Mt. Rushmore of Rap is Jayz, 2pac, Nas, and Biggie..(poll included)

[director_of_bands]

Drake can have his face on Care Bear Mountain

This is the Mt. Rushmore of RAP, not this

New school Mt Rushmore should be made of ice cream for a long list of reasons

 

[Wacky D]

alot of era-bias and ignorance in this thread.

as expected.

 

[King Poetic]

I don't see Cube on it so this shyt is null

 

[Thegospel]

Biggie def shouldn't be on this shyt. I'm not the biggest nas fan but I don't have an issue with him being there. Biggie? Nahhhhhh jay/PAC are no brainers / and I hate jay.

 

[Figdcotton]

yall lames go out yall way to discredit drake but he shyts on most of your favorite rappers

But jay my fav rapper though

 

[ISO]

are y'all Jay stans talking about Nas is not influential, Nas is top tier in terms of influence in hip hop history

Nas is the arguably most widely respected hip hop artist in history, his contemporaries from this era and past eras all give him props as well as those who came before him. No influence are you fukking kidding me?

"I used to listen to Nas back in the days, it was like, ‘Oh shyt! He murdered that.’ That forced me to get my pen game up. . .The whole Illmatic album forced you to go ahead and do shyt . . .It was inspiration."
-Ghostface Killah

"A]round the time Nas didIllmatic, it made me wanna step my game up. . .He's one of the reasons I did go off into storytelling because his pictures were so vivid. When he displayed his rhyme schemes and his word play and his songs, it made me wanna create visual pictures as well."
-Elzhi

"I [got into] Illmatic when I was 14, 15. I didn’t get onto to it till late, but when I did, that's probably the only thing I listened to for six months to a year...After I got heavy on Illmatic, I put out Sleeping In Class (2010). That's when I really tried to sharpen my skills and get better.”
-Casie Veggies

"1995, eleven years from the day/I'm in the record shop with choices to make Illmatic on the top shelf, The Chronic on the left, homie/Wanna cop both but only got a twenty on me/So fukk it, I stole both, spent the twenty on a dub-sack/Ripped the package of Illmatic and bumped that/For my nikkas it was too complex when Nas rhymed/I was the only Compton nikka with a New York State of Mind"
-The Game

Kendrick's biggest influences are Wayne, DMX, Eminem, Pac, Nas, Prodigy, Dre, Snoop and Kurupt.
"Illmatic? For people to even put my album in the light of that, is an accomplishment. It's crazy to even be mentioned with it but it's scary at the same time . . .That era – I wanna say the age range now would be 30, 30 to 40 – they can recognize this was the album. Illmatic’s the album for the ’90s era when I was growing up. . .it's just a weird feeling to be in that same type of light, ‘cus it takes a whole lot of responsibility to keep that up in the long run and longevity, and that's something I don’t have yet…so Illmatic will always be #1.”
-Kendrick Lamar

Jay had Illmatic on bootleg and use to sell his demos out his car blasting the album

Illmatic was a big influence on Mobb Deep in their recording of The Infamous.


"While working as a journalist for The Source in 1994, Hampton covered three court cases involving Tupac. Around this time, she received an advance-copy of Illmatic and immediately dubbed a cassette version for Tupac, who became "an instant convert" of the album. The next day, she writes, Tupac "arrived in his assigned courtroom blasting Illmatic so loudly that the bailiff yelled at him to turn it off before the judge took his seat on the bench." In her essay, Hampton implies that Nas' lyricism might have influenced Tupac's acclaimed album, Me Against The World, which was recorded that same year"

Pac wrote Me & My Girlfriend based on I Gave You Power, Pac was a Nas fan despite the short beef.

Did y'all not see the acceptance speech where Eminem says he was influence by Nas, G-Rap, Pac, BIG and others

Even Drake claims IWW as an influence for Thank Me Later flipping his line on Miss Me "Like Nas, who am I to disagree" and Nothing Was The Same looks a lot like IWW and Illmatic's covers on the regular and deluxe editions respectively.

"Nas was somebody that I used to listen to his raps and never understood how he did it. I always wanted to understand how he painted those pictures and his bar structure. I went back and really studied Nas and André 3000 and then came back with this album"
-Drake
Nikka name a rapper Nas ain't influenced

 

[Dafunkdoc_Unlimited]

Melle Mel, KRS-One, Kool Moe Dee and Rakim.
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[The_Third_Man]

Biggie died before the release of his 2nd album. Think about that for a minute.
HIS SECOND ALBUM.

"But but but Jay-z 9th album wasn't good!" "but but But Nas ain't relevant in 2014" Biggie died in 97 you retarded piece of shyt

I'd take Kendrick Lamar before him

 

[Gotright]

What the Mt Rushmore of trap music

 

[Julius Skrrvin]

Shyt is crazy to even do that because hip hop is so massive and like a few heads have said, every person is going to have a different list depending on age, region, or just the hip hop style they love. As an 86 baby, I can't fully speak on their impact the way I want to,but I can't fathom doing something like this without Rakim, KRS One, Kane or Marley Marl and Grandmaster Flash. Just like I can't imagine doing it without Nas, Jay, Big or Pac. And then it comes down to criteria...the presidents who are on mt rushmore are there because they did great things for the country. We are going to base it off of whether we fukk with a rapper's music, or their style, or if they're relevant but all of that is subjective. It's just too many factors for this to hold weight

For sure. I voted yes, but only because the poll had Jay hate

If we're gonna keep it real, then a "mount rushmore" should be filled with originators and founding fathers. Truth be told, none of the guys in there are truly originators like that. I think people like:

Rakim
KRS One
Flash
Marl
Kool G Rap
Kane
Mel

Are all the the type of people that belong on there. And I was born in the year 1990.

 

[Taadow]

Why am I not seeing Ja Rule on any of these lists?

 

[H.I.M.]

What the Mt Rushmore of trap music

T.I., Jeezy, Gucci... and Quavo

 

[BUSINESS AS USUAL]

no pac hes most overrated rapper ever..loved his image and personality and a few of his songs but overall idgaf if he has 100000 songs like 98% of were trash..his music sucked..i tryed to make a best of pac for my ipod and ended up with like 15 songs thats not mt rushmore status..his production n beat selection were horrid

 

[BUSINESS AS USUAL]

50 gotta be up there his influence and run were impeccable

 

[Techniec]

the God Makaveli was a Nas fan, how can I be not?