The best rapper of alltime?

[316sherm]

2pac

 

[Jack Davenport]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MVWUd0bV3pI

 

[iluvbriannalove]

i cant pick the best but. im just gunna throw in immortal technique if nobody has mentioned him yet.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Igt-jW4e8ts&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M72zVuBNpEA&feature=related

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

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WA_xXWSXyFI&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CWh077_Ed3w&feature=related

 

[nelmes69]

J-Roc
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T_mJmO7d6FI

 

[on]

 

[coolguy88]

eminem

 

[averageJoe]

Ice-T

 

[habo9]

John Barnes

 

[Hot Mega]

As far as lyrics, delivery, style, metaphors....all time would HAVE to be Chuck D....

I suppose there is a list of about 5 to 7 at 1b......but 1a is Chuck D in my book. I'd say the 1b group would be Big, Pac, Nas, J, Snoop, Em, Rakim....then at 2 would be Pun, Common, Sticky Fingaz, Meth, Ghostface, etc.

Forgotten in this is Keith Murray though...

 

[mastagambit]

As far as lyrics, delivery, style, metaphors....all time would HAVE to be Chuck D....

I suppose there is a list of about 5 to 7 at 1b......but 1a is Chuck D in my book. I'd say the 1b group would be Big, Pac, Nas, J, Snoop, Em, Rakim....then at 2 would be Pun, Common, Sticky Fingaz, Meth, Ghostface, etc.

Forgotten in this is Keith Murray though...

nice list but where is Method Man or Redman or Busta?:dunno:

 

[jasonk282]

As far as lyrics, delivery, style, metaphors....all time would HAVE to be Chuck D....

I suppose there is a list of about 5 to 7 at 1b......but 1a is Chuck D in my book. I'd say the 1b group would be Big, Pac, Nas, J, Snoop, Em, Rakim....then at 2 would be Pun, Common, Sticky Fingaz, Meth, Ghostface, etc.

Forgotten in this is Keith Murray though...

Chuck D is da SHIT.

 

[iluvbriannalove]

i agree Chuck D is the man. Public Enemy probably greatest rap group of all time.

 

[Embryoyo]

I still say CELPH motherfuckin' TITLED. Ya'll are whack fools if you think it's someone not in AOTP [or if you say Jus Allah]. REC.

 

[MagickLyfe]

It would be a matter of opinion I would assume, yet I would say Eminem is the most mathematical. He is vicious and in a league of his own. To say he had fame due to his skin color is absured. He murks the industry and his early amature material is SICK and puts any and all to shame.

For instance, this is Biterphobia from a demo of his back in about '93. ILL!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iGAiervjo2E

Or a few years ahead on his debut album Infinite (before his fame)

Infinite:

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

It's Okay:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KyY-nnGPh34

Tonight:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ai9Gjy1euYA


...many of you will find these refreshing compared to his later material and most of the hip Hop that has come out regardless of year or artist.

He has touched on poverty, domestic disputes/violence, "race", double standards, politics and much more to be deemed a single minded rapper. He is a genius and a true wordsmith like no other.

White America:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oqoWjloHzu8

His newer material is darker in a sense of his viewpoint from that of a serial killer and going on the theme of his relapse to drugs being his relapse to that zany character Slim Shady.



NAS. Poetic.

OutKast. Unique/Poetic/Street/Genre bending.

Hip Hop, as most music these days, has lost it's flare and is nothing more than a commercial jingle.

 

[Hot Mega]

nice list but where is Method Man or Redman or Busta?:dunno:

I have Meth there but Busta is a miss for 1b (definitely versatile style, lyrics, delivery, timing, etc.), Redman is probably 3rd tier IMO.

 

[Bloodshot Scott]

He will go down as the greatest Caucasion rapper ever when he id done, WAY better than Eminem:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bu7kYrffpO4&NR=1

:bowdown:

 

[on]

He will go down as the greatest Caucasion rapper ever when he id done, WAY better than Eminem:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bu7kYrffpO4&NR=1

:bowdown:

there's no best rapper, and it's not certainly him if there was! You can put them all forward to battle, to come out with someone on that basis! But there's no best rapper! If I had to list ten I'd have trouble!

 

[BlueBalls]

Speak!!!


Ye come on

 

[jasonk282]

Chuck D, Snow, Vanilla Ice.

 

[Hot Mega]

Chuck D, Snow, Vanilla Ice.

You're luck I'm not the kind of guy to neg rep but I would neg rep you every day I could until freeones crashed for putting Chuck D in the same sentence with those other two.:crash: