Yesterday Meka informed me that we took the number three spot on VIBE’s 50 Hottest Blogs list. I decided to hold off on posting until we could get that official official word. Welp… dopeboyz and dopegirlz, it’s official! Something I’m extremely proud of actually. We’ve been doing this for less than a year and a half. I’d like to think we did a damn good job to be ranked so high in the short amount of time we’ve been running. This past year has been surreal. Hearing an artist I’ve been listening to for at least 10 years shout our site out is amazing. Every time I even hear of people knowing about the site, it’s a great feeling. I truly wanna thank the dopeboyz for continuously coming to the site and letting us do what we do.
I also wanted to point out that the NMC took 5 of the top 11 spots (6 if you count the lovely unofficial first lady). Big ups to everyone, wherever you placed (full list after the jump). Our time has come….
MEKA: Around this time two years ago I was an office jockey, making coffee and stuck feeling like I was going nowhere fast. What a difference two years makes. It’s still an amazing feeling knowing what I do is recognized by people to this day, and I thank each and every supporter, follower, commenter, shit-talker and detractor alike for getting us to the level it’s at more. We still got much more for everyone, so just keep it locked here. Now if you’ll excuse me, I got to bark on a few heads about my money, Dame Dash-style.
1. Nah Right
2. Kanye’s Blog
3. 2dopeboyz
4. Missinfo.tv
5. OnSmash
6. You Heard That New
7. Cocaine, Blunts & Hip Hop Tapes
8. Ill Doctrine
9. AllHipHop.com Rumors
10. RapRadar
11. Dajaz1.com
12. The Smoking Section
13. Fake Shore Drive
14. Get Right Music
15. World Star Flip Flop
16. Mixtape Monday
17. H.E.R
18. The Meaning Of Dope
19. The MegatronDon
20. The T.R.O.Y blog
21. The Rap Up
22. Beats and Rants
23. SOHH Blogs
24. Vladtv.com
25. Elitaste
26. KidCudi.com
27. Don’t Get Gassed
28. Kim Osorio’s Blog
29. Byron Crawford
30. Hip Hop Is Read
31. Fat Lace
32. Notes From a Different Kitchen
33. Nola Bounce
34. Rosenberg Radio
35. Xclusives Zone
36. DallasPenn.com
37. So Many Shrimp
38. Zilla Says
39. Unkut.com
40. Bust The Facts
41. Uggh,…Nice Watch
42. Maurice Garland
43. Slang Rap Democracy
44. Mista Jam’s Blogs
45. Metal Lungies
46. ThePressPlayShow
47. Prancehall,com
48. Straight Bangin’
49. Passion of the Weiss
50. Twankie & Glisten
congrats, this is the kind of shit i want
congrats
Yezzziiirrrr!! “Dopest” site around!
Congrats guys! I only just started coming to yall for that new new within the past 6 months, but i can safely say that I’m hooked and come here every day. I appreciate yall and everything yall do. It takes dedication and yall got it. Congrats again.
Well done 2dopeboyz… U may be no.3 on VIBE’s but to me and many others, you’re no.1…
Congrats fellas.
that is an achievement man,mashallah, that is actually proper good.inshallah the rest of your time will be prosperous
Congrats! You all make my day every time I come here. From the shit talking to the wild ass comment section, the dope music, everything. Keep it up fellas!
Good Shit Shake.
Yea dat…congrats
and Meka bitch haha.
congrats 2dopeboyz! I hope me & my mans site could be as tough as yalls one day.
gj guys!
dont get how nah right outdid u tho..
Ur number one to me… And Onsmash is second…
Congradulations! This is well deserved….
AWESOME! Congrats Shake/Meka you guys are the bees knees (pause)
So you pretty much finished 2nd because counting Kanye’s blog isn’t fair lol.
congrats, thanks for all the work yall do
“dont get how nah right outdid u tho..”
agreed. congrats folks.
Congrats Fellas Shoud Be #1, Keep Going….
Congrats guys. I’m glad one of my favorite blogs is also VIBE’s and even MORE people will know about it.
Celebration
That’s a good look for you guys!
Congrats!
kanye doesnt even write his own blog and its mad repetitive
congrats!
number one on my list. keep it up.
Definitely my #1 spot
congratz
big upppps
congrats, much deserved!
congratulations! you really have gotten far in this game, i appreciate your hard work!
You two are dope … 2 dope in fact … no pun (see “bad joke”)…. Anyways, Big ups man … Peace, and keep it up cuz I check y’all out every freakin day!
DJ JAV…
lol @ xclusive zone number 36 what ahaha
all cause of me
Congrats Meka/ Shake i’ve been a 2dopeboyz supporter since you guys for first made your blog; you guys surely deserved it. Maybe you should have been 1s,t oh well
its politics…
Good shit, keep doin what y’all been doin
I can see kanye beating you out, just because he’s kanye, but honestly, I found this site from nah right and I hardly go back. Ya’ll post almost the same stuff, but the format you guys do is much much better. The comments most of the time are about the post and not a 3 day rambling conversation. The style and graphics and everything is just way better from the pictures to posting mediafire links when you can so nobody has to sit through 8 minutes of zshare ads. It just seems more like a real website ya’ll put time into than slapping a random image and a zshare link up.
Big ups.
congrats shake and meka, def on your grind and appreciate all the work. you guys are hip hop.
Congrats guys! It’s well-deserved. 2DB lives up to the name, always dope!
Big ups gentlemen. Looking forward to the future.
Lighting Speed! lol
Big up to 2dopeboyz baby.Yall keep me up to date on whats fresh in hip-hop
Good shit
Congrats!!!…..Laughin @ World Star Flip Flop…..Keep Up The Good Work!!!
Congrats to the DopeBoyz 5 for 10 shots on me next time y’all are in NYC hahahah!
chuuuuuuuuuch
we need more crooked i exclusivesssssssss
2dopeeeeeeeeeeee
This is the only blog site I regularly visit other than H.E.R. I knew it must of been for a reason.=]
Congrats
Congrats fellas, this is the best site on the net in my book
Congrats! 2dope has been my homepage for like a year now, you guys run this shit
Dopeness! Congrats! Keep up the work and I’ll be a consistent visitor.
I prefer this over Nahright cause I can barely tolerate how everyone comments over there.
gratz… i only started following this site maybe a year ago, and I’ve been an every day reader ever since.
XCLUSIVEZONE.NET lost…
“The comments most of the time are about the post and not a 3 day rambling conversation. The style and graphics and everything is just way better from the pictures to posting mediafire links when you can so nobody has to sit through 8 minutes of zshare ads. It just seems more like a real website ya’ll put time into than slapping a random image and a zshare link up.”
true that ^^ 2db is the only hip hop site i hit up
nah right is mostly weirdos in that comment section i duno wtfs goin on in there man
shit thats sick….congrats
pshh #1 all the way. Been here since the start, congrats!
BOOOOOOOO!!!!! if you aint first you last. haha, just playin, congrats yall, but the next time the list comes out you better be in that numba one spot.
Ya’ll post almost the same stuff, but the format you guys do is much much better. The comments most of the time are about the post and not a 3 day rambling conversation.
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I agree also…NahRight’s comment section is WINcest. Some babbling tards just go on and on there.
2dopeboyz > Kanye’s Blog
nah right for them corny niggas that try to relive that high school lunch table bullshit. 2db was good until i saw their bitchass moves (bias, dickryding, etc). only come here to get that free music. its one of the only blog sights thats consistently updated. they straight disrespected xclusive zone. they the best ones out of the cartel. no comments, no nothing just straight music. worldstar got my video fixes in check. metal lungies be on point. all them other sites are irrelevant. all you really need is hiphopgame & google. ooooooooooooooowwwwwwwwwwww
Massive Props Brothaz Keep doin ya thing!
that paypalyola got you & your boss moving up the ranks. oooooooooooooowwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww
Congrats Shake & Meka. You guys set the standard for music sites. You support the artists by not posting full albums and you help create positive images for the up-and-coming artists. You guys are a class act and somehow keep humor intertwined in each post. It’s been a blast reading this blog for the past year.
– Mr. Needle
2dopeboyz >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> NahRight
Congrats btw guys.
congrats!!! but shame on them for sleeping on “kevinnottingham” <_<
where is Houston So Real, Classic Drug References, It’s All The Way Live and Kevin Nottingham on this list?
HoustonSoReal is *the* Houston rap blog and has been around forever…
CDR was blogging up Jay Electronica, Blu, etc. before all of these major blogs…
It’s All The Way Live STAYS with the live hip-hop exclusives, and there are so few tapers in this genre to begin with, but that’s a whole nuther article…
Hip Hop is Read but no Kevin Nottingham? Kevin Nottingham is the bigger and better version of HHIR, although I think they are affiliated.
(2)dope news
Liked the list, but no Illroots… anywhere?
This is dope.
And I feel like, awesome, since I’ve been coming around here since late 2008 (as of way of Meka’s old blog on The Plantation).
Keep up the good works and try and own Kanye to get that #2.
this is a big deal congrats.yall number 1 in my book!!!!!
big ups my dudes. its no surprise the whole damn NMC is on there. I gotta say they left a couple good blogs off, such as illroots and kevinnottingham. but it wouldnt be a “top list” without some controversy, now would it?
again, congrats on the accomplishment.
Gotdamn that’s what it is, yall definitely deserved it. (actually deserve #1 imo but at least it was 1 of the top 3) I visit this site daily and I gotta say that this is THEE spot where I get my new shit from so I thank you 2 for that.
Congrats
Congrats! without this site id go crazy at work =P
yea niggas! 2dopeboyz doing the damn thing. Congrats on #3, gotta be out eskay next time! haha…
i remember it was June 2008 when i first added y’all to my bookmarks. honestly idk HOW i found out about this site… but thank god i did! congrats to Meka and Shake for the no. 3 spot
i mean y’all and the NMC post nearly the same shit, but its the info and insight y’all add to it that keeps me checking back… that and the consistent posts of exclusive shit lol
once again congrats and keep doin ya thing!
I agree illroots needs to be on there, and I agree xclusiveszone is a little underrated. Mr X holds it down without all the filler and bs inbetween. lol. I can get down.
congrats but wers hiphopdx or thisis50 or they arent blogs? im lost
And that’s why I keep coming here! ;)
You do an amazing, eclectic job with the music, while making us laugh with the best descriptions and blurbs and such, in a witty, dopeboy style!
This 3rd place really feels like 1st, I mean, damn, only behind Kanye and Nahright, two of the other dopest sites around, si it’s fine!
Congratulations and thank you!
Nice. Congrats fellas. Much deserving.
No. 1 on my list!!! Awww I visit everyday for the past year.
HipHopDX isn’t a blog, and if thisis50 made the list then…
I remember first coming here early ’08 via a NMC link. I found Illroots around that same time. Loved it ever since, brush off all haters.
yall are insane with the blogs, u know i be followin both mekz and shakers tracks on music daily . great site man, consider me a fan ;D
Congrats yall boys! I check this site religiously everyday!
straight up, if i were an artist of a dopeness caliber unseen,
you guys would all the exclusives
keep doing your thing and being the best site (forget just blog) ever
Congrats Shake & Meka! I forgot how a found yall site two years ago, but been checking it ever since!
list=suspect… no okay player.. no illRoots… no It’s the Real…. smh @ vibe for accepting buyouts from NahRight…
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Congrats (2)DBZ. But do you guys make money from running a blog?
This is the kind of shit that keeps hip-hop alive good looks 2dopeboyz$
2dopeboyz is my favorite by far far far and i thank you shake and meka!
list is fraudulent for many reasons tho
illroots being omitted is inexcusable. shame on vibe, maybe thats why i havent read it in a year+
mad props, i check the site daily, hopefully next time yall take the number 1 spot! peace
congrats…im glad to see yall getting recognized for the work yall put in!
ye man yall deserve it.
Well deserved. PEACE
Congrats my yall niggas deserve it
i agree very well deserved. but.. next year get that NUMBER ONE SPOT
2dopeboyz>>>Nahright (graphically too)
Props shake n meka
You deserve it!!!
this site and kanye’s are the only two i really go to. nahright is too crowded to me. fifty-leven thousand comments on everything. i feel like its more of a close-knit family on here, haha. congrats big homies.
This is def the best blog site around.. im on it every day multiple times a day.. it should be number one!!
respect,keep it up meka and shake
dopeness runs in the family….
Yo congrats to ya’ll, not only the music but the culture, overall material if you will is second to none. I thank you both for giving a fck about music and the color commentary is a +…Lakeshow 09= NBA CHAMPS
Congrats dudes, this is pretty huge I must admit
I had a music blog running for about a year and a half, that shit is hard work and it eventually fell apart because I couldn’t make time for it plus dealing with artists representatives got a bit hasty so it dwindled into nothingness.
You put in your work and both of you should be damn proud
well done guys.
but no illroots.
list is tripin.
The NMC should have easily taken the top 10, but they threw some old bullshit in there. Noz and Jay Smooth do good work, but Kanye’s blog? Please. It’s just his own personal bulletin board! NMC is for everyone! Whether you feel hate, love, or are indifferent to an artist the NMC got you covered. And what the fuck is allhiphop rumors? A SECTION of a site made the list? The section that deals with the tabloid bullshit? GET THE FUCK OUTTA HERE!
well deserved. props.
strange
Nah Right hardly has any music.
Kanye’s Blog is completely worthless and obviously not run by him. random pics of girls and shit? cmon..
2db>>Nahright anyday
CONGRATS!
congrats!
2dopeboyz is the only blog i follow so it’s obviously my number one. Congrats from Sydney, Australia
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this site would be MUCH better w/o quest.dvious.jd.vx.fcc…..etc…… and all that other elementary school beginner shit yall be TRYIN to force feed down the peoples throat…the masses STILL WONT take it…and those samelame artists STILL (even with MILLIONS of people seeing their posts) aint really poppin in the street….yall should expose those truly talented workn from the ground up & creating a buzz of THEIR OWN instead of your http://www.friends., just so you cornballs can get the credit of bein up on it since way back….
SHAKE & MEKA = THE BIGGEST CORNBALLS OF THE NMC
REAL TALENT >>>>>>>>>>>>>EXPOSURE ON 2dBOYZZ
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I’ve been coming here since the Genesis. Fully deserved guys.
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wow congrats. well deserved its tragic what happened to hiphopdx over the last 2 years. didnt even make the list, thank the trolls ruining every article and the poorly written stories for that.
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