Billboard Ranks Hip Hop's Top-Charting Producers

Billboard magazine’s has released their annual top R&B/Hip Hop producers list and the new comers stole the show for 2010. Mainstays like Kanye West, Just Blaze, T-Pain and Salaam Remi were nowhere to be found on the 2010 list. However; other vets like Swizz Beatz, will.i.am, Missy Elliott, and The Legendary Traxter rounded out the top 25. It should be noted that Billboard’s list is based on both hip-hop critics and the amount of singles each producer landed in the “Hot 100” chart. Check out the top 25 below: