had to do with his ability…
Ranking Rihanna’s First Week Album Sales
Rihanna’s superstardom in the music world was pretty much instantaneous. Her debut album, Music of the Sun , was a major hit, featuring massive singles like “Pon de Replay” and “If It’s Lovin’ that You Want”, both which…
