Well, excussssse me. I didn't know It was that time of the month for you; so tell me - Tampons, or Maxipads? I can't have you bleeding all over this thread.
He's icy cold, granted - but deep down I kmow he loves me even if he never shows it, and certainly haven't said it since I was in a cradle, if, at all.
Well, here's the thing. People need to understand that there is a big difference between bestand top with rap. For example, Drake is the king of rap right now, but you could easily make an argument that he isn't top 5 in terms of raw skill. In another way, you could make an argument that Biggie isn't a top 5 rapper besides flow and storytelling, but in terms of just being a top rapper in influence? Biggie is undeniably top 5 without question. Just too much influence on the culture.
To me, the top 5 rappers in terms of influence/dominance sales wise within the new school are:
1. Drake
2. Kendrick Lamar/J. Cole
3. Nicki Minaj
4. Big Sean/ASAP Rocky( Both Had one of the highest opening sales weeks with 170+K opening week, and have numerous hit singkes)
5. Meek Mill
The reason why I put Meek here, is that despite going to jail last year and pretty much lost all hype for his album, is being projected to push 200+ K. 200+K is something only about 4 or 5 new school rappers can do, so for Meek to do that with no hype is crazy.
@wolverine08: Hmmm, I like your reasoning, it mirrors mine in regards to the difference betwen greatest and best in pretty much in other genre's to be honest.
Another thing that made me laugh when I thought about is how people use Lil Wayne as an example of bad new schoolers when negus has been rapping since when Biggie was releasing his first singles
@wolverine08: Always preferred Wale to Mills TBH. Kinda sad he hasn't got his really big break yet
I've always found it weird that Meek is decent amount more popular than Wale. This current generation doesn't really gravitate much towards street people. If you look the guys everyone is going crazy over like Drake, Kendrick, Cole, etc. none are doing street shit(I know Kendrick is from the ghetto, but he doesn't really rap about iin the sense that he was putting in work) Wale's style of rapping about regular shit works perfectly really. Meek is pretty much this generation's DMX, which makes it odd to me that he got such a strong base going for him.
Wale does pretty well though. The Album About Nothing pushed 100K opening week, and that's damn good in this current era of leaking and illegal downloading.
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