Billboard releases list of rap's biggest chart toppers, guess who took the No.1 spot

By Erika Benton-Martin (erikabmartin@aol.com) | Mar 09, 2014 04:27 PM EDT

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To commemorate the 25th anniversary of Billboard's hot rap songs chart, the magazine decided to rank and list the top 50 Hot Rap Songs artists, the artists with the most No. 1s, the artists with the most top 10s and more.

Check out some of the lists below.

Hot Rap Songs: Top 50 Artists (1989-2014):

1. Drake

2. Jay Z

3. Lil Wayne

4. LL Cool J

5. Kanye West

6. T.I.

7. 50 Cent

8. Ludacris

9. Diddy

10. The Notorious B.I.G.

11. Snoop Dogg

12. Nelly

13. Eminem

14. Ice Cube

15. Busta Rhymes

16. Nicki Minaj

17. Outkast

18. Bow Wow

19. Heavy D & The Boyz

20. 2Pac

21. MC Lyte

22. Too $hort

23. Lil Jon

24. Fabolous

25. Flo Rida

26. Public Enemy

27. Pitbull

28. M.C. Hammer

29. Missy Elliott

30. Naughty By Nature

31. Bone Thugs-N-Harmony

32. Sean Paul

33. Rick Ross

34. Chubb Rock

35. Young Jeezy

36. Salt-N-Pepa

37. Twista

38. Da Brat

39. Kris Kross

40. Macklemore & Ryan Lewis

41. Ying Yang Twins

42. 69 Boyz

43. Nas

44. Cypress Hill

45. Chingy

46. Soulja Boy

47. Plies

48. Yo-Yo

49. Fat Joe

50. Dr. Dre

Artists with the Most No. 1s:

1. Drake (13)

2. Diddy (10)

3. Kanye West (9)

4. LL Cool J (8)

5. TIE:

50 Cent (7)

Bow Wow (7)

Lil Wayne (7)

T.I. (7)

9. TIE:

Ice Cub (6)

Nelly (6)

The Notorious B.I.G. (6)

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