Who's The Greatest Hip-Hop Artist to ever grace the Microphone??? - Page 2

PeachesEve · 08-29-2007, 09:55 PM

I definitely think its Tupac. He was so passionate and had a hard life. One was really able to see what he went by listening to his music. He was very poetic. RIP Tupac.

blaze92k · 08-30-2007, 04:34 AM

Nas or Rakim. Tupac wasn't a great lyricist, he was a great poet and his rap had the most feeling in it, but in terms of writing rhymes and actually rapping, Nas, Rakim and Eminem are all way above him in style and flow.

Warrior20 · 09-02-2007, 08:11 AM

You got alot of great hip hop artists so its hard to choose. You got tupac, biggie, nas, jayz, lil wayne and the list goes on and on. So its hard to say who's the best ever when you got so many great artists.

sodusme · 09-03-2007, 07:56 PM

Ummm I have to say Paul Wall. "This is ballin' at its best"!

**The Rock** · 09-07-2007, 10:17 AM

As far as people saying Tupac and Biggie as the greatest due to bias, I'd have to disagree. I think it's not so much as bias but more of lack of knowledge of other hip-hop artists outside these two individuals. I mean how many people of today would actually remember old school rap or hip-hop? Not that many.

I mean if you were to ask someone who GrandMaster Flash and the Furious Five were, most wouldn't be able to tell you unless you gave them a song. But because Tupac and Biggie were around when hip-hop was at its height, most remember them for their greatest albums. Tupac for "All Eyez On Me" and "The Don Killuminati: The 7 Day Theory aka Makaveli" and Biggie for "Life After Death."

But overall, I'd have to go with Pac over Biggie by a slight margin. He said what he felt. No fakin it. Things that he talked about were more than what most artists talk about today. He spoke of everything: the ghetto, the game, life, death, politics, fame, war, hate, violence, peace, love, etc.... He wrote down so many great lyrics.

And it's not just what he talked about, but the way he talked about things. He'd have the baddest beats sync with the messages he was getting across. And he had the perfect voice to go along with the beats. It's like he was telling you lots of stories through his music. It wasn't just about having the bitches, the money, and the power. He wanted you to see what he saw and understand why he talked about it.

So like I said, his music had these tight ass beats that would go along with the lyrics. A great example would be Hail Mary. With those bells ringing in the background and the dark and eerie tone made things click along with the lyrics. I mean add to that the meaning (keyword: meaning) behind the lyrics and you can understand why the song sounded the way it did. That was genius!!

How many artists you know today that can do all that? Write their own lyrics, talk about mulitple issues, have tight ass beats, have the voice to rap, and have meaning behind each song combined? Not that many. The one that comes the closest is Biggie. As for hip-hop artists who are still alive, I'd say Jay-Z and Eminem (during his Slim Shady and Marshall Mathers albums).

But if we were to go by artists of today, I'd go with Kanye in the Mid-West, Hova in the East (since he's back), Chamillionaire in the South, and I guess Snoop in the West (tho I like the Old School Snoop better. Back when he was still Snoop Doggy Dogg).

suntus666 · 09-07-2007, 02:54 PM

Best Hip-Hop comes from France. It's the group IAM. Jedi Mind Tricks is quite good, too.

16168892 · 09-09-2007, 06:25 AM

Tupac Shakur, Jay-Z, Pharell, Eminem

loopy2311 · 09-15-2007, 10:55 AM

ICE Cube, rest are all pretenders...

schoolrumble · **Who's the best -** 09-18-2007, 12:31 AM

Coming from New york but don't call me biased after you read what I have to say.

First of all if you consider record sales as a factor, then you don't know anything about hip hop. The worst rappers outsell the hottest rappers who are lyrical because kids by that crap becaue they hear it on the radio. They want to hear a hot beat and a hot hook and don't care anything about lyrics. Everything time you hear someone spit a hot line, it's always some form the past. Ex:Biggie,PUN,Big L, Wu Tang, Jay Z, Chino xl,Rakim, Tribe, Talib Kawli,beanie, Jadakiss and nas.
When has anybody today spit a hot line. That south shit ain't lyrical, its rap POP. You got 10 year old kids sing that crap.

Name one rapper other than T.I who could spit in the south. Lil wayne is garbage. Nothing against the south, that ain't real hip hop, they got industry dudes manufactering hip hop today, and puffy started that bullshit. Eveything is pop.

Record sales, Then 50 cents should be the hottest rapper ever.LOL. I grew up with rap, and half this dudes don't nothing. Rap is the new form of candy pop, because it sells. Look who buys that crap, little kids.

Hottest rappers are based on how they can ride a beat,lyrics, and innovation.

My top dead or live in no order:
Pac-passion
Biggie-Lyrical
Big L-freesyle killer
Nas-lyricist
Jay Z-for being consistent
Talieb Kawli-for conscience rap and and not being a follower.
Wu-tang-real ny shit.
emniem-lyrically not to many people can fuck with him.
KRS-ONE
rumble out.

**wreckthashop** · 06:49 AM

	Quote:			Originally Posted by schoolrumble
	Name one rapper other than T.I who could spit in the south

Chamillionaire & Ludacris.............and if you don't reconize that you don't understand Hip-Hop.