Bugsmoran's Opinion. The Real 20 Greatest Emcees of all Time: Unbiased Edition

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1. Rakim aka The God aka Rakim Allah



The Greatest lyricist of all time...
Not only did he change the game Lyrically he also changed the way Rappers Flow.
Rakim brought that Street Hustler image into the game, cut all that smiling out in HipHop... The Rap Game Got Real When Rakim Came in the Game!







2. Tupac



Nobody made you Feel it like Pac did... The emotion he put into his raps made him great.
Took Reality Rap to another level.








3. Nas aka Nasty Nas aka Nas Escobar



one of the greatest storytellers, took lyrics to another level, great Concepts




4. Ice Cube




one of the greatest Storytellers, first to mix Politics with Gangsta music, mad Witty.


You hear Ice Cube's influence in everybody from Nas to Dead Prez.. Saigon to Killer Mike.






5. Scarface




The deepest Mc of all time, brought Jesus into Gangsta Rap, great Storyteller.

argubly the best Catalog ever... Diary, Untouchable, The Fix, Geto Boys - Ressurection and till Death Do Us Part albums...
alot of Classic albums!








6. Kool G Rap




one of the greatest Storytellers, mad lyrical.. introduced the rap game to Muti's wit Kane, first Eastcoast cat doing Gangsta Rap albums

nobody stayed more consistent Lyrically longer than Kool G Rap.







7. Biggie Smalls




One of if not the most complete MC on the mic... rhymes for girls, street raps, storytelling, battle raps.. he did it all at a very high level







8. Jay Z



He has the most bitten Flows...
This Dude switches his Flow up on every Song and Many of them been bit




9. Slick Rick




The Greatest Storyteller Ever...
Argubly the most Entertaining Mc on the mic.


The Godfather of Swag!



10. Redman aka Funk Doctor Spoc




Redman mixed off beat Humor with raw street cypher style Spittin.
in his prime... from 92 - 96 if you said Redman was the best Emcee alive i wouldnt argue.







11. Krs One



The Teacher... when Krs spit you listened and learned...

started the off beat conversational flow.

One of the most consistent Mc's.





12.Eminem




one of the few Emcee's that mastered the art of rhyming from a technical point of view.








13. Big Daddy Kane



Kane was the first Punchline Rapper i can remember... every other line had me hittin the rewind button. He was a beast at Flowing.



14. Lauryn Hill



Incredible Lyricist, Great Flow, Great Singer, One of the best live performers...








15. Treach



It seemed like he was trying to lose u with his Wordplay.... ill Rhyme Schemes
and his Flow was deadly....Treach is probably the Greatest Mc at Flowing.

Naughty by Nature was responsible for making Hooks important in HipHop.
After songs like O.P.P. and HipHop Hooray rappers had to step their Hook Game up.







16. Andre 3000



One of the greatest lyricist to come from the South.







17. LL Cool J



One of the most Consistent Mc's ever.
LL was the first putting songs for the Females and songs for the real HipHop heads on the same album.

One of the Greatest Battle Rappers on Wax!







18. Dmx


Took HipHop back to the streets.




19. Chuck D



One of the greatest Voices.
King of politically and socially conscious Rap Music.




20. Common



Dope Voice.
One of the greatest Lyricist.
One of the most Consistent Mc's
 

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Lauren Hill?

:camby:

If we gonna do the honorary/token female inclusion I'd go with Queen La.

dippy dippy balls dippy dippy balls when i beat em i beat em and now i'm hangin' with lou rawls!

:dead:

I always thought it was pause breh....dippy dippy balls gives that shyt a whole new meaning.

:lupe:
 

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LOL AT TREACH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

DMX!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


  1. LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLI(POJHIL?BGVCRTEZ<UXÔÒKK¯IUGFUHJKNM


**snorts 29seconds**

breh treach went had some go, and

for the longest had lookin for me a big red stallion like pepa, everytime I hear written on ya kitten i think of my aunt shay best friend toya.
 

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Busta Rhymes would murder both those fools and has the hardware and cultural viability to boot.


Naughty was one of the most half corny groups out.
 

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Treach did alot of writing for Queen Latifah....

He wrote her favorite song of mines... Latifah's Had it up to here


**snorts 29seconds**

Latifah was a gimmick anyway, Lyte >>>>>

hell Rage should be in the mix too, she was the only person on death row goin bar for bar with a young Kurupt, for every dope Kurupt verse back then, Rage either open it up or ended it, Rage gave Kurupt hell, its a reason why she open up the doggystyle album












not mention she broke snoop, ren kurupt and ice cube all on the same track, 3 of my favorites ever got ate by a female

 
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