As of June 2023, Canadian rapper Drake is the most-streamed artist of all time on
Sitting at number one is Drake, who is now this year's top-streamed artist so far with at 6.7 billion in streams.
#1 Jay-Z. Jay-Z, born Shawn Carter, is an American rapper who hails from NYC—a fact he raps about consistently over the course of his nearly three-decade career. He quickly rose to fame in the mid-1990s when he released his debut studio album, Reasonable Doubt, from his own record label Roc-A-Fella Records.
Eminem is still one of the biggest names in music. One of the greatest emcees of all time, he has inspired countless rappers around the world.
'Mood' is the most popular hip-hop song in 2022.
According to the Guinness World Records, the title of the world's fastest rapper - with a hit single - belongs to none other than Eminem.
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Jay-Z. Considered by many to be the greatest rapper of all time, Jay-Z is naturally one of the best selling of all time too. Releasing more than a dozen albums during his career, Jay-Z got started in 1996 with Reasonable Doubt that sold 1.5 million copies.
DJ Kool Herc is widely credited with kicking off the genre. His back-to-school parties in the 1970s were the incubator of his burgeoning idea, where he used his two record turntables to create loops, playing the same beat over again, and extending the instrumental portion of a song.
2021's Hottest Rapper Alive: Drake.
Top 5 richest rappers
Jay-Z: $1.5 billion (October 2022) Diddy: $1 billion (October 2022)
The Sugar Hill Gang's 12-inch single "Rapper's Delight" - released in 1979 - became the first rap song to be played on the radio. The 15-minute song was edited down to six and a half minutes and reached Number 36 on the pop charts, making it the first hip-hop single to become a Top 40 chart hit.
Rap began in 1971, in the Bronx, with Kool Herc, who was from Jamaica. At block parties, Kool Herc would play two turntables by hand and manipulate the sound to create an entirely new sound, while he rapped the lyrics from the song he was playing.
With his dominant album sales, YouTube views and social-media scores, Eminem takes the title as the current King of Hip-Hop. Unlike our Queen of Pop ranking, which Lady Gaga took in a walk, Marshall Mathers's win was somewhat closer – note the fairly tight point range among our top three.
Tupac Shakur, known by his stage names 2Pac, Pac, and Makaveli, is regarded as one of the most iconic and influential rappers of all time. What he brought to hip hop was a level of rawness and a poetic drive in the way he delivered his words.
Who holds the fastest rap record? Eminem holds the record for rapping 97 words in 15 seconds. In another single, Godzilla, the artist spit 225 words in 30 seconds.
The Beatles, unsurprisingly, lead the way with a record 20 No. 1s, all earned between 1964 and 1970. The Fab Four also scored 34 top 10s (second only to Madonna's 38), hitting No. 1 in over half their visits to the top 10.
His Billboard Hot 100 history reads; 107 entries, 56 top 40s, 18 top 10s, and four number-one singles.
Drake has achieved eleven number-one albums on the Billboard 200 and twelve number-one hits on the Billboard Hot 100. Billboard hailed him as the "Artist of the 2010s Decade" and the 16th Greatest Artist of all time.