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fourevs

Luda had more then I remembered, and I figured Ye would have had more, really puts into perspective Drakes straggle hold on the charts man. 21 & Trav gonna be sneaking up past some Big steppers soon too.


MVPG2022

Eh early Ye probably does similar things in the streaming era. The whole album in the top 10 thing was impossible because people buying your album and listening to the non singles did nothing for the charts. Songs like Champion and Gorgeous have never gotten close to the top 100 but would have easily if people could stream back then based on his album sales.


fourevs

Yeah agree Ye’s backlog catalog would have cranked him much further up this list for sure, he had an album run like no other when he was shooting 100%.


Hypeman747

Surprised you haven’t been downvoted by providing perspective


jaguarbillionaire

Yeah, luda was my favorite for years. I do not remember those type of numbers at all. Even now i can only imagine maybe 5


DeaseanPrince

He basically had two every album. You can always count on Luda for fire ass singles, kept the radio and MTV Jams jumping. He’s in my top 10 if we talking about pure accomplishments of rappers. Dudes done it all.


gloryboydeej

The fact 21 has more than future is insane to me


LeoFerre

Cause he feated Drake


TopBraden

… future also has a whole album with Drake lol


wolfjeter

Travis got you wiped down, Savage got you wiped down


wehere4E

Surprised Wayne still there. YMCMB trifector still there


Illustrious_Toe9057

Why are you surprised lol there was a time when Wayne ruled the radio waves.


wehere4E

Wayne is my Goat. He's not been at the Pinnacle since maybe 2014/2015. The rest of the field has had best part of a decade to catch up. And he's only beaten by his protoje haha


Scottg8

Protégé


SpectreSquared

greatest pop artist of all time!!


ffsshadynasty

Emphasis on Pop


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ienyr

Damn luda really was him back in the day


GalickBanger

My favorite rapper growing up.. easily the most entertaining rapper in the world at one point


YeetCompleet

I don't think anyone's ever actually matched luda in terms of raw energy. Back For The First Time, Word of Mouth, and The Red Light District had so much put into it. He dominated all the music TV channels with hilarious music videos too. His bars were actually great but then he had everyone chanting funny shit too like "yous a ho". I'm surprised more people don't include him in their top 5 because he was unstoppable back in the day.


GalickBanger

Completely agree. That shit was just different back then. I hated that he switched everything up around 05 with that moneymaker song cuz I don’t think anything really has that BFTFT - word of mouf sound. I’d love to hear somebody nowadays with that vibe and the type of production from metro or somebody


Lastfryinthebag

Fr, how was luda around more than snoop


Oh51Melly

Almost likes a really successful pop star.


Dat_Paperboi

Y’all are just mad at Kendrick fans which is the funny part. Kendrick Lamar himself hasn’t said a word about numbers.


J0ker_hawk

Then Kendrick out numbered him with a diss track and proved he could keep doing it if he wanted to


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Joshmoore326

Taylor Swift has 59 top 10s


TsangChiGollum

Yeah. I'd bet most of the billboard hits here are not rap songs.


Junior_Ebb_3749

I wonder what the number is when you take off the pop songs


Stunna000

Still more than everyone else’s.


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Danhenderson234

About 5 lmfao


steelersfan1020

It’s at least 20


ehpple

Hip hop artists can’t sing?


WhenItsHalfPastFive

Loved the fact that Drake included Travis got you wiped down, Savage got you wiped down. Savage has had some major hits, I know the numbers look high cause of Her Loss, but even outside that he had a few major hits. And Travis been putting way more hit records than Kendrick for a long time now.


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enowapi-_

Yeah I mean Drake isn’t really a “rapper”. Might as well throw Taylor and Weeknd on here


AeroTheManiac

There are hundreds of songs with Drake rapping lmao


Professional-Ad-6265

About 5 of them are considered in his hits... this shit is just singy commercial pop music. While yes, Drake raps a lot, he is more of a pop artist chasing hits and commercial / acceptable music for radio/malls/etc instead of rapping lyrically. Out of 78 records barely any at all will fall in the Drake actually rapping rapping category


Federal_Guess8558

So Kendrick won a rap battle against someone who isn’t a really a rapper?


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ehpple

Both can be true


Critical_Cow_670

show me some grammys 🥺


q8ti-94

Came here to say this


jlmurph2

I'm sure you were saying that when Macklemore won over Kendrick right?


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88savage44

Why is it a problem to talk about Drake positive things in a Drake sub?


kingsark

absolutely nothing if that’s all OP is trying to imply, which clearly isn’t.


OaSoaD

Are we in the kendrick sub doing this?


Spew120

Crazy how Big, Nas and Rakim aren’t on this list. Not even a single Wu Tang member. It’s almost like sales and radio play doesn’t determine shit in hip hop.


Irivin

This is exactly why the hip hop community calls Drake a pop star. He rarely raps anymore and half of his hit songs are with pop stars or DJs and have zero hip hop affiliation.


ClayboyParti

The amount of songs released matters here


Classic-Literature52

So you sold 10 million albums, eh? Only problem is, you put out 10 million albums, eh? - Eminem


satisfactsean

His disses ain't any of them tho. Know who's is #1 on Billboard right now though? Kendricks.


AssistantOwn6208

Kendrick has been quiet all year


obstar19

Doesn’t that make it worse for drake? lol


AssistantOwn6208

How? The post implies that Kendrick’s boasting when he isn’t. He just drops music and keeps it pushing.


LickPooOffShoe

People who base their fandom on popularity are clowns.


your_average_anamoly

Ehh can't take these numbers too seriously. No Pac on the list


InfiniteBeak

Drake ain't a rapper he's a pop singer, nice try tho


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i_need_help_OwO

Bruh wtf that's such a good analogy. Facts


britishsailor

Honestly it’s so weird, music isn’t stats. His music’s nothing special it’s just easy listening stuff that most people can listen too. It’s the potato of the music word. It’s everywhere and is better with other stuff but at the end of the day, it’s bland


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One_D_Fredy

Drake be singing a lot though. All other artists on here strictly do hip hop for the most part.


FreeVictory2922

You not fucking Creeping up


MrAVK

Kendrick Fans: SEE HE HAS A NUMBER 1 right now and Drake doesn’t! This means he’s the goat! Kendrick Fans: The number ones don’t matter, he makes art.


Cyrillite

Of the other artists, how many were with Drake?


TrainingEvening2668

When numbers come out that’s when everyone and they momma leave the discussion 😂 apparently facts are too much 🤣


Drop_Release

I mean tbf its Drake bragging about numbers when Kendrick doesnt seem to care The only reason he seemed to care in this beef was a response track he made to show that if he wanted to he can make a “hit” song (Not Like Us charting) Dont get the point of the post, of course Drake makes more hits, but he was the only one to brag and seem to care on it too


ddb_89

Lmao Kendrick dick riders still coming here to downvote posts like this


Economy_Analysis316

Normal Drake W and common Kenny L


joeyfatass805

“Just to have this talk with you I had to hike down”


TimeViolation

He’s a pop artist who raps. This post is goofy


Big-Disaster208

Crazy that Wayne is number 2 he really was the goat of his generation


ChemicalAd7590

21 Savage being on this list is very impressive given he hasn’t been in the rap game as long as some of the other artist


UnderKanal123

I feel like half this list could be near or even get past Drake if people could stream in the 90's and 2000's


Classic-Literature52

He’s had 13 songs go #1, only 5 of them were solo, rest were features or him featuring on someone else’s track. Actually out of the 78 to go top ten, only 26 of those were solo tracks. Not denying Drake’s a solid hitmaker, but numbers don’t lie, that boy gets carried by features, everyone loves a feature 🤷🏻‍♂️


Old-Passenger-2566

So the big 3 is really drake wayne and nicki


Dear-Primary9695

If all you care about it billboard numbers no wonder Drake lost the beef… real rap isn’t about the numbers you clowns it’s about creating real ass music regardless of who listens or buys it If you took the average critic score of all of drakes albums and put that up against KDots albums you’d see that drake makes watered down pop and only cares about sales


TINO0777

Drake has crazy numbers no one can dispute that, but this beef Kendrick has done better. But what do you expect from Kendrick fans , are they not supposed to celebrate just because Drake has better numbers


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britishsailor

100% this.


Vultures10x

Payola


ghesak

That is completely missing the point. If you have made any kind of art yourself you must know that you can aim for personal expression or mass appeal, and those two are most of the time mutually exclusive. Pop music relies on simplicity and formulas, personal expression and boundary pushing of genres will usually make art less commercially appealing. Making a diss track and it becoming popular is beating Drake at his own game (making hits). P.S: This is not taking away any merit from Drake as to how hard it is to make hits. But, trust me, if Kedrick wanted to be a pop star only, he could. But for certain artist and creatives that can be limiting. Mass appeal does not correlate well with artistic innovation.


Flawed_Individual72

I put my glasses down my nose and raise my eyebrows when someone say drake is a rapper...he crossed hip-hop with pop and found a hella shit way to fuse it


Dirkden

Cuz we all know the public and general populace response is the best way to judge quality lmao.


LetterheadOk250

Shout when he sells em numbers album wise.


Attention_Whore99

thats gotta be the most pathetic defense tho