Famous rappers in the world right now are presented below:
Everyone has their own idea of the best rappers today, but that doesn’t necessarily denote the most famous rapper in the world right now in 2022.
1. Eminem
Eminem has stolen the show by maintaining his position of being a legendary and famous rapper worldwide.
He is considered not only the greatest but the fastest.
Eminem has taken mastery to another level. His music is next-level in terms of complexity, vocabulary, rhyming phrases you’d never think to put together.
He’s won 15 Grammys, 8 American Music Awards, and 17 Billboard Music Awards, among many others.
2. Kanye West
Kanye made his debut album ‘The College Dropout’ in the year 2004. With this album’s release, he became a celebrity.
He is a talented artist who is always known for releasing rap songs to influence and convince people that hip-hop is made.
While West can drop some seriously cool lines, rapping isn’t his best feature.
What West does better than arguably anyone is to release songs that sound simultaneously fresh and contagious.
3. Kendrick Lamar
One of the most successful artists of his generation is Kendrick Lamar. He has produced many albums and tracks that became extensively famous.
His major-label debut album ‘good kid’ m.A.A.d city made him gain international recognition. He has also received several awards, including 12 Grammy Awards.
4. Jay-Z
Sean Kol Carter is better known as Jay-Z. Sean began recording in the early 1990s.
He is the founder of the music company Roc-a-Fella Records. With his album ‘The Blueprint’ in 2001, a very talented hip-hop artist was born.
Thirteen of his albums were featured on the top of Billboard and he is the most famous of all rappers alive and the wealthiest.
More than just one of the most prolific and consistent rappers of the last thirty-plus years, Jay-Z is the artist who’s been showing struggling Americans that it’s possible to dream the American Dream and go on to live it.
5. Lil Wayne
Signed to a hip-hop record label at the incredibly precocious age of 12, Lil Wayne has never been anything other than a rapper.
The release of ‘The Carter’ in 2004, which is one of his hot-selling albums, made him a worldwide recognized rapper.
Lil Wayne sold so many records he became the first male artist to surpass a certain Elvis Presley in the Billboard Hot 100.
6. Drake
Drake is a Canadian singer, rapper, producer, and songwriter as well. He is undeniably hip hop’s number-one trendsetter since 2009 when he joined the scene.
He is one rapper who has immense talent and is not only a stupendous rapper but also a soulful singer.
And, he has continually been putting up the best songs year after year.
7. Post Malone
Post Malone is a young rapper and guitarist who has magnificent talent. His voice is like a melody and profoundly touches your soul.
This New York-based rapper has given many tracks to the industry that followed a massive hit, such as Rockstar, Circles, Goodbye, and many others.
Blending hip-hop with pop and trap, he managed to hit the charts with his breakthrough single “White Iverson” and remained at the top ever since.
8. Snoop Dogg
When counting the world’s best rappers, how can you forget the great ‘Snoop Dogg’ in the list?
He has released 12 successful hip-hop albums, that have a uniform flow, follow a specific theme, and are comprehensively popular across the globe.
9. Travis Scott
Travis is an American rapper, songwriter, and record producer.
He started beholding the eyes of the mass audience with his first release of the debut studio album ‘Rodeo’ in which the track ‘Antidote’ reached the top 20 of the U.S. Billboard hot chart.
Scott embodies everything that makes modern hip-hop cool, but he does so while also staying true to the fundamentals.
His lyrics are spot on and his beats are very creative, but what truly sets him apart is his flow.
10. P. Diddy
One of the wealthiest and most talented personalities in the hip-hop world founded his label and named it ‘Bad Boy Records in 1993.
Diddy released his first full-length album in the year ‘No Way Out,’ which was a big boon to the music industry.
