I feel like you can’t really say Jay and BIG without mentioning Kane. He’s the father of that whole BK style. Also, Big Pun can’t be mentioned without mentioning Kool G Rap. Got to give it up for the forefathers.
and where the hell is EPMD???? and not to date myself but Crash Crew wasthe original 100 membercrew before Wu….CAZ and Cold Crush.. Whodini.. yall ninjas got no memory!!!
DirtyJerz,
Look up P.E.’s first album and listen to that track ‘Firestarter’. I shoulfd ban your IP for not putting P.E. in at the tippy top. Yes, they go in over the Wu.
I’d have to think about my list some more…but Melle Mel is always on it! History and all that…but you can put his verses against anything out and it will stand up.
Fucking painful to see ya’ll repping Jay, however unsurprising. Please know even in BK that not everyone was ever that goddamn impressed. Pretending I’m on the 3 train back to New Lots
MCs
1. Nas
2. KRS-One
3. Rakim (even if he’s washed up now; whatever Eric B. did, it was obviously essential)
4. Ice Cube
5. Melle Mel
GROUPS
1. PE
2. Wu Tang
3. De La Soul
4. Black Moon (or Boot Camp Clik, so we can bring in all them dudes)
5. Brand Nubian (for underappreciated longevity)
(sorry EPMD, Tribe, Stetsasonic, Das Efx, etc.)
I do wish Biggie & Pac were alive so The Game would shut the fuck about ’em. That Newcleus sample on the new shitbomb is beyond garbage too. The truth–
off-hand. My list is on which MCs I enjoy & their catalog/discography, not on their influence on history. I’ll leave the esteemed Dr. Dart Adams, Chair of the Hip Hop History Dept to make a historical influence-based list.
1 Black Thought
2 Phonte
3 Talib Kweli
4 Nas
5 Rakim
6 Chino XL
7 Eminem
8 Jay-Z
9 Big Punisher
10 The Notorious BIG
11 Common
12 Busta Rhymes
13 Ice Cube
14 Tego Calderon
15 Q-Tip
16 Andre 3000
17 Scarface
18 Mos Def
19 Kemo The Blaxican (of Delinquent Habits)
20 KRS-1
I love that people always have to qualify their top 5 with an extra 5-10 because they can’t make up their minds. For me, my top 5 are the dudes I simply love to listen to any day of the week.
WHAT UP FAM!
DOPE VIDEO….. SHOULD BE A SERIES OR A SHORT FILM.
I’m in total agreement that the majority of todays tru mc’s come from one or more of the schools of Rakim, Big Daddy Kane, Kool G Rap, KRS, Slick Rick, LL Cool J & Kool Keith.
RAKIM
*KANE
G RAP
KRS
COMMON
HONORABLE MENTION TO BLACKTHOUGHT, DUDE IS SICKWITIT! DOPE MC.
* MY ALL TIME FAV.
I was just bumping Kane this morning like I still had the Cameo.
1. Tupac
2. Jay
3. NaS
4. Biggie
5. Ice Cube
6. GhostFace
7. ScarFace
8. KRS-1
9. Rakim
10. Big Pun?????
Word is Bawn! when you bring up this topic, you talkin’ about a fight ensuing!!!LOL
1.Jay
2.BIG
3.Ghost
4.Redman
5.KRS
Groups-
1.RunDMC
2.Tribe
3.Wu
4.OutKast
5.Naughty
Females-
1.Jean Grey
2.MC Lyte
3.Queen Latifah
4.Lil’ Kim
5.??? LOL!
Knuckle Up, iNTERNETS!!LOL
“The Carter 3 is the most over-rated album of the year”…YERP!
LAX > Pledge Allegiance to the Grind 2 > Carter 3 >= Untitled > TRILLA > Recession
nah…THA CARTER COMES FIRST….KIP IT LOQD
I feel like you can’t really say Jay and BIG without mentioning Kane. He’s the father of that whole BK style. Also, Big Pun can’t be mentioned without mentioning Kool G Rap. Got to give it up for the forefathers.
Rakim, Big Daddy Kane, Kool G Rap, KRS, Slick Rick, LL Cool J
these dudes are the foundation of everything that’s out there right now… these dudes are the TOP DOGS!!
Individual artists is totally subjective.
But who said groups without including Public Enemy or De La?
Like my homey Maurice Garland said via Chris Rock, “Nigga Please“
and where the hell is EPMD???? and not to date myself but Crash Crew wasthe original 100 membercrew before Wu….CAZ and Cold Crush.. Whodini.. yall ninjas got no memory!!!
LOL…It was I, DirtyJerz who was brave enough to put that out there….now top 10? DeLa and PE would be on it…Top 5 will always be a firestarter!
DirtyJerz,
Look up P.E.’s first album and listen to that track ‘Firestarter’. I shoulfd ban your IP for not putting P.E. in at the tippy top. Yes, they go in over the Wu.
My picks:
Rakim is #1
KRS-1
PE
Nas
Mos
I’d have to think about my list some more…but Melle Mel is always on it! History and all that…but you can put his verses against anything out and it will stand up.
Fucking painful to see ya’ll repping Jay, however unsurprising. Please know even in BK that not everyone was ever that goddamn impressed. Pretending I’m on the 3 train back to New Lots
MCs
1. Nas
2. KRS-One
3. Rakim (even if he’s washed up now; whatever Eric B. did, it was obviously essential)
4. Ice Cube
5. Melle Mel
GROUPS
1. PE
2. Wu Tang
3. De La Soul
4. Black Moon (or Boot Camp Clik, so we can bring in all them dudes)
5. Brand Nubian (for underappreciated longevity)
(sorry EPMD, Tribe, Stetsasonic, Das Efx, etc.)
I do wish Biggie & Pac were alive so The Game would shut the fuck about ’em. That Newcleus sample on the new shitbomb is beyond garbage too. The truth–
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7pWX46lJc1Y
jesus fuck, I gotta put Gang Starr on there somewhere… shit.
off-hand. My list is on which MCs I enjoy & their catalog/discography, not on their influence on history. I’ll leave the esteemed Dr. Dart Adams, Chair of the Hip Hop History Dept to make a historical influence-based list.
1 Black Thought
2 Phonte
3 Talib Kweli
4 Nas
5 Rakim
6 Chino XL
7 Eminem
8 Jay-Z
9 Big Punisher
10 The Notorious BIG
11 Common
12 Busta Rhymes
13 Ice Cube
14 Tego Calderon
15 Q-Tip
16 Andre 3000
17 Scarface
18 Mos Def
19 Kemo The Blaxican (of Delinquent Habits)
20 KRS-1
I love that people always have to qualify their top 5 with an extra 5-10 because they can’t make up their minds. For me, my top 5 are the dudes I simply love to listen to any day of the week.
Raekwon
Ghostface
Chuck D
B.I.G.
Joell Ortiz
These 5 will pwn any 5 you put up against them.
And that is all.
I’d put up this 5 against your 5:
Ghostface
Kool Keith
Andre 3000
ODB
Ice Cube (but only if you pretend he died or lost his voice or something after 1994)
That was my drunken top 5. In actuality i could never pick 5 mc’s or groups and stick with it. lol
My top 5 changes every day too, but that is the fun in making a top 5 list.
It reminds me why I love this rap shit.
1. Nas
2. Jay
3. Pac
4. Big
5. Em
Shouts to Big Daddy Kane and Rakim.
And EVERY album is the most overated album these days.
WHAT UP FAM!
DOPE VIDEO….. SHOULD BE A SERIES OR A SHORT FILM.
I’m in total agreement that the majority of todays tru mc’s come from one or more of the schools of Rakim, Big Daddy Kane, Kool G Rap, KRS, Slick Rick, LL Cool J & Kool Keith.
RAKIM
*KANE
G RAP
KRS
COMMON
HONORABLE MENTION TO BLACKTHOUGHT, DUDE IS SICKWITIT! DOPE MC.
* MY ALL TIME FAV.
-SHALOM