The ‘hip-hop is dead’ rhetoric going around in the 2000s rubbed a lot of rappers the wrong way. Artists like Jeezy were leading the charge, wondering how rap could truly be dying if they were at the ...
2006 was not playing fair. Hip-hop fans got legacy debates, Southern dominance, coke-rap classics, skateboard anthems, and the start of DJ Khaled’s compilation empire all in one stacked year. Nas: ...
This ranking captures 2006 as the year Southern rap overtook the East Coast establishment, with Atlanta’s trap, snap, and ...