Your Top 10 rappers

My personal favorites, in order:

1) NaS

2) The Notorious B.I.G.

3) Wu-Tang Clan (as a whole)

4) Jay-Z

5) Ghostface Killah (My favorite rapper of the Clan, and one of the most consistent rappers out there)

6) Raekwon (Second favorite from the Wu)

7) Kanye West

8) Common

9) Lupe Fiasco

10) A Tribe Called Quest

[QUOTE="kozzy1234"]

Best Right Now

1. San Quinn

2. Crooked I

3. Ya Boy

4. Tech9ne

5. Bun B

6. Messy Marv

7. Devin The Dude

8. Kweli

9. Turf Talk

10. Masta Ace/Mistah FAB

SHOUTOUTS TO = The Roots, Living Legends, Keak Da Sneak, Cormega, Eminem, Krypto, Big Daddy Kane and Mc Eiht

Mkavanaugh77

Yup.... Crooked I the truth!

My top rappers in no particular order

T.I.

Kanye West

Eminem

The Game

Lil Wayne

Lupe Fiasco

Young Jeezy

Yo Gotti

50 Cent

Honorable Mentions and some of my favorite Down South Rappers

DMX

Lil Wyte

Allstar

Pastor Troy

Playa Fly

Eightball & MJG

Plus too many more to mention

Apparently I'm the only one here who doesn't listen to gangsta.Cherokee_Jack

No order

aesop rock

mr lif

mf doom

roots manuva

cannibal ox (god i hope they return)

Junk science

cool calm pete

murs

Tricky

Edan

So, no your not.

I don't know enough about the genre to make a top ten. The last "rap" I enjoyed was this one. Wowzers, has it really been 15 years?

*edit*

I forgot about this rap.

So my tentative top ten looks something like this:

1. Master P

2. Silkk tha Shocker

3. Onyx

4. ?

5. ?

6. ?

7. ?

8. ?

9. ?

10. ?

In no particular order:

Nas - Creativity
Jay-Z - Wordplay ****
Big Pun - Lyrical Skill
Rakim - Mono tone ****content
Lupe Fiasco - All around nice
Jadkiss - Wordplay
Royce Da 5'9 - Lyrical Skill good wordplay
Eminem - Lyrical skill creativity
Busta Rhymes - Lyrcially creative
Redman - Wordplay great one liners
The Notorious B.I.G. - All around nice
Fabolous - Lyrically skilled nice wordplay
Outkast - content creativity lyrical skill

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WS_zP8qRKVQ

San Quinn - Look What Ive Done For Them

If youve never heard of San Quinn before, PLEASE PLEASE check this song/video out! ITs amazing! Hes actually saying something!!!! Awesome track!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WS_zP8qRKVQ

San Quinn - Look What Ive Done For Them

If youve never heard of San Quinn before, PLEASE PLEASE check this song/video out! ITs amazing! Hes actually saying something!!!! Awesome track!

kozzy1234

[QUOTE="kozzy1234"]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WS_zP8qRKVQ

San Quinn - Look What Ive Done For Them

If youve never heard of San Quinn before, PLEASE PLEASE check this song/video out! ITs amazing! Hes actually saying something!!!! Awesome track!

N3P5T3R

Glad ya enjoyed it man, San Quinn is a rare rapper in this day and age. I would LOVE to see San Quinn and Crooked I do an album together. IMO they the two best on the westcoast since 2Pac.

lol anyone ever heard Brother Ali? albino with skills and soulwagexslave

Yea, man...Brother Ali is great.:)

Here's my list in no particular order....

Slug (Atmosphere)

Cunninlynguists

Tupac

Nas

Panacea (great group, check em out)

The Roots

Wade Waters (again, great, largely unknown group)

Brother Ali

Eminem

Immortal Technique (others have said he isn't that good, he recycles etc...just listen to songs such as "You Never Know". Great, great song.)

Honourable mentions go to Murs, Common Market, Braille, Common, Sadistik, One Be Lo, Lupe Fiasco and Blu.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WS_zP8qRKVQ

San Quinn - Look What Ive Done For Them

If youve never heard of San Quinn before, PLEASE PLEASE check this song/video out! ITs amazing! Hes actually saying something!!!! Awesome track!

kozzy1234

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