Complex: 50 Best New York Rappers of All-Time

[JYoung24]

I thought writing your own shyt was important

You talking about Nicki?

 

[JYoung24]

Like I said before if u playing in the nba and ain’t been an all star in 20 years you not a goat. Nas last 20 years is Udonis Haslem

He around
But ain’t around
Know what I’m saying

He's made classics in the last 20 years and he has plat and gold albums in the last 20 years he ain't no udonis haslem shyt he made more classics then Jay in the last 20 years

 

[Cladyclad]

He's made classics in the last 20 years and he has plat and gold albums in the last 20 years he ain't no udonis haslem shyt he made more classics then Jay in the last 20 years

y’all Nas Stan’s live in a fantasy world with rainbows and pissy Queensbridge bedsheets

 

[JYoung24]

y’all Nas Stan’s live in a fantasy world with rainbows and pissy Queensbridge bedsheets

It's no fantasy world it's facts and I'm not even from queens I'm from jersey lol

 

[Cladyclad]

It's no fantasy world it's facts and I'm not even from queens I'm from jersey lol

Wtf where u live have to do with anything dweeb

the last time nas had a plat album

shaq and Kobe was on the lakers

 

[Houston911]

Ice spice on the list is so disrespectful

 

[murksiderock]

I don’t know if you’re trolling or you’re being dead serious with that said this literally is one of the most ridiculous statements I’ve seen in a while

So less again, evaluate it and take biggie out of the equation

So you’re basically telling me that Nas and Jay-Z‘s body of work over the past two decades is just as relevant as their body of work from the mid 90s to the early 2000s = that is insane … at the end of the day. These two will be remembered by their body of work during the pinnacle of hip-hop not the hip-hop is dead era
That’s like saying Madonna whom was the biggest female star on the planet in her heyday during the early 80s, and as her run came to end the damn near 15 albums she created thereafter over 3 decades/currently cements her legacy

Again, I asked you are you trolling or are you being dead serious?

Jay and Nas overall body of work is greater than Big's 3-year run, yes. What's confusing about this?

Nas is definitely over jayz too

Negative...

At the end of the day nikkax just have to accept Big’s 2-3 years was just more resounding than anything that came out of NYC outside of what Jay accomplished over time. It was storybook

Nah man, Nas and Cool J have compelling cases over Big. I have Nas over Big. LL I'm a coin flip but that man's work is so underrated, nikkas giving Big the automatic over LL is wack...

Nah, we don't have to accept that. People need to stop acting like it's disrespectful to lower the ranking of dead artists.

Look how high Pun is. He only had one notable album. Second album wasn't good but people would lose their mind if anyone said that out loud. Is he one of the best lyricists? Absolutely but his catalog obviously can't stand up to his peers. I say the same for Big L who's one of my favorites.

Ready to Die vs Illmatic or IWW vs Life After Death? People can edge this either way. It's a close battle and no one can say it's a landslide. If it's that close but that's all Big has as far as albums how can he be over Nas who is still adding to his catalog and rapping at a high level?

Big is holding his spot largely due to nostalgia and being deceased. Nas been surpassed him.

!!! × !!

I understand you point but nas albums don’t really hit like that outside his fanbase. Ilmatic the one. But that appeals to a way more older crowd. I know this hurt but Nas don’t got an album the general hip hop crowd care about like that. And I’m not talking no teens and 20 year olds. His own fanbase made this be the reason. Always complaining and shyt. All that complaining lessen all his albums except one.

Nah Nas has some timeless music. He not over Jay but I think he's pretty comfortably the second greatest rapper ever...

 

[GoFlipAPack]

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Top 10
1) Jay-Z
2) Biggie
3) Nas
4) Rakim
5) LL Cool J
6) 50 Cent
7) Nicki Minaj
8) DMX
9) Busta Rhymes
10) KRS-One

Nicki over Kiss?

 

[ThaBronxBully]

Lists Are Lists And It’s Senseless To Argue But Putting Ice Spice In It Is Straight Nuts

 

[spliz]

now I’m a bit confused because I believe in the other thread a while ago, it came out that you was basically in your mid 30s

nikka I’m damn near 40. Lol

 

[Pop123]

Jayz over Nas is fine…Nas over Jayz is fine, I ain’t trippin either way…but Biggie being over Nas and all them other guys he is over is really ridiculous. Like when does logic enter the room and rote responses exit?

 

[Devil Plisken…CMS]

Negative...

Nah man, Nas and Cool J have compelling cases over Big. I have Nas over Big. LL I'm a coin flip but that man's work is so underrated, nikkas giving Big the automatic over LL is wack...

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Nah Nas has some timeless music. He not over Jay but I think he's pretty comfortably the second greatest rapper ever...

Everybody can only go off what they saw. When Big was alive who was considered bigger in NYC? Nobody

LL was the first nikka to be the face of rap for multiple years…Hit after Hit. When BIG came around who was considered the man in the city? You know the answer

Nas is an amazing rapper that damn near fell into obscurity for over a decade

BIG, like Jigga, was a hitmaker. Nas wasn’t a thing musically from like 04-??? During his heyday you heard this nikkax music and his features…sort of like you do now with Kendrick

Nas disappeared from the mainstream…as a mainstream artist. I’m not giving nikkax credit for just rapping in a corner and not mattering anymore

We all have opinions but NYC is BIG’s town. When Kiss dropped The Who Shot Ya instrumental you heard what The Garden did friend…

 

[Cladyclad]

Jay and Nas overall body of work is greater than Big's 3-year run, yes. What's confusing about this?

Negative...

Nah man, Nas and Cool J have compelling cases over Big. I have Nas over Big. LL I'm a coin flip but that man's work is so underrated, nikkas giving Big the automatic over LL is wack...

!!! × !!

Nah Nas had some timeless music. He not over Jay but I think he's pretty comfortably the second greatest rapper ever...

Yeah 20 years ago

 

[Devil Plisken…CMS]

Hold the phone…
BIG died in 97
The last song Nas put out people remember like that came out in like 03…
We’re in 2023

But you nikkax talking about body of work???

 

[Knucklehead]

Jayz over Nas is fine…Nas over Jayz is fine, I ain’t trippin either way…but Biggie being over Nas and all them other guys he is over is really ridiculous. Like when does logic enter the room and rote responses exit?

It’s not ridiculous.
BIGs songs are enormously more iconic than Nas songs.
Go to any hip-hop show, sporting event anywhere they play music and you’re way more likely to hear a BIG song.
Go to fights see how many people come out to BIG songs.
Nas has 5 albums in the past 2 years and BIG Greatest Hits outstreams all 5 combined by a wide margin every week.