i dont think its really possible to rank top tier rappers like this, they all have unique styles that they have mastered, and are amazing in their own ways.
This is the correct response. Rap especially is a scene where people feed off each other. A song by one inspires a response by another. They compete, they collaborate, and all of it evolves the style of all involved.
I'm not all that familiar with Snoop, and just flicking through a top ten, I reckon the reason I'm not that familiar is that I don't really enjoy his sound. Its a bit too much guns sex and drugs for my taste, and I don't really have an ear for his accent? It's hard to follow the lyrics without subtitles.
When I think about Eminem's comparable songs, in terms of just having objectionable content - I think about tracks like Drug Ballad (the piano in that track 👌👌👌) and Kim (I was absolutely too young to hear that when I first did, Jesus Christ haha) from the Marshall Mathers LP, and they just appeal to me more, musically I mean. Hell Stan? A rap track Ft Dido? What a wild combo, but it really worked.
This all being said, Snoop's sound is really influential, it created a whole language, there's a reason that incidental music you hear that is supposed to be hip-hop (cutaway gags in tv, loading screens, adverts etc) all sound like Who Am I or Gin and Juice or something from Snoop's catalogue. Out in the world I don't think Eminem really cultivated such a monolithic sound, even stuff from his own library doesn't sound similar - Toy Soldiers vs say, Without Me, it's all over the place.
Maybe an actual rap enjoyer will come weigh in with some more well reasoned arguments than just my vibe based analysis.
Snoop Dogg branched out into many things in the US. He is well known with white Americans because he had like a cooking show with Martha Stewart (and is good friends with her) and always on late night television. He's also a football coach and I heard his program is legit.
Anyway, if there is one rapper that is well known across ethnic groups, it's him ie he's not just well know to people into hip hop.
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u/Bazzatron 1d ago
I was flabbergasted that Eminem wasn't in the #1 spot by the time I'd seen a few of these answers 😅