he speaks the truth...nelly is sitting on more money than most can even fathom and its not money from acting or endorsement contracts...real top rappers sell records!!!
@blackplaque617 I'm pretty sure em dropped 6 albums in the 21st century being the Marshall mathers lp (greatest selling rap album of all time), the eminem show, encore, relapse, refill, and recovery
Nelly you still my number 1 boo. Your exactly right. Numbers don't lie. Who the heck is Drake and all these other people I hear mentioned on that list anyway? Nelly deserves top 5 rap artists of all time because he bought his own distinctive sound and style to the industry. No one back then and no one right now sounds like him or has the same style or rap so that list is just stupid.
Man i respect kanye and he is defintely one of the best what i tried to say here is to answer all this haters here who says Nelly is not a rapper....he is and one of the best so as kanye
@cmb913 the only change Jeezy did was brought a new york drug dealer style and swag to the south. He didnt invent it but you never saw a southern rapper with the drug dealer ny swag and that was new.
*Dont trip Nelly. The guys at BET were drinking too much Starbucks Coffee when they came up with that list. They simply forgot about the insane album sales Nelly had. I guess Nas and Jay-Z were too old for this list.
@jahotgal01 Jadakiss didnt have the sales but he belongs on the list b/c 1.he birthed a lot of rappers styles in the early 2000s, 2. he blew the mixtape scene out of the water along with styles n sheek 3.he took the punchline game to another level, 4.and this is a fact jada is the rapper with the most official remix features in rap history, rnb and rap, every artist respects jada
@jahotgal01 the mafioso era is totally different than d-boy shit. i agree that it's different for the south , but this wasn't the mafioso shit you heard on the firm or with biggie or early jay-z.
BET has been owned by Viacom since 2003. Mind you, Viacom also owns ANOTHER um.. 'music network' who swears by Eminem.. M T V. So, don't let this be a surprise that you see his name on this 'channel's "Top Rappers" List also. The big picture.. see it, know it, believe it!
Yea even though I dont like Nelly, he should have been on there, the dude did sell alot of records and made a huge impact, Drake nor Rick Ross shouldnt have been on there at ALL, ppl didnt even start jumping on the Drake bandwagon till last year.
Nelly has a point I think they should have taken out Jadakiss and put him in. Nelly sold millions and had a successful clothing line (apple bottoms) Yes his lyrics are trash but the judging was not on lyrics alone. Jada only has hot lyrics but nothing else. The only reason why he didnt make the list is because he is not popping now and the judges were a bunch of radio personalities that have to kiss up to get the hot guys on their shows. Since nelly is not popping no need to kiss up.
NELLY WOULD'VE BEEN ON MY LIST PERIOD. THIS DUDE PUT THE MIDWEST ON HIS BACK AND MADE ERRRRBODY KNOW WHAT THE MIDWEST WAS ABOUT..NOT TO MENTION THE LYRICS AND EVERYTHING ELSE THIS BOI CAME WITH CLOTHING LINE HE DOMINATED IN HIS ERA LIKE NO OTHER SO TO KEEP HIM OUT IS A DISGRACE TO THE FANS WE KNOW E SHOULD BE ON...HE HAVEN'T HAD A HIT SINGLE TO NOW BUT EM MAKE IT WITH ONE HE JUST GOT AFTER ABOUT 3 YEARS OFF COME ON NOW PEOPLE BE REAL HE RAN OUT OF MAMA AND GIRLFRIEND JOKES JUST LIKE NOW
All I kno is if Drake can be on the list... Nelly can be on the list. An if you think Nelly don't got bars... Go listen to YC racks on racks remix wit nelly... He kills it!!!
Nelly did better than all those other rappers. Nelly, 50 & Eminem are all 21st century rappers. Nelly & Ja Rule started that whole singing on the whole record shit. Which is what Drake does for his songs. It is what it is though. Drake, Jeezy & Ross should of been replaced with Nelly, Ja Rule & Fab. Plus 50 should of been number 2, Kanye number 3 and Nelly number 4.
NELLY SHOULD HAVE MADE IT STOP HATEIN NUMBERS DONT LIE AND HE GOT THE ALBUMS SALES TO PROOF IT!!!! STOP HATEIN ON THE MAN HE DOIN HIS THING AND PEOPLE NEED TO STOP HATEIN ON ARTIST OF TODAY LISTEN TO YOUR TYPE OF MUSIC YOU LIKE AND STOP HATEIN OTHERS LIKES OF MUSIC< IM OUT!!!
@leroyjabari everybody know this it's been all over t.v. you can tell a person that don't know hip hop cause when you start throwing numbers at them they like what, where, for real like yourself trust it's true check billboard they should have something on it
I would cut Drake and Rick Ross and replace them with Ja Rule and Nelly. I'm not a fan of either however .. their sales and impact on rap is far, far greater than the formerly mentioned artists.
reading all these comments bout Nelly being a sellout for making girl records, I mean c'mon if u love hip hop like how I love it u would see that LL did the same thing & was still respected. The BET list was stupid, they put drake there over Nelly? Damn if u don't like Nelly but c'mon Drake? And not to continue criticizing Drake but they even put him on the list instead of DMX. It shouldve been Top rappers of the last 2-3years not Decade
i like nelly tight as hell & he dam sho kills dat yc racks on rack verse: i got so many rides i dont know which 1 umma drive i b like fuck it um just gon fly very tight
you have to remember this shit is all based off views, albums, count downs and requests. shit because in reality. Eminem, J. Cole, Big Sean, 2Pac, Biggie can eat everyone on that list. I'm just surprised Jay-Z didn't make it.
This list didnt have Jay-Z,DMX,Ja Rule i mean come on now i mean dmx and ja kinda fell off these last couple years but damn look at what they was doing in early 2000's and as for Nelly this nigga has so much for the game he was one of the first rappers to branch off and do songs with r&b artist where they have more than just the hook, this nigga even did a country song i mean come on now he had a cd that sold 9,000,000 copies drake barely goes gold the fuck lmao
The idea that it's even a question if someone like Nelly should be on a top 10 rappers list just shows how garbage hip hop has become. Putting Nelly in a top 10 rappers of the 21st century list would be like putting MC Hammer in a top 10 rappers of the 90's list.
jeezy changed the game as far as d-boy rappin when he hit the scene in the mid part of the decade so he should be on the list based on developing the genre creating that lane in the mainstream, jadakiss shouldn't have been on the list, if you gone put jada on there why not fabolous? hot bars but no big sales, not changing the game, drake? he shouldn't have been on there period either, nelly shoulda been on there, he killed when he was hot, and he did change the game, no ja-rule? fans a r finicky
@jahotgal01 nobody from ny came out on no strictly d-boy shit like that, jeezy brought that out nationally, not saying he was the first to rap about dope, but he made that the focus of his image when he first dropped nationally, on some bmf affiliated shit. BET's list was all political though, all that shit is controled, thats why the people never agree with it.
Hey i can say 1 thing if kanya west is on the list then Nelly should be top 3 in it! cause i can count for yall at list 20 nelly rap songs thats enough and kanya sings too(heartless love lockdown) so you wanna tell me drake is better then Nelly?!?! Nelly should be number 3 or 2 next to eminem and lil wayne
@2enchant WHAT? The new 2Pac? I hope your joking. I'm from St. Louis and got love for Nelly, but fuck no he ain't the new Pac. First of all who really wants to be the NEW Pac? Fuck that, a real MC wants to be the only HIM, not the new anyone or copy of anyone. But lyrically Nelly is not close, emotionally not close, meaning behind lyrics not close. If anyone have you forgot about Joe Budden? He's more of a 'new Pac' that Nelly. Ha.
@cmb913 wow really? Where have you been for the last 15 years of hip hop. Biggie (Frank White) Jay Z even Foxy brown. The Whole Firm album was about money and drugs. It might be new to the new kids in hip hop because hip hop has gone so pop but jeezy style is nothing new, its just new for a southern rapper to take that style. I never seen a southern rapper do that.
@MrDjoyahs The fact that BET was sold to a Viacom I feel was also a mistake, its like the founder sold out just so he can have more money for his company.....he felt BET wasnt making enough money around the time he sold his rights to a white man. But see my thing with Eminem is, he knows that his music is going to sell more just for the simple fact he is white. He has an edge over various African American artist of any music genre. But why choose to do Rap?
cmon, 5. Your number haven't been impressive for close to a decade. Should be put vanilla ice and Mc hammer on the list too, just b/c they sold a shitload of albums 1 thousand years ago?
nelly is a party rapper not an mc
He does have a point. I don't fuck with Nelly like that personally. But numbers are numbers.
Nelly's first 2 albums were complete CLASSICs...He's underrated for his "girl" songs...BUMMD
Not even in my top 20
Nelly is the man. Always liked him, he was great when I was teen.
nelly aint even top 20
leif sandberg Completely agree
Seriously he should've been in the top 10..Nelly's music is amazing. Just a dream is having alot of success right now..GO NELLY!! :)
because its top 10 of the 21st century, so starting in 2001. nelly came out with albums in 2000, 2002, 2 albums in 2004, 2008, 2010.
he speaks the truth...nelly is sitting on more money than most can even fathom and its not money from acting or endorsement contracts...real top rappers sell records!!!
@blackplaque617 I'm pretty sure em dropped 6 albums in the 21st century being the Marshall mathers lp (greatest selling rap album of all time), the eminem show, encore, relapse, refill, and recovery
Nelly you still my number 1 boo. Your exactly right. Numbers don't lie. Who the heck is Drake and all these other people I hear mentioned on that list anyway?
Nelly deserves top 5 rap artists of all time because he bought his own distinctive sound and style to the industry. No one back then and no one right now sounds like him or has the same style or rap so that list is just stupid.
Nelly = Scorpio = Strong = Real Music = Ambitious = Passionate
Love youuu.
xoxox.
Continue to unleash beastly music.
he sure deserved to be in da list, next to eminem
Should've been on the list. Like in the top 5 or 6 at least
@jayd4ever Your right, he's in their too.
@VattanaThach AGREE!
"Emcees are just hopeless thinkin' record sales make them the dopest".
top 5 rapper of the 2000s to me in no order eminem ti nelly 50 jayz
Man i respect kanye and he is defintely one of the best what i tried to say here is to answer all this haters here who says Nelly is not a rapper....he is and one of the best so as kanye
preach!
oh my bad I thought you meant like till now. Yeah and i agree this list needs Jay, Ja & DMX.
Lol Jay should have the number 2 spot.
eminems still the best lmao
The original Lil uzi vert. But not cause color hair and looks it because he’s more pop than rap and uzi is more pop and rock than rap too
i like nelly, hes mature and not as egoistic like some rappers..drake have no business being in there at all!
dude nelly is one of the best he should have been top 5...
Real list should have been
1 TIP
2 Eminem
3 Wayne
4 50
5 Kanye
6 Nelly
7 Ja Rule
8 Bow Wow
9 Jeezy
10 Jada
Yo that's fucked up back in the days in early 2000's nelly would always be on da radio..I just can't believe they even put Rick Ross before him WTF
@cmb913 the only change Jeezy did was brought a new york drug dealer style and swag to the south. He didnt invent it but you never saw a southern rapper with the drug dealer ny swag and that was new.
*Dont trip Nelly. The guys at BET were drinking too much Starbucks Coffee when they came up with that list. They simply forgot about the insane album sales Nelly had. I guess Nas and Jay-Z were too old for this list.
this list just pisses me off
Sad to say, but Nelly is actually better than 70% of that list.
no1 takes Nelly serious, and im one of them.
@jahotgal01 Jadakiss didnt have the sales but he belongs on the list b/c
1.he birthed a lot of rappers styles in the early 2000s,
2. he blew the mixtape scene out of the water along with styles n sheek
3.he took the punchline game to another level,
4.and this is a fact jada is the rapper with the most official remix features in rap history, rnb and rap, every artist respects jada
@jahotgal01
the mafioso era is totally different than d-boy shit. i agree that it's different for the south , but this wasn't the mafioso shit you heard on the firm or with biggie or early jay-z.
BET has been owned by Viacom since 2003. Mind you, Viacom also owns ANOTHER um.. 'music network' who swears by Eminem.. M T V.
So, don't let this be a surprise that you see his name on this 'channel's "Top Rappers" List also.
The big picture.. see it, know it, believe it!
"I do the pushups and the seatups ni**a get muscler just in case you let you lip slip up PA! im bustin you" - Nelly nuff said!!
gv158 “oh never let me see ya sweat yeah that’s my motto catch at the club get wet with bottle up side his head behind his neck the other follow”
@blackplaque617 forgot about lupe
Yea even though I dont like Nelly, he should have been on there, the dude did sell alot of records and made a huge impact, Drake nor Rick Ross shouldnt have been on there at ALL, ppl didnt even start jumping on the Drake bandwagon till last year.
iam happy to see Jay Z not on that list
nelly is #1 and the best rapper 4 ever
lil wayne!! how did he get on the list?
Nelly has a point I think they should have taken out Jadakiss and put him in. Nelly sold millions and had a successful clothing line (apple bottoms) Yes his lyrics are trash but the judging was not on lyrics alone. Jada only has hot lyrics but nothing else. The only reason why he didnt make the list is because he is not popping now and the judges were a bunch of radio personalities that have to kiss up to get the hot guys on their shows. Since nelly is not popping no need to kiss up.
@BXKilla85 oh shit. my bad
NELLY WOULD'VE BEEN ON MY LIST PERIOD. THIS DUDE PUT THE MIDWEST ON HIS BACK AND MADE ERRRRBODY KNOW WHAT THE MIDWEST WAS ABOUT..NOT TO MENTION THE LYRICS AND EVERYTHING ELSE THIS BOI CAME WITH CLOTHING LINE HE DOMINATED IN HIS ERA LIKE NO OTHER SO TO KEEP HIM OUT IS A DISGRACE TO THE FANS WE KNOW E SHOULD BE ON...HE HAVEN'T HAD A HIT SINGLE TO NOW BUT EM MAKE IT WITH ONE HE JUST GOT AFTER ABOUT 3 YEARS OFF COME ON NOW PEOPLE BE REAL HE RAN OUT OF MAMA AND GIRLFRIEND JOKES JUST LIKE NOW
@orasis agreed. and im a fan of both
All I kno is if Drake can be on the list... Nelly can be on the list. An if you think Nelly don't got bars... Go listen to YC racks on racks remix wit nelly... He kills it!!!
Are we talking about sales or lyricall skills???
Hell.......they could've taken Young Cheezy off that list.
Nelly did better than all those other rappers. Nelly, 50 & Eminem are all 21st century rappers. Nelly & Ja Rule started that whole singing on the whole record shit. Which is what Drake does for his songs. It is what it is though. Drake, Jeezy & Ross should of been replaced with Nelly, Ja Rule & Fab. Plus 50 should of been number 2, Kanye number 3 and Nelly number 4.
Yes, yes, y'all.
NELLY SHOULD HAVE MADE IT STOP HATEIN NUMBERS DONT LIE AND HE GOT THE ALBUMS SALES TO PROOF IT!!!! STOP HATEIN ON THE MAN HE DOIN HIS THING AND PEOPLE NEED TO STOP HATEIN ON ARTIST OF TODAY LISTEN TO YOUR TYPE OF MUSIC YOU LIKE AND STOP HATEIN OTHERS LIKES OF MUSIC< IM OUT!!!
nelly is the new tupac
@NERD585 i agree with you but don't take credit of 50 cent...
@tonyS971 Yeah! That's Crazy!
he should be one of the top 3.!
the best rappers right now are jay z ,eminem,ti and the game thats it everyone was is alright or shit
@Kwanze your the reason why Nas saying rap is dead.
He says all them except one.. So hes referring to Eminem because they have beef.
nelly is my fav
@leroyjabari everybody know this it's been all over t.v. you can tell a person that don't know hip hop cause when you start throwing numbers at them they like what, where, for real like yourself trust it's true check billboard they should have something on it
everyone except 1...hmmmm of ya EMINEM!
Everybody on the list is harder then him....
I would cut Drake and Rick Ross and replace them with Ja Rule and Nelly.
I'm not a fan of either however .. their sales and impact on rap is far, far greater than the formerly mentioned artists.
@jahotgal01 lol i said him b/c he made a mark with selling 5 mill on 1 cd and hes a lyrical dude and he brought the west back
no nas?
reading all these comments bout Nelly being a sellout for making girl records, I mean c'mon if u love hip hop like how I love it u would see that LL did the same thing & was still respected. The BET list was stupid, they put drake there over Nelly? Damn if u don't like Nelly but c'mon Drake? And not to continue criticizing Drake but they even put him on the list instead of DMX. It shouldve been Top rappers of the last 2-3years not Decade
MMLP and Eminem show are enough to make Eminem top 3, Nas should have been #1.
Sooo, I'm right?
i like nelly tight as hell & he dam sho kills dat yc racks on rack verse: i got so many rides i dont know which 1 umma drive i b like fuck it um just gon fly very tight
Where the hell is Nelly, JaRule, The Game and oh Snoop Dogg?
you have to remember this shit is all based off views, albums, count downs and requests. shit because in reality.
Eminem, J. Cole, Big Sean, 2Pac, Biggie can eat everyone on that list. I'm just surprised Jay-Z didn't make it.
This list didnt have Jay-Z,DMX,Ja Rule i mean come on now i mean dmx and ja kinda fell off these last couple years but damn look at what they was doing in early 2000's and as for Nelly this nigga has so much for the game he was one of the first rappers to branch off and do songs with r&b artist where they have more than just the hook, this nigga even did a country song i mean come on now he had a cd that sold 9,000,000 copies drake barely goes gold the fuck lmao
The idea that it's even a question if someone like Nelly should be on a top 10 rappers list just shows how garbage hip hop has become.
Putting Nelly in a top 10 rappers of the 21st century list would be like putting MC Hammer in a top 10 rappers of the 90's list.
its all good but yea if it was now drake should most def be on it
Not when this list came out look it up before you talk lol
Nelly Number 2... Eminem Number 1
who ever did that list was pissed drake , lil wayne , rick ross .. eminem deserved number 1 , no nelly piss take ,
he is sooooo fine!!!
@hot1fromnc I was with you until you said game. lol
idk how Drake made it...hes a great artist but he hasnt payed enough dues to the game for that tittle.#FuCCindustryTrends
jeezy changed the game as far as d-boy rappin when he hit the scene in the mid part of the decade so he should be on the list based on developing the genre creating that lane in the mainstream, jadakiss shouldn't have been on the list, if you gone put jada on there why not fabolous? hot bars but no big sales, not changing the game, drake? he shouldn't have been on there period either, nelly shoulda been on there, he killed when he was hot, and he did change the game, no ja-rule? fans a r finicky
@jahotgal01
nobody from ny came out on no strictly d-boy shit like that, jeezy brought that out nationally, not saying he was the first to rap about dope, but he made that the focus of his image when he first dropped nationally, on some bmf affiliated shit. BET's list was all political though, all that shit is controled, thats why the people never agree with it.
@gv158 NO LMAO lil wayne is 50
its top 10 mcs.... not top 10 pop artists..... which is why most of the top 10 is fucked up.... the only one that makes sense was #1 EMINEM
nelly should of got that, and fab..
Can someone explain how Drake is on the list when Jay-Z is not.
Hey i can say 1 thing if kanya west is on the list then Nelly should be top 3 in it!
cause i can count for yall at list 20 nelly rap songs thats enough and kanya sings too(heartless love lockdown) so you wanna tell me drake is better then Nelly?!?!
Nelly should be number 3 or 2 next to eminem and lil wayne
top 3 rap music best # ja rule #nelly 50
no
@daretosayit07 21 century not the 20th.
yea Ross, Drake and Jezzy shouldnt have been there take them out and put in Fabolous, Nelly and Game
@2enchant WHAT? The new 2Pac? I hope your joking. I'm from St. Louis and got love for Nelly, but fuck no he ain't the new Pac. First of all who really wants to be the NEW Pac? Fuck that, a real MC wants to be the only HIM, not the new anyone or copy of anyone. But lyrically Nelly is not close, emotionally not close, meaning behind lyrics not close. If anyone have you forgot about Joe Budden? He's more of a 'new Pac' that Nelly. Ha.
Why did Rick Ross make the list?
Eight deuce unity stand behind derrty
Jadakiss should be no. 3, Kanye no. 2, and 50 can stay in his place...fuck the rest.
@cmb913 wow really? Where have you been for the last 15 years of hip hop. Biggie (Frank White) Jay Z even Foxy brown. The Whole Firm album was about money and drugs. It might be new to the new kids in hip hop because hip hop has gone so pop but jeezy style is nothing new, its just new for a southern rapper to take that style. I never seen a southern rapper do that.
The greatest mc should have been flo rida, then Nelly
eminem nr 1 for ever.
Eminem is the greatest of all time, but when you see lil wayne just under Eminem thats when you know that the rap game is fucked up!
I don't nelly deserve 2 be on that list but a lot of others that were on it didn't deserve 2 be on it either. Nas should of been on it!
@MrDjoyahs
The fact that BET was sold to a Viacom I feel was also a mistake, its like the founder sold out just so he can have more money for his company.....he felt BET wasnt making enough money around the time he sold his rights to a white man. But see my thing with Eminem is, he knows that his music is going to sell more just for the simple fact he is white. He has an edge over various African American artist of any music genre. But why choose to do Rap?
cmon, 5. Your number haven't been impressive for close to a decade. Should be put vanilla ice and Mc hammer on the list too, just b/c they sold a shitload of albums 1 thousand years ago?