The dictionary defines rapper as “an individual who performs rap music or speaks the phrases of a rap track.” With that, rappers had the most effective 12 months ever. In 2021, rappers dominated the charts, the headlines, and the streams and gross sales. It was virtually as if there have been no different genres existed. Purists can cry foul if they need, these guys and gals are placing up numbers, making historical past and paving a method for all of Hip-Hop in some ways. Lets re-live people who made energy strikes.
Drake
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Drake moved into god-like rap ranges in 2021 for quite a few causes. The Canadian stored followers and critics alike ready with baited breath as he ready to drop his Licensed Lover Boy album. To carry everybody down, in March, he launched Scary Hour 2, a 3-song EP that featured Rick Ross and Lil Child. When CLB lastly dropped, it was a strong outing that had its share of critics. However, Drake’s star didn’t dim one bit. The truth is, it obtained brighter as he remained one of many largest pop stars on the earth. That standing didn’t cease him from changing into a fixture in Hip-Hop as he celebrated his thirty fifth birthday with The Final Rap League at Til Demise Do Us Half. Merely put, Drake did it to loss of life, with a wide range of cameo appearances, chart-topping music and a highly-touted kiss-n-make-up with Kany West.
Lil Durk
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Lil Durk greater than vyed for the crown, he principally took it. He was not the pop sensation that Drake was, he nonetheless managed to high the charts sufficient to tie Taylor Swift for essentially the most hits in 2021. All of this jumped off on December 24, 2020, when The Voice dropped. Durkio’s sixth studio album was a direct hit and set him on the true highway to greatness. Then he and Lil Child dropped The Voice of the Heroes, which they toured in assist of regardless of the pandemic. He had songs with Drake (“In The Bible”), Pooh Shiesty (“Again in Blood”), Coi Leray (“No Extra Events”) and several other others. He even obtained engaged to his longtime ride-or-die India Royale. That’s two crowns. 👑👑
Child Keem
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Child Keem is destined to be considered one of rap’s subsequent megastars. It doesn’t damage that he’s cousins with reclusive champon emcee Kendrick Lamar. Keem is one other animal utterly. Whereas he’s not precisely a brand new artist, in 2021 he took the sport by storm. The Melodic Blue, his debut studio album, formally hit on September 10, 2021. A Columbia Information and pgLang launch, the album was filled with heavy weights like Travis Scott, Don Toliver, Brent Faiyaz and cousin Kendrick Lamar. A complete of 4 singles landed the album on the Billboard 200 chart with an estimated 53,000 whole albums moved. Future awaits.
Polo G
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Polo G busted a shot and 146,429,819 YouTube views later he trully manifested what he rapped. “Rapstar” was atop all of the platforms that mattered, together with Spotify and Apple Music. (The author of this piece is carrying a Polo G hoodie proper now.) Workforce Polo G put within the work round advertising and selling his third album Corridor of Fame, it was virtually assured a basic. He even fought again Lil Nas X’s “Montero (Name Me by Your Title)” to remain number one so run inform that. Polo continued to use stress all 12 months, even sampling MJ’s “Dangerous” on “Dangerous Man (Easy Prison.” The audacity is a bit half why the 22-year outdated Cap A Lot will seemingly preserve bussin’ in 2022.
Moneybagg Yo
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Everyone is aware of about Moneybagg Yo, yo. When Morgan Wallen (the singer that used the N-word) desires to get again in good with The Blacks, who does he title? Lil Durk, Kendrick Lamar and Moneybagg Yo. In 2021, A Gangsta’s Ache hit definitively. The unique model featured Future, Tripstar, Polo G, Lil Durk, Kaash Paige, Big30, Jhené Aiko, and Pharrell Williams after which he spun the block with a deluxe model that had new songs with Lil Wayne, Ashanti, EST Gee, Pooh Shiesty, Large Homiie G, Yung Bleu, Janiyah, and the omnipresent DJ Khaled. Bruh! Moneybagg’s choices felt so dominant because of a bevy of collabs and massive outings just like the BET Awards.
Megan Thee Stallion
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What a 12 months for Megan Thee Stallion. The Texas Hottie managed to flourish at a time when she may have rested. On the BET Awards, he gained 4 of her seven nods. This included Finest Feminine Hip Hop Artist honors. She additionally gained three Grammys, together with Finest New Artist. However all of that was rooted in her 2020 work. In 2021, she launched One thing for Thee Hotties, an album of freestyles and beforehand unheard songs that gave us the hit “Thot Sh#t.” She additionally collaborated with Lil Nas X, Okay-pop sensations BTS, Ariana Grande and Doja Cat as nicely in 2021. Off the mic, she graduated from faculty, grew to become the primary rapper to grace the duvet of Sports activities Illustrated’s Swimsuit Problem, made a content material cope with Netflix and dominated headlines with a publicist authorized bout with Tory Lanez.
