Best Rapper

Andre 3000, Big Boi, Lil wayne, Clipse, Brotha Lynch, Ludacris, Snoop.

I dont care what yall say about Lil Wayne...he is a great rapper...he doesnt just talk about money and bitches....Thats all you hear of his because thats all they play on the radio/MTV. My favorite song by lil wayne would have to be "i feel like dying"

I am sittin' on the clouds, I got smoke comin' from my seat
I can play basketball with the moon, I got the whole world at my feet
Playin' touch football, on marijuana street
Or, in a marijuana field, you are so beneathe my cleets
Get high, so high, that I... feel... like... flying
Down in a cigar, roll me up and smoke me 'cause...
(I feel like dying)

Only once the drugs are done, that I feel like dying... I feel like dying
Only once the drugs are done, that I feel like dying... I feel like dying
(I feel like, I feel like, I feel like...)

Swimming laps around a bottle of Louis the Thirteenth
Jumpin' off of a mountain into a sea of Codeine
I'm at the top of the top, but... still I climb
And if I should ever fall, the ground would then turn to wine
Pop, pop, I feel like flying, then I feel like frying, then...
(I feel like dying)

Only once the drugs are done, that I feel like dying... I feel like dying
Only once the drugs are done, that I feel like dying... I feel like dying
(I feel like, I feel like, I feel like...)

I can mingle with the stars, and throw a party on Mars
I am a prisoner, locked up behind Xanac bars
I have just boarded a plane, without a pilot
And violets are blue, roses are red
Daisies are yellow, the flowers are dead
Wish I can give you this feeling... I feel like buying
And if my dealer don't have no more, then...
(I feel like dying)

Only once the drugs are done, that I feel like dying... I feel like dying
Only once the drugs are done, that I feel like dying... I feel like dying

 

Kanye West, Lupe Fiasco, Jay-z, Nas, Andre 3000, Elzih

 

Wow...Common, Lupe Fiasco, Talib Kweli, Papoose, Immortal Technique, Sage Francis, Mos Def, Guru, MF DOOM, Snoop Dogg, Warren G, Chip Tha Ripper, Apathy

Groups like: Jurrasic 5, Group Home, Beastie Boys, Run DMC, Public Enemy, UGK, Three 6 Mafia, A Trible Called Quest, The Roots

Producers like: The Alchemist, Hi-Tek, Kanye West, DJ Premier of course Dr Dre

There are so much more too

 

I would have to say LL COOL J...

Hands down, I would say he is the most lyrically creative rapper of all time. If you go back to all of his earlier work, with the original Rock The Bells, Jack The Ripper, and all the other stuff he did around that time and before that, he dominated the airways. He took "battling" to a whole new level, and made it a lyrical cliffhanger everytime you heard that he had beef with some other rapper - always ending the rap with you balling up your fist and putting it over your lips while you make the "Oooo" (in amazement) sound.

Run DMC, Heavy D, Eric B. & Rakim, KRS-1, Big Daddy Kane, also deserve respect too, but none of them came close to the success and popularity as Uncle L has over the years.

 

main flow schools all them dudes

 

RZA, method man, ghostface killah, raekwon, u god, inspectah deck, masta killa, old dity bastard, mf doom.

 

I like the goons, (Necro, Ill Bill, Mr Hyde Gortex) and immortal technique

 

Jim Jones - So Harlem ft. Max B

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d7y1FMoeONQ&feature=related

We need to sit & talk (2:12 with him) before it go further
Mo money mo murder ??
And we will pop at you
And whoever you got with you (blatttt)
My muslim niggaz too hard (hustle hard)
Cop jewels new cars (stafalah)
Take guns to jumar
Tryna avoid a new charge (lotti)??
Now I salaam to that & drop a bomb to that (stafalah)
It's war in these streets no sleep we
insomniacs (no sleep nigga):sifone:

 

There is no way in hell any of those new school rapper wannabees could have a smidgeon of talent that the old school guys had.

Their raps didn't center around Cash, hoes, weed and rides. Because that stuff didn't matter enough to them back then that they had to incorporate it into their raps with emphasis. Jay-Z started all that shit talking about the riches he's acquired, and guess how it was paid for... through the money you donated to him by buying his records, because you thought his "flow" was unique.

Now compare your new jack list to Public Enemy... None of those "wet behind the ears" kids of yours could even come close to Chuck D's greatness.

 

Right...

I was sitting on my fire escape and I saw...
sturdy bridges, decorated with dirty pigeons
a vagabond begging for three pennies and a princess
a junkie tourniquet surgeon urging the needle in
a batty senior citizen flashing that awful teethless grin
I saw a corner store merchant rest on a milk crate with a stog'
a pierced nose, a model with a stalker, cheap hooker, jay walkers
a table on a sidewalk with four old men slappin' dominos down
a city, a village, a neighborhood, a ghost town
I saw vandals catching tags and Puerto Rican flags
I saw a pregnant woman on the verge of bursting (boom)
I saw a blind man with a dog screaming 'someday I'll see it all'
and then he sat down with his hammer and saw
business men with multi-colored ties, cashmere checks
a nazi with tattoos on his neck, a Vietnam war vet
a Caucasian man with a limp and a cane, a pimp with his names
a thug circus, a pack of shook tourists hugging their purses
I saw freaks with rainbow streaks in dayglo hair
a mother smackin' the grin off her child, replaced it with a stare
a pothole, a storefront with a broken open sign
a hole in the wall bar kicking drunks to the gutter, it's closing time
I see a f**k up, a bum knuckle up with a taxi driver
a squatter, a grandfather, an angry right-to-lifer
I can see the roof garden on the apartment across the street

and kick myself because somewhere along the way I lost my seeds
I see a rat, a roach, a bat approach, a happy student
a black man with a horn and a will to make you sit and listen to it
I see a little girl on the corner with bubbles, braids and barrettes
I see a teen mother with similak pacifier and regrets
oh, a day turned stale, a hammer with a rusty nail, a failed marriage
a universe of brick buildings slightly off balance
a challenge, I see a chance to add real colors to my favorite palette
raise my mighty mallet towards the gods and swing my talons
I see a crack in the sidewalk
a slide show of six civilians gripping bottles of gideon
sitting inside bent meridian
there's a fun house ooh, a sun spout
spraying yellow beams above yellow back dreams
and children in the hydrants
tyrants(?), I see sirens
the wall to the glamor standard
a dead bird, a bent curb
a bus stop of commuters waiting to have their souls towed off to work
I seen the slap dash habits of bike messengers paws
and hug that good leaf on the way to damaged packages, dependence
oh my lord, I see bandwagons, all aboard
a carnival amusement park where a heart is a luxury
I see a gas galaxy huddled behind those pearly doors
maybe I should sit up on my fire escape a little more

 

stones throw records peoples, and gimme summa that hyphy shit yadadamean

 

MF DOOM, MF GRIMM, Aesop Rock, Mr. Lif, Brother Ali, POS, Hieroglyphics, Phillip Morris, Verbal Kent, Studemont Project, Blueprint, One Self...I'd better stop or I won't get anything accomplished today

 

The best rapper alive is arguably Nas.

The illest emcee alive is arguably Canibus.

The best rap group - Wu-Tang Forever. no doubt there.

 

Yeah, and then he got his career wrecked by canibus, a real emcee. LL is wack.

 

I'm with him ^

 

And where is Canibus now? He doesn't come close to the amount of success that Uncle L has had over the years. No television show of his own, no shrine full of music awards, no collection of motion pictures under his belt.... Nothing. And usually the success of a rapper these days is based on his talent and marketability.

...Something Canibus, Nas, or any of these "johnny-come-lately" pipsqueaks will never have, other than selling cd's out the back of their trunk.

 

Ice Ice Baby....

 

your a fuckin idiot! lmao thats why Nas' album sold the most this week??? your fuckin braindead. That shit got like 9/10 and 10/10 rating everywhere, nigga is probbly gonna win a grammy for this shit.

and canibus is still rapping today, and he's iller than ever. my whole argument is practically 2nd Round K.O. Have you heard that track? I hope so cuz its the truth. let me just quote the line that destroyed LL as an emcee in the REAL hip-hop community. And this community has or cares nothing about awards or prizes, we base soley on quality of the rhymes, beats, and message.

"You walk around showin-off your body cuz it sells
plus to avoid the fact that u aint got skills
mad at me cuz I kick that shit real niggas feel
when 99 percent of your fans wear high-heels"

reread that. okay. Practically 99% of his fans are dumb hoes who like him cuz his body, not his music. they the reason he has all those awards. Please homie, dont mention LL again, he's nonexistent in real hip-hop.

like Immortal Technique said it best.

"If your message aint shit, fuck the records you sold
cuz if you go platinum, its got nothin to do wit luck
it just means that a million people are stupid as fuck"

nigga you aint hip-hop get the fuck off this forum please. How dare you diss NAS is HIP-HOP forum? Thats like saying Hail Hitler in the middle of Israel.

 

Canibus is pretty mediocre, look at his rhyme scheme. But yah, who gives a fuck how many record someone sold? Doesn't mean that they're any good.

 

^have you heard poet laureate infinity and the new 'C' of Tranquility shit. I think the man is so sick with rhyming its incredible, the most fertile imagination in hip-hop. go on youtube and look em up. Bis just needs good producing, which has always been inconsistent throughout his career. after Rip The Jacker, he should just get Stoupe from Jedi Mind Tricks to produce all his tracks lol.