A big shout goes out to Run DMC for being elected into the Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame. Hip-Hop is really bigger than rock music though. The best Hip-Hop deejays spin funk, soul, jazz, rock and even classical music. Anything that will make you nod your head to the beat is fair game. R.I.P. Jason Mizell.
Here’s something for you to do at home if this is a lazy basketball watching Sunday for you. I’ve put together another one of my ridiculously truthful, but infamously totally unscientific bar graphs which charts the greatest rap music duos of all time. Actually, we have only graphed the top 5 so all of you Whodini and Nice & Smooth stans might be a bit butthurt.
The determining factors were the influence on the rap genre itself while also considering the lyrical content of the artists and their overall catalog. The biggest point of contention has been the placement of Redman and Method Man ahead of OutKast AND A Tribe Called Quest. What most complainants have been unable to register is that Redman has given birth to the styles of Grammy winning rapper Ludacris and the rapper in every whites top 5 – Eminem.
The point I’m stressing here is that Redman and Method Man may not have a catalog as a duo with the same sales numbers as some of the other artists in the top 5 but when you consider their overall body of work you are looking at two of the most important and prolific artists of all time with the rap music genre.
Plus, How High >>> Idlewild, and the Meth & Red show > Class of 3000
red and meff are defiantly up high on the list. but i think if you are going to have red and meth… don’t you almost have to put raekwon and ghostface? OB4CL is damn near a group album…
RAGU is top 6
D- nice post, caught it at the x spot; its sure to get people pissed with your red and meth placement… as it should. of course i had to weigh in with my de la stannery, ha.
peace
Mobb Deep?
What happen to Ill Al Skratch? I’m joking about Ill Al Skratch, but I’m sure everyone was playing “Where my Homies?” back in 93′. Why is EPMD not on this list? Their overall body of work is crazy & they put on Redman, Keith Murray, K-Solo, and Das EFX.
EPMD did definitely give us the first look at Redman, but that was after he wrote some of E Double’s most fire verses. Redman is a truly prolific emcee. That is why he, combined with Meth, garner the placement I gave them.
real talk, i been banging [||] out to some red & meth freestyles and shit on youtube all week…. the older i get the more i appreciate red
If it’s influence, I would like to shout arguably the best 2-man routine of all time:
Ronnie C and KK Rockwell aka Double Trouble….BLUEPRINT for it all. Ok, so their catalog barely exists but ask Run and D….
who reme,bers the show King Faux?
G-A-N-G to the STARR SUN!
MONKEYS ON PAROLE
yo d
sometime after you left the a, me and davy dmx (one for the treble, the breaks, etc.) became good friends. he lives down here in the atlanta area (about two exits from hurricane of the beasties and run-dmc fame) as does cut creator, funkmaster wizard wiz, spyder d etc. real good and humble dude. anyway, if you watch the run-dmc HOF induction speech, you’ll see hurricane and dave (black leather kangol, left side of stage) up there with the run-dmc entourage. i know this because he made me watch the induction about twelve times…..whats good DAVE!!!!!!!!!! we’ll stop over there next month when you return my mans…..
nice graph by the way. i love CHARTS and GRAPHS! they help me to visualize what is being said [ll]
how could i 4get the Clipse…. the brothers Thorton r microphone assassins
no bad…
M fucken o fucken p is on the move!