We’ll never get another Rich Gang project, the first of which was anchored by Quan’s terrestrial scope. 26 on the Hot 100 and has over 55 million views on VEVO. “Flex (Ooh Ooh Ooh) from his latest mixtape, If You Ever Think I Will Stop Goin' In Ask Double R, is currently No. He may not have the chart-toppers of fellow street crooner/croaker Fetty Wap, but he’s proved to have staying power. Still, despite the surfeit of great albums and seemingly ascendant rappers, RHQ still looks to be one of the most promising. In March of this year, we published a piece titled “2015 Is the Year of Rich Homie Quan.” Eight months into 2015, it’s safe to say we may have overestimated a bit. Listen to our 20 Best Rappers in Their 20s playlist on Apple Music. With that being said, here are the 20 Best Rappers in Their 20s. Still, for all we know, someone can drop a surprise album tomorrow and force us to reconsider our rankings for the future. It wasn’t always easy, but we tried to balance it out as well as we could. Some of the people on this list released albums this year and are on the upswing, while others are riding off a residual effect of past work. Secondly, this list can change at any moment based on new material. But if a rapper isn’t making the most of their talent, that’s on them. We take rap skills into consideration, but our emphasis is on an artist’s overall catalog and more often than not, people’s skill sets don’t match their output. This is a list about the Best Rappers, and being the best rapper entails making the best rap music. Mainly, this is not a list of the Most Skilled Rappers in Their 20s. First off, we must reinitiate a few things about this list. Still, with 2015 being one of the best years in recent rap memory-with a slew of exciting projects released by a diversity of rappers-there’s plenty to discuss. Cole, and Future are all now in their 30s and don’t qualify anymore-even if they are in fact contemporaries of most people on this list (FYI other rappers like Childish Gambino, Nicki Minaj, and Action Bronson are all too old for this as well). Admittedly, this list is a bit less fun this time around now that young veterans like Wale, J. Yes, it’s that time of the year again when Complex breaks some rap nerd hearts by ranking the 20 Best Rappers in Their 20s.
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