Hip-Pop Acts: The 10 Biggest Hip-Hop/Pop Artists - Page 7

The 10 Biggest Hip-Hop Pop Acts

Everyone take cover! Big, bad Uncle Ice-T is pissed off with Hip-Hop again.

In his upcoming VH1 documentary, Planet Rock, the Original Gangster took his frustrations with rap culture out on Rick Ross for being a “fake” rapper and talked about the days when rap and Pop didn’t cross paths, saying:

“Rap was a counterculture that went against pop. But when you have Rihanna singin’ on your records and you’re doin’ records with Katy Perry, that’s no longer rap.

“It’s pop music, pop using rap delivery. When you hear Lil Wayne sayin’ ‘I got a chopper in the car,’ you go, ‘Yeah, right you do.‘”

We get it Uncle T, Rick Ross used to be an correctional officer, but so what, we like his music, so get over it.

And when it comes to rap being Pop music, we actually like that too.

It’s not 1980’s anymore, when rappers used to rap about killing cops and gang bangin’. Well ok, they still do rap about killing cops and gang bangin’, but that’s not the point.

It’s a new day in Hip-Hop. Nowadays it’s acceptable for a rapper to do a song with Katy Perry or Rihanna and still be considered Hip-Hop.

It’s ok to have fun, party, pop bottles and sing about love.

Instead of downing artists for crossing over and expanding rap into different genres of music, we should embrace them.

So while Uncle Ice-T puts on his best mean mug and frowns upon Hip-Pop music, here at HipHopWired, we applaud them and salute the The 10 Biggest Hip-Hop/Pop Artists in the game for supplying our party rock soundtracks.

View our list on the next pages.

Black Eyed Peas

BEP is probably as Hip-Pop as it gets. But after selling 56 million records worldwide, they can be as Pop as they want to be.

Flo Rida

Flo Rida’s 2006 breakthrough single “Low” went 5x platinum and never looked back at gangsta rap.

Pitbull

Much like, Flo Rida, Miami rapper Pitbull is enjoying the life of a Pop star rapper much more than the Miami rap life.

Nicki Minaj

Nicki Minaj was going Pop long before she went on tour with Britney Spears.

Sean Kingston

“Beautiful Girls” was a huge success and Sean Kingston starting hanging with Justin Bieber. Then Sean tried to act as if he was never a rapper.

Nelly

Say what you want about the Derrty Nelly, but his comeback single “Just A Dream” went 3x platinum.

LMFAO

From “Shots” to “Miami Beyotch” to “Party Rock Anthem,” LMFAO has more hit records in their catalog than most rappers ever will.

Gym Class Heroes

Travy McCoy and Gym Class Heroes are probably the most successful Pop band in Hip-Hop.

B.o.B.

If B.o.B. didn’t link up with Bruno Mars and go Pop for his hit “Nothing On You,” Bobby Ray might still be in Atlanta right now selling CDs out of his car.

Lil Wayne

Weezy basically went platinum in one week twice in his career… he’s allowed to sing love songs like “How To Love” whenever he wants to.