Meccapolis Top 100 New York Rappers List

[Peak]

Erick Sermon over Canibus and Smoothe is nonsense but it's whatever.

 

[Budda]

NORE should be honored he is on the list at all.

Nah don’t do that Nore was a top rapper of the 90’s people need to understand is more than just multislabic rhyming and complex schemes that make a good rapper.

You won’t find a wittier funnier rapper than Nore, who could still be raw and guttter, when you think of the 90’s Nore and Capone are two acts who you can automatically use as a representation.

And Nore had that delivery too that was just different from anyone outside queens, his style of rhyming Prodigy and Nas both did but I think Tragedy would be the influence there.


At age eight, money come first, snatch purse
Go to church, yo that's not me, mami I'm cursed

Like bars like this are simple but the way he drops it and the comedic element makes it a classic, there aren’t many rappers like Nore people need to respect his pen.

 

[Awesome Wells]

This is about MCs. Not about classic songs. That was my whole point. There is a long list of Not nice MCs with classic records.

There is an even longer list of incredible MCs with no classic songs/albums.

I thought the whole theme was to highlight THOSE MCs. OP already did the classic albums.

If you heard AG accapella or freestyle you'd be impressed?

He's the only one rapping on the track, lol. That's a classic!

Dude was one of the nicest in the city from '91-'96. You couldn't go to Harlem and not hear "Fat Pockets", "Party Groove" or "Soul Clap". AG is a certified legend. Lyrically, he was no joke back then. I used to be in Patterson Projects with him, GD's and the other OG's and he would be out there freestyling saying some of the illest sh*t.



Come on, bro! You aint f*ck with none of these joints?!?

 

[ISO]

Don ahead of a lot of rappers already mentioned off this freestyle alone.





some of them have nothing that could compete with that on an MC tip.

Yup, that’s why I’m surprised Envy Caine was ranked over him

He don’t have a classic NYC moment like that and those collabs with A boogie are straight NYC classics

 

[ISO]

Nah don’t do that Nore was a top rapper of the 90’s people need to understand is more than just multislabic rhyming and complex schemes that make a good rapper.

You won’t find a wittier funnier rapper than Nore, who could still be raw and guttter, when you think of the 90’s Nore and Capone are two acts who you can automatically use as a representation.

And Nore had that delivery too that was just different from anyone outside queens, his style of rhyming Prodigy and Nas both did but I think Tragedy would be the influence there.


At age eight, money come first, snatch purse
Go to church, yo that's not me, mami I'm cursed

Like bars like this are simple but the way he drops it and the comedic element makes it a classic, there aren’t many rappers like Nore people need to respect his pen.

 

[Peak]

Nah don’t do that Nore was a top rapper of the 90’s people need to understand is more than just multislabic rhyming and complex schemes that make a good rapper.

You won’t find a wittier funnier rapper than Nore, who could still be raw and guttter, when you think of the 90’s Nore and Capone are two acts who you can automatically use as a representation.

And Nore had that delivery too that was just different from anyone outside queens, his style of rhyming Prodigy and Nas both did but I think Tragedy would be the influence there.


At age eight, money come first, snatch purse
Go to church, yo that's not me, mami I'm cursed

Like bars like this are simple but the way he drops it and the comedic element makes it a classic, there aren’t many rappers like Nore people need to respect his pen.

I mean I fukked with Nore. War Report was classic and NORE was dope. But he was no where near a top rapper. He got outshined by every guest spot on NORE (Spliffstar had a better verse than him), and his bars without Tragedy's pen were remedial at best.

 

[L. Deezy]

Ain't no hope for this culture. We cooked AF.

Unreal..what Im seeing

 

[ISO]

A Boogie with the Hoodie has no place on this list (and I am a fan of dude been a fan for YEARS). There are way too many dope rappers who supersede him as far as this list is concerned

bullshyt breh A boogie is the highest selling male NYC rapper of his generation and has sons in the game the man has been massively successful

A Boogie wit da Hoodie discography - Wikipedia

en.m.wikipedia.org

Success is part of the criteria and if you want to knock him for skills nah fukk that what he does take skills weaving in and out of voices and flows, singing, and rapping, coming up with hooks and the right catchy shyt, on paper his shyt is no worse than the basic shyt some golden age rappers were spitting and he’s doing melodies while rapping it

If anything he should be higher random lyrical mixtape rapper didn’t have the city in the palm of his hand like Boogie did when he came out

 

[Devil Plisken…CMS]

Nah don’t do that Nore was a top rapper of the 90’s people need to understand is more than just multislabic rhyming and complex schemes that make a good rapper.

You won’t find a wittier funnier rapper than Nore, who could still be raw and guttter, when you think of the 90’s Nore and Capone are two acts who you can automatically use as a representation.

And Nore had that delivery too that was just different from anyone outside queens, his style of rhyming Prodigy and Nas both did but I think Tragedy would be the influence there.


At age eight, money come first, snatch purse
Go to church, yo that's not me, mami I'm cursed

Like bars like this are simple but the way he drops it and the comedic element makes it a classic, there aren’t many rappers like Nore people need to respect his pen.

Nore’s respect comes from being an underdog that was a part of a great duo debut and went on to be a charismatic unlikely hit maker

 

[Devil Plisken…CMS]

bullshyt breh A boogie is the highest selling male NYC rapper of his generation and has sons in the game the man has been massively successful

A Boogie wit da Hoodie discography - Wikipedia

en.m.wikipedia.org

Success is part of the criteria and if you want to knock him for skills nah fukk that what he does take skills weaving in and out of voices and flows, singing, and rapping, coming up with hooks and the right catchy shyt, on paper his shyt is no worse than the basic shyt some golden age rappers were spitting and he’s doing melodies while rapping it

If anything he should be higher random lyrical mixtape rapper didn’t have the city in the palm of his hand like Boogie did when he came out

Success & failure HAS TO BE factored into these lists because the majority of the top of most people’s list will feature commercially successful nikkax anyhow lol

 

[DOSDUMUNI]

Dude, that's literally their first single. LOL!! And "Soul Clap" is a CLASSIC!!

Quote them bars on Goodfellas and the other joints on Runaway Slave. Lord Finesse and Method Man both called A.G. their inspiration to rap. Other legends have too.

First you didn't know who Mantronix was, now this. You're killing me, fam.

His verse on “Speak Ya Peace” by Lord Finesse is a classic verse.

 

[mobbinfms]

Can’t wait to see where Havoc and Big Noyd end up on this list.

 

[ISO]

Man stop playing. This is his verse.

"The Giant is greater, so step back
I know you were told, black, about the Soul Clap
And I'ma keep climbin, G
With beats that's fat
'Cause that's Showbiz and Diamond D
Don't believe all the hearsay
'Cause I'ma get the airplay
While the fans say "Yeah 'Dre!"
And I'm on the lyrical tip
For you to whip the Giant, that'll be a Miracle Whip
So everybody crowd around
And let's all get down
To the Soul Clap sound
So pump your firsts, here we go
Showbiz and A.G., so act like you know
A combination of the new and the old rap
Me, Showbiz, and Diamond D, yeah, we got the Soul Clap"


That songwriting is trash. And breh has 0 charisma on the mic with a terrible voice. He got no flow. Not a single thing about AG is original. Get the fukk outta here.


He's an off brand Eric sermon on the mic at best.

Pop Smoke was doper in the Brooklyn drill rap style than AG was in the golden age boom bap style

Plus Pop was legit vocally gifted

And again he had the city in the palm of his hand has to count for something

 

[It's_Nade]

whats the criteria?

 

[L. Deezy]

Max B is one of the most influential rappers of the last 20 years are you seriously comparing him to Tony Yayo?

Influential to whooooooo?

Yall just some Dip fans who hopped on this nygga.