The Best Rappers of New Gen KPOP (3rd + 4th Gens) +Ranked List W/Receipts

The results are in! With the top 3 results for men charting from poll data (others from a summary of this thread), here is :

AKP's List of Best K-Pop IDOL Rappers of 3rd & 4th Generations!

Top Male Rappers:

#1 RM (BTS) 👑

2. Bobby (Ikon)

3. Suga (BTS)

4. Mino (WINNER)

5. Monsta X's Jooheon

6. Monsta X's IM

7. Stray Kids's Changbin

8. Stray Kids's Han

9. iKON's BI

10. BTS's J-Hope

11. NCT's Mark

12. NCT's Taeyong

13. MCND's rapline (as a whole)

Top Female Rappers

#1 Soyeon ((G)I-DLE) 👑 Jessi is up there too but is she a K-Pop idol?

2. Lisa (BLACKPINK)

3. Jennie (BLACKPINK)

4. Yeeun (CLC) & Mimi (Oh My Girl) TIED

5. Moonbyul (MAMAMOO)

6. Dami (Dreamcatcher)

7. Jinny (SECRET NUMBER)

8. Hwasa (MAMAMOO)

Disclaimer/Final Notes: A reminder that none of this thread takes away from any of the candidates' real rapping merits or rapping talent, or official, legitimate recognition from both the Korean Pop or Korean Hip Hop industries, from top veterans and artists from both categories and experts in the field (especially from the latter).

The pool of the people who voted for the polls some of these results are based off of are K-Pop idol enthusiasts, and do not necessarily specialize in, have or retain knowledge or claim to be real rap experts. This poll and chart is all for fun & informational's sake, and to get the forum into a little fun competitive friendly spirit as well as create & inform people of the data & information on this part of the real (largely International) K-Pop community's thoughts on the top talents of the new generation of K-Pop.

Rap Battle Threads Used for Reference:

{ RM vs. Suga vs. Bobby vs. Mino }

I may also make Rap Battle threads from time to time if we can't settle the ranking between certain idol rappers and link them here! If you want me to make one, request one! (Or just make it yourself & tag me and I will list it here.)

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New Gen stans always like to talk about sales numbers & YT views, Daesangs, International accolades & Met Gala appearances & Coachella blablabla,

but to me loving KPOP has always been about knowing EVERYTHING about the genre, including not just numbers rankings but *WHO'S* THE BEST OF THE BEST at MUSIC!

Honestly even tho we're already talking about 4.5 Gen I'm *STILL* learning about new gen KPOP & I feel like we haven't talked about talent enough!

Let's decide RIGHT HERE and NOW who the best rappers are!

For me it's:

Jessi - She's a New Kind Of Beast! Even threatening to give CL a run for her money as Baddest Female

Soyeon ((G)-IDLE) Everyone calls her the New generation CL & she even produces her own raps DUHH!

Yeeun from CLC (1:25 timestamp)

Lisa & Jennie (BLACKPINK)

Dreamcatcher's Dami (1:32-1:37, 1:45-1:48)

BTS rapline Suga, RM & J-Hope

1 VERSE by Jhope

Stream 1 VERSE by Jhope by BTS on desktop and mobile. Play over 265 million tracks for free on SoundCloud.

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Stray Kids

That Mark kid from NCT that someone posted a thread about the other day here was pretty good too.

IKON's Bobby & BI are rly good too (esp Bobby)

Everyone always talks about Song Mino from WINNER (tho I've only heard one of his songs before & don't rly remember it) so we'll count him too

Discuss, debate, post receipts, & pimp your faves! BEGIN!

ADDED: Suggested by users (mostly) & agreed by me

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No

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MCND

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OH MA GAWWWD

I HAD NO IDEA WHO THOSE BOYS WERE before watching this vid TBH

(STILL DON'T, ACTUALLY 😅)

But they just *might* be the best of new gen Kpop! Even better than Stray Kids!!

🤯

Who are theyy???

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Oh My Girl Mimi

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Wow she has always been my fave member of Oh My Girl ever since I saw lives of Nonstop (tho just a casual listener), but I had no idea she was *this* good! She's *really* good!!

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Just adding ones who haven't been mentioned

Jooheon and I.M of Monsta X

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B.I

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They're really good too! I see why I'm always hearing about them~~ ☺️ "Joohoney" reminds me of Zico vibes

(low-key; but not as good obvi)

And that B.I performance esp wow 😮

Tho I still think Monsta X is better overall 🤔 I only really heard B.I's rapping in iKON's title tracks & in this 1 English collab song that came up randomly on my YT Music yesterday, but it was pretty good so I added it to my playlist.

But now I see why it's always "Bobby *&* B.I" when people talk about iKON's rapping.

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I agree with you... alot.

For upcoming 4th Gen BG's I'd recommend the MCND and P1HARMONY's raplines!

Awesome! That means sm to me :shyy:

Could you please post some P1HARMONY receipts too? I've heard about them a lot too recently for some reason but wasn't sure why ppl were so excited about them, so I'm glad to hear it's about their rapping and would love to hear more 😀 💗

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I don't have much to contribute sadly because you have already mentioned the rappers who I feel are actual rappers in this thread. But I did want to point out that I like the spirit of your thread, as opposed to most threads that involve any type of skills on this forum (vocals, dancing, rapping, etc) which usually begin with "My faves are the best". I appreciate you trying to give everyone an opportunity to hype up their favorite groups. I for one appreciate the sentiment.

Thank you sm!! 🥰

You know like I said, (I've been around the whole time) but I still feel like I don't know as much stuff about the new gens as I did the old gens (probably because there's so many groups nowadays?).

And I really wanted to get to the bottom of the truth. 😀 I'm a person who likes really facts & the pursuit of knowledge.

I absolutely agree people should be more open-minded about other groups in K-POP especially nowadays, because there's so many groups and I've only been realizing recently there's a lot of good talent in the new gens that I--and I'm sure many other people--have been missing.

There's a missing sense of comraderie & kinship as a KPOP community that I've been missing from older gens, lol, like when all KPOP fans, even their rivals Super Junior fans voted for Big Bang to win MTV EMAs award because they considered it a win for everyone in the genre as a whole.

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Wow this discussion and the list is very different from k-hip-hop discussions online

Can you care to enlighten us? Receipts?? 😀

I'd be surprised if they were talking about idols at all when it comes to rapping, besides Jessi & maybe Soyeon ofc cuz her collabs lmao

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They somewhat like B.I lmao , I mean he is somewhat love in the community

Fair enough. (Was he on a rap survival show like Bobby was? ) Anyone else??

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Also if you ever gonna make a vocal thread it's Day6 for me

YAAAAAAAAASSSsss Zombie & Congratulations superiority>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

I was thinking of really making one lol. 😅 But I couldn't think of that many groups besides Aespa & Wendy........😅 BTS are pretty good too ofc but not 2nd generation-level or anything

3rd & 4th gen are doomed vocally, esp 4th gen besides Aespa

Tho since Aespa is officially starting 4th gen today, perhaps there's still hope!

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Yes he was in SMTM3 with Bobby

I knew it!! 🤩 Thank you 👍

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In the third generation, I prefer BTS rap line, Bang Yongguk, Yezi.

My favorite rapper is Soyeon for the forth generation.

BTS's rapline are rap gold, definitely one of the best if not THE best!

AND FOR 3RD GEN OMG I COMPLETELY FORGOT ABOUT BYG 😱 But yaaaaas he's one of the OG's in KPOP, totally inspired BTS's rapline into debuting & KPOP to look into underground rappers for talent!

I used to be a BAP stan back in the day, one of the reasons was their rapline. Zelo too can't forget his LTE raps! Definitely one of the best of 3rd gen & so iconic.

While we're talking about the best 3rd Gen KPOP rappers who started underground (excl. Zelo), I forgot to mention LE from EXID! Iconic bitch.

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In the third generation, I prefer BTS rap line, Bang Yongguk, Yezi.

My favorite rapper is Soyeon for the forth generation.

Can u post some Yezi videos?

I always hear about her but never rly heard one of her songs before 

Soyeon is DEF the best female rapper from an idol group! Not up for debate!

(unless someone else wants to prove me wrong XD).

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Yeah I know but I don't care about this "generation" thing in kpop. Music in general tbh. I only have 2 categories. Current and All Time.

I guess I was really putting them there in the title to ask about the most recent/current gens lol 😛 I wasn't thinking about the past that much either 🤷🏻‍♀️

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This is their rap line trio.

Okay yeah, the argument can definitely be made that they're one of the best rapping groups of 4th generation. 🙂