![]() ![]() Notable releases: The Course of the Inevitable After dropping a number one, platinum album and getting nominated for a Grammy, Lil Baby ran away bodying features for Meek Mill and Kanye and also found time to drop a collaboration album with Lil Durk, one of the biggest hip hop albums of 2021. ![]() You can’t have a year like Lil Baby had in 2020 and not spend the whole of 2021 on a victory lap. Notable releases: The Voice of the Heroes (with Lil Durk) Whether it was his collaboration album with Rome Streetz (more on him later), Coup De Grace or his project with Big Ghost, Heavy Is the Head, Ransom was barred the fuck up in 2021. But it was really in 2021 that the lyrical murderer came out the gate storming determined to prove his status of best rapper alive. After dropping his first mixtape, Ransomnia, Ransom followed that up with his 2016 single “See Me Fall” which received moderate success. New York rapper Ransom has been in the game for a minute now. Notable releases: Coup De Grace (with Rome Streetz), Heavy Is the Head (Big Ghost Ltd.), Se7en Mach-Hommy’s command of the English language is his strongest talent, dropping bars in a coded language that only the most observant listeners will grasp, over some of the best production on a rap album this year. ![]() If Pray For Haiti isn’t the best hip hop album of 2021, it’s at least top five. Now that Mach-Hommy is back into the Griselda fold, him and Westside wasted little time cooking up a masterpiece. El Capo was one of the best releases on 2019, and his collaboration with Harry Fraud, The Fraud Department, shows why Jim Jones is steadily creeping up the best rappers alive list. It’s been a long time since Jim Jones has been flexing his muscles as the Dipset hype man and enforcer these days he’s more concerned about polishing up his bars, and this confidence is showing up in his music. The award for the most improved rapper goes to Jim Jones. Notable releases: The Fraud Department (with Harry Fraud), Zooo York Giants (with Champ Da General) It doesn’t get any better than this for ’90s hip hop heads. The Detroit rapper has been collaborating with the GOAT producer since the early 2010s, and more recently the two have linked back up for full-length projects – first with last year’s The Price of Tea in China and 2021’s Bo Jackson, a masterful display of criminal rhymes over gritty beats. Notable releases: Bo Jackson (with The Alchemist), Super Tecmo Bo (with The Alchemist)īoldy James and Alchemist – name a better duo. But that’s the power of a master A&R and label executive, the ability to coax out great performances from the rappers around you. When on a track with rappers like Conway, Benny, Boldy James, Jadakiss, or Stove God Cooks, it’s very rare that West will come away with the best verse. The only reason Westside isn’t on the top five is because his strengths lie more in actual rapping. Westside Gunn dropped one of the best hip hop albums of the year, a sprawling double album that never overstays its welcome. Notable releases: Hitler Wears Hermes 8: Sincerely, Adolf, Hitler Wears Hermes 8: Side B Even though, he’s being outshined by most of the features – Fivio Foreign, Lil Baby, and Jay Electronica to name a few – Kanye is still holding his own and giving us some of his most heartfelt verses to date. On Donda, we see a lyrical return to form for Kanye, who hasn’t rapped this hard and this good since his early 2010s days. ![]() Nearly 20 years since his 2004 debut album, Kanye West is still an artistic and commercial force in music. But still, for a Griselda rapper, a quiet year means dropping two stellar albums – If It Bleeds It Can Be Killed with Big Ghost (who is earning a reputation for being one of the best producers in the game right now), and La Maquina which featured Conway playing around with a bunch of different flows. Notable releases: If It Bleeds It Can Be Killed (with Big Ghost), La MaquinaĢ021 felt like a quieter year for Conway compared to other years, only because it seems like he’s getting ready to drop his highly-anticipated major label debut on Shady Records. There were a lot of dope drops so the honourable mentions list is stacked. It was a year full of diverse releases, from big-name rappers as well as underground drops releases from OG veterans as well as some of the hottest rappers in the game today.įrom Kanye to Tyler, Nas to Benny the Butcher to Freddie Gibbs, Lil Wayne to Young Thug, we take a look at the top five best rappers alive of 2021.īut first, before we get into it, here are the honourable mentions (in no particular order). For our Best Rappers Alive series, we take a look at the top five best rappers, year by year – ranking them on projects dropped, guest verses and overall impact.Ģ021 was a super exciting year for hip hop, I would say it was one of the best years we’ve had recently. ![]()
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