Future Hip Hop Legends provides a home for discussing the best and most important hip-hop artists of all time and highlights the next generation of legends.

Top 50 Hip Hop Legends of All-Time
Hip Hop Hall of Fame: A Brief History
Induction Criteria for a Hip Hop Hall of Fame
List of Potential Hall of Famers
Hip Hop Artists in the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame
Top Hip Hop Artists Who Debuted in 1980

About Future Hip Hop Legends

While no Hall of Fame is a perfect encapsulation of the subject it honors, it can serve as a sturdy foundation for discussing the greatest of all-time. As Hip Hop celebrates its 50th birthday, the most impactful cultural movement since the 1980s still doesn't have a proper set of Hall of Famers that represent the genre's most important and impactful artists.

Because of funding and trademark issues, a physical museum with the "Hip Hop Hall of Fame" moniker may never come to fruition, but the need to create a canon for hip hop remains vital because it will provide a reference point for future generations to understand the roots and evolution of the genre. It will also give hip hop artists the recognition they deserve for their contributions to music and culture.

Future Hip Hop Legends serves as a platform to discuss and discover the most important hip hop artists of the past, present, and future, setting the stage for the inevitable institution that will immortalize them.


What are people talking about?

About Lil Wayne, Andrew Cisan wrote:
Lil Wayne-

You need 25 years after your first recording to get in the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland, Ohio.

Lil Wayne. 2024 Eligible.

Right after he got snubbed by his own hometown for the Super Bowl halftime show, also was snubbed by the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame due to one great year of music from Kendrick Lamar? I will be very disappointed if Lil Wayne does not appear on stage at this years Super Bowl Halftime Show with Kendrick, but I do not want to call out anyones game plans!

The Cleveland Browns are having another horrific year and that would have been huge for Cleveland putting him as headliner with Mary J Blige for the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame inductees after the Super Bowl snub. Who knows?

Put Nick Chubb in the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame. Thats what I say. God Bless! AUDI. an [amatrix] Joint.
Monday, 10.21.24 @ 12:27pm


About Hip Hop in the Rock Hall, Andrew Cisan wrote:
Lil Wayne-

You need 25 years after your first recording to get in the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland, Ohio.

Lil Wayne. 2024 Eligible.

Right after he got snubbed by his own hometown for the Super Bowl halftime show, also was snubbed by the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame due to one great year of music from Kendrick Lamar? I will be very disappointed if Lil Wayne does not appear on stage at this years Super Bowl Halftime Show with Kendrick, but I do not want to call out anyones game plans!

The Cleveland Browns are having another horrific year and that would have been huge for Cleveland putting him as headliner with Mary J Blige for the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame inductees after the Super Bowl snub. Who knows?

Put Nick Chubb in the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame. Thats what I say. God Bless! AUDI. an [amatrix] Joint.
Monday, 10.21.24 @ 12:24pm


About Lil Kim, Alex wrote:
She's the Queen of Rap. She deserves this honor!
Wednesday, 05.29.24 @ 19:14pm


About Kendrick Lamar, Tyrese wrote:
Tpab is very overrated and quite boring same with Mr morale but he's one of the most lyrical rappers so yeah
Sunday, 04.7.24 @ 05:34am



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