What was Kendrick's biggest year? 2017 or 2024/25?

[Mr 18]

2017:

-Billboard says DAMN is the 2nd biggest rap album released between 2000 and 2025, based on performance on the weekly #Billboard200
-Humble is the first rap song to ever be eligible for 2x Diamond (20x platinum)
-Tied record for most grammy won in a single night
-Won Pulitzer

billboard.com/charts/top-billboard-200-albums-of-the-21st-century/?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social


2024/2025:

-First rapper to solo headline superbowl - breaks all time audience record
-Gnx becomes the fastest album to reach 2 billion streams, ties Taylor Swift record
-Tied record for most grammy won in a single night
-Joins Taylor, Drake and the Beatles as the only act to simultaneously occupy entire top 5 of the hot 100
-First rapper to reach 100m monthly followers
-Kendrick Lamar achieves the fastest accumulation of four #1 hits on the Hot 100 among male soloists in a lead role since Michael Jackson 1987-88.
-breaks about 100 other records

 

[Not Crodie]

Hard to say

 

[JuvenileHell]

2025 easily. lit doesnt even begin to describe it

 

[Overpss]

He's having a 2nd commercial peak, thats for sure. I'd say he was a superstar in 2017, but is now reaching never seen before level of popularity for a rapper.

 

[Overpss]

He's more popular as an individual now, but I doubt we'll see an album as big as DAMN anytime soon.

 

[Ike omad]

He absolutely destroyed 2017, probably one of the biggest years a rapper had in the 2010s decade. But oh boy 2024 was something else

 

[Ziggiy]

He ran 2017 and he ran 2024

But NOTHING beats performing at the Super Bowl one week after SWEEPING the Grammys.

2024 will go down as a once in a generation year for a music artist. As great as his 2017 year was, someone can and will match it one day. The stars may never again align in the way they did for another rapper in the way they did for Kendrick in 2024.

 

[Nuuko]

2017 was massive, specially for a rapper...and the last time the west experienced something this big was when Snoop dropped doggystyle, but 2024-25 is kendrick being more popular than any other rapper before him.
This nikka is currently breaking some Taylor Swift records, motherfukking Taylor Swift lol, with a small album, only 12 tracks


And he still has NLU, one of the biggest songs ever, still doing damage at the exact same time.

 

[Peak]

24 by far

 

[Revolutionary]

Depends


2017 Kendrick was the biggest year a rapper had since Wayne, 2024 Kendrick is just out of this world stuff that transcended hip hop lol

 

[T.H.E. Goat]

24/25 Kendrick felt like 2000 Em

 

[SNG]

2024 and 2025 easily. Kendrick is pretty much a household name now. He’s all over the world right now. 2024/2025 is the year Kendrick hit the stratosphere.

I ain’t seen no shyt like this in hip hop especially him being at 38 doing this.

 

[Big Boss]

24/25

 

[Hum Alistair]

2024/25 is the biggest year I've seen for any rapper, period and that is crazy because Kendrick was already big as fukk in 2017, he was running that shyt.

 

[ManBearPig]

2025