Who the fuck is the best rapper?

[Otis Driftwood]

Who has the best mic skills in your opinion? And why does this thread not exist yet???

[DIGI]

It has...........about 10,000 times.


I'd say Talib Kweli/Big L/Rakim/Watkin Tudor Jones.


Take your pick.

[roosta]

MC Skat Kat

[beastie fresh]

MC Hammer

[customX]

IMO Big L for best punchline rapper
Biggie for best storyteller

[Guy Incognito]

Best voice - Q Tip
Best rhymes - Rakim

[mickill]

Rakim
Jay Z
Nas
B.I.G.
Bizarre

[saml]

Rakim

[Otis Driftwood]

Hmm, I was really asking myself about nothing but the technical skills. I love Chali 2na, Talib and Mos Def, but I think noone is as fast as Busta Rhymes....

[DIGI]

SPEED KILLS.

[g-mile7]

who's the best? Pac, Nas and Big
Ain't no best, East, West, North, South


if we goin list out "rappers" if one single one then peep the avatar

[roosta]

if the thread were Who the fuck is the most overrated rapper ever? then i would agree....

[g-mile7]

if the thread were Who the fuck is the most overrated rapper ever? then i would agree....


I was waiting for someone to say that:( but it's your opinion, as I have my own and could explain it (which I do all the time on here) in-depth.

[Matt]

2 Pac had a lot of interesting things to say, and he was an excellent poet, but I wouldn't call him the best rapper ever.

I agree with the concensus on Rakim. also, Run DMC in their heyday, but not after 1987 or so.

[Auton]

who is the BEST rapper? like technically the best?

Jay Z.

to be perfectly honest, I don't think tupac would ever be anywhere on my list. best hip hop SONGS, or ALBUMS? yes. but not the flat-out best RAPPER.

and even though I like him alot... Big L? the best ever? no way.

[Auton]

same goes for run dmc

[The Notorious LOL]

Rappin Rodney

[Bob]

milk

[The Notorious LOL]

milk is chillin!

[g-mile7]

who is the BEST rapper? like technically the best?

Jay Z.

to be perfectly honest, I don't think tupac would ever be anywhere on my list. best hip hop SONGS, or ALBUMS? yes. but not the flat-out best RAPPER.

and even though I like him alot... Big L? the best ever? no way.


Big L had only two Lps, thus you have nothing to compare him to in terms of overal growth and so forth. Jay-Z is a good pick. I think alot of us have diffrent definitions of "rapper" and what makes one the best.

[Auton]

or maybe you're just a tupac-loving bitch

[g-mile7]

or maybe you're just a tupac-loving bitch



your cool, no really you are. And at least I don't try and sound like Pac when I flow. you so don't sound like Mike D when you rap.No really

[Auton]

dont make me tell the board about how you TOTALLY DONT listen to chubb rock's entire discography all the time, emulating his style every time you get the chance. because you totally don't, right?

[g-mile7]

dont make me tell the board about how you TOTALLY DONT listen to chubb rock's entire discography all the time, emulating his style every time you get the chance. because you totally don't, right?


Man go sample some more shit from your Pink Floyd Collection(n)

[Auton]

I got a mile, much bigger than yours/ in matter fact i got a bigger mile sitting in my drawers (or whatever he says, but still (n) )

[g-mile7]

I got a mile, much bigger than yours/ in matter fact i got a bigger mile sitting in my drawers (or whatever he says, but still (n) )



HAHAHAHAHA I do not remember that':) he has a mile sitting in his drawers so unorginal ;)



Right now I am currently wearing a pac shirt (figures right) at work and one of my co-workers (45+ female white) came up to me and asked if I have seen the documnetry on Pac. Then started to discuss why she likes him, feels he is misunderstood and how he was still young. People seem to forget he was very young when he started to blow up. That made my day and showed me even more some the peope on here don't know shit about Pac or his impact. Much more then a rapper. Just thought I'd share that with y'all :)

[steve-onpoint]

MC Subjective

[Kid Presentable]

Bizarre

lol. The fuck?

I like Nas better as a LYRICIST, but Jay does the rap thing better, in delivery, the way he composes, his songs as a whole, live presence, whatever.

Another sentimental favourite is Mos Def for 69% of black on both sides.

Lyrically, my favourites would be

Blueprint
3:16, 9th edition
Lost Tapes
Black on Both sides
Devil's Night

[zorra_chiflada]

MC Skat Kat
haha

[Gareth]

milk is chillin!

gizmo's chillin!

[Ημισκούμπρια]

Dr. Dreez.

[Ally Al]

best ? too hard to call i think

melle mel and chuck d will always be two of my favourite mc's simply because of the sound of their voices

krs because he's just an animal on the mic

rakim because he took it to a whole nutha level

G Rap because he doesn't get enuff shine and he's always ripped it for me

Gift of Gab always brings it

Del

Jay Z, Nas, Ghostface, eminem (fuck what you think, before his beats became so lame, he's a very very good mc), redman, pharoahe Monch, Kool Keith (another mc that changed the game), Doom who i'm sure peeps will disagree with but i like his style and he makes me laugh, Pos and Dave, Murs has skills and tell a good tale in his i'm just a normal dude kind of way, i always loved run's flow back in the day, kweli and mos,and so on and so and so on

[Lex Diamonds]

gizmo's chillin!
What more can I say? Top billin'!

I couldn't name one but here's a few favourites:

2Pac
Nas
Q-Tip
Mos Def
Eazy E
Eminem
Inspectah Deck

[roosta]

eazy e never wrote a rhyme in his life.

[Auton]

98% of all of Deck's verses sound the same.

[Ally Al]

his verse on c.r.e.a.m is a classic tho

[PaddyBoy]

Mr T. He really changed the game with Treat Your Mother Right.

[sab0tage]

Could spend hours thinking about this but I reckon Mr.Lif's flow is up there with the best and Aesop Rock has a really original style and distinctive voice.

Jay-z
Slick Rick
Chester P/Farma G (Taskforce) are great MC's from the UK

[Ally Al]

[QUOTE=sab0tage]Could spend hours thinking about this but I reckon Mr.Lif's flow is up there with the best

shit, i forgot Mr Lif, good call

homegrown MC's for me, usual suspects i guess, skinny, blade, rodney p, roots, aspects crew, scorzayzee, jehst, that micall parknsun can flow, and so on and so on

[Jmoney77]

MCA, hands down is he best

[sab0tage]

[QUOTE=sab0tage]Could spend hours thinking about this but I reckon Mr.Lif's flow is up there with the best

shit, i forgot Mr Lif, good call

homegrown MC's for me, usual suspects i guess, skinny, blade, rodney p, roots, aspects crew, scorzayzee, jehst, that micall parknsun can flow, and so on and so on

Skinnyman is awesome & don't forget Klashnekoff (y)

[Ally Al]

[QUOTE=Ally Al]

Skinnyman is awesome & don't forget Klashnekoff (y)


when does klash's album drop ?

[sab0tage]

when does klash's album drop ?

Not sure, but if you know where I can get The Sagas Of...... on vinyl give me a shout

[CrankItUp!]

Blondie - Rapture, was the first Rap Song to hit U.S. #1 in March and April of 1981 and expose this underground music form to the world .

[kleptomaniac]

MCA, hands down is the best

i agree :)

[adam_f]

"I can take a phrase that's barely heard, flip it/Now it's a daily word.

Rakim. Plain and simple.

[Kid Presentable]

"I can take a phrase that's barely heard, flip it/Now it's a daily word.

Rakim. Plain and simple.

Yeah Rakim was awesome, no doubt. Personally I'd be inclined to name him GOAT rapper if I was there for the whole thing, though. Jigga and Nas I been following from the start (of their appearances in my neck of the woods, anyways).

[g-mile7]

"I can take a phrase that's barely heard, flip it/Now it's a daily word.

Rakim. Plain and simple.


one of the best lines in hip-hop...classic LP

[Junker]

Vanilla Ice!!!!

[Lihi]

Guru.

[CrankItUp!]

Afroman ya mutha fuckas !!! :)

[So Ruff]

Jay-Z. Just imagine all the extra Jay-Z dickriders if he stayed underground his whole career.

[Lex Diamonds]

eazy e never wrote a rhyme in his life.
I know but I love the sound of his voice. He has the most attitude in his voice out of any rapper I can think of. He raps like he's the shit and he knows it.

[Kid Presentable]

I know but I love the sound of his voice. He has the most attitude in his voice out of any rapper I can think of. He raps like he's the shit and he knows it.

"Only the good die young so that makes me young and bad!"

[Bigg Russ]

if the thread were Who the fuck is the most overrated rapper ever? then i would agree....

Wow....beat me too it. :)

[Bigg Russ]

Blondie - Rapture, was the first Rap Song to hit U.S. #1 in March and April of 1981 and expose this underground music form to the world .

No, it wasn't. But I won't get in to that here. ;)

[tpk]

rakim

[wrongwayandugg]

me.

[CrankItUp!]

Trick Daddy

[Guy Incognito]

Just read thru the whole thread and did a count of who got most mentions.

1.Rakim
2. Jay Z
3. Nas

[Videodrome]

straight up.. chunky a.

[icy manipulator]

mellie mel or krs do it for me. i've always liked a bit of flavor flav too

[Justin]

Chuck D! Nobody touches his sound

[camo]

hmmm

lyrics born, KRS1


hmmmm

[z-boy]

Fuck all this best rapper shit, what about best crapper? where's his parade? there should be an award and a parade for the person who can release the most chocolate hostages, and if it rains during his parade he can be all like "why does it always rain on my parade". You wanna know why you ignorant fucks dont give crappers their due respect? Because society makes patsies out them, every last one of them, crappers get blamed for everything, from 911 to bird flue, when deep down everyone knows its those Canadian bastards that orchestrated all that diabolical shit. Its just that the goverment has you monkeys so brainwashed that whenever shit happens the first thing you think of is crappers. Wake up and smell the cheese you pathetic fucks...

peace out...one love to all the battleship(the real battleship, not the Milton Bradley version) playin kids out there droppin bombs like Ted Kaczynski, treating ya moms like miss Lewinsky and then skating like T Lipinski (all the true hedz out there will be able to cite that reference and the way in which the group connects to the Beastie Boys)

[Mcmac]

haaaaha