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

[Harry B]

Are u retarded, Biggie and Jay, ESPECIALLY JAY, were heavily influenced by Nas

How was Biggie influenced by Nas?

Jay too? How? Their styles is like night and day.
The only influence going on is Pac influencing Big and Nas, and Big influencing Jay.

Wu-tang said Biggie was gonna swagger jacking people and that he would swagger jack Nas, which obviously never happened.


If anything Big influenced Nas as well with Nastradamus, Hate me now and those tracks.

 

[Long Live The Kane]

Regardless of how I or anybody sees it personally, that's how it's going down in history. ..With the exception of whether we (shamefully) let them put em in nas' spot or not. ..With all due allowances and respect for legends before and after those 4, mid-90's mythology rules rap

 

[Budda]

I can't believe people are saying Nas ain't influential on a goddamn Hip Hop forum smh.

 

[Jayson_bourn]

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

I just laughed out loud at the picture on the bottom right....That shouldn't be a real pic..but I know that it is.

 

[Budda]

How was Biggie influenced by Nas?

Jay too? How? Their styles is like night and day.
The only influence going on is Pac influencing Big and Nas, and Big influencing Jay.

Wu-tang said Biggie was gonna swagger jacking people and that he would swagger jack Nas, which obviously never happened.


If anything Big influenced Nas as well with Nastradamus, Hate me now and those tracks.

Of course he was influenced by him you fool, thats why he sampled him on his first album and couldn't keep his name out of his mouth, why he went on to beef with him etc etc.

The funny thing is, Jay would probably laugh at you for saying he wasn't influenced by Nas.

 

[blackslash]

More like in 2001 he made a big impact with Stillmatic.

Even after he has earned praise for his newest work, evolving with his music and still staying in the top tier of MCs after 20 some odd years.

Jay's music has fallen off bad in recent years

Ur changing the credentials

First u say its about whos making events with they releases now ur saying its about ur personal opinion on theri quality of music stick to an argument or shut up b

Nas' works after illmatic were never events on the level of Jay's releases

at all b

 

[Budda]

Also a shame to see Rakim not being mentioned more, or BDK, these guys influenced a whole generation of rappers, yet because they didn't get no Vogue covers like Kanye they ain't being mentioned.

First thing we need to do is seperate pop culture from rap culture, because in our culture the likes of Nas, Rakim are revered.

Saying Nas isn't influential is akin to saying The Smiths weren't influential, just because they didn't sell a tonne of records in comparison to some of their peers, yet when you ask a rock band now who is their favourite band,you can bet your life on it that they will mention them most probably.

 

[Harry B]

Of course he was influenced by him you fool, thats why he sampled him on his first album and couldn't keep his name out of his mouth, why he went on to beef with him etc etc.

The funny thing is, Jay would probably laugh at you for saying he wasn't influenced by Nas.

The song he sampled sounds nothing like Jay's song, he also sampled Snoop.. Was he influenced by Snoop as well? Did D'Evils sound like Gin n Juice? Did he beef with Snoop? And Jay is not a beatmaker, he's a rapper who raps on shyt other people make.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spurious_relationship
you airhead.

 

[smARTmouf]

That's a hard one...

we need someone at least representing each big era...

 

[Budda]

The song he sampled sounds nothing like Jay's song, he also sampled Snoop.. Was he influenced by Snoop as well? Did D'Evils sound like Gin n Juice? Did he beef with Snoop?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spurious_relationship
you airhead.

Lmao donut, did he ask Snoop to be in the video?

Was he saying argue whos the best Jay Biggie or Snoop?

Did he diss Snoop, in what would culminate in the biggest battle in rap?
Did he stop rapping like the fuschnickens when he heard Doggystyle?

'Illmatic was so ahead, we thought we were all dead'

 

[TLR Is Mental Poison]

That's a hard one...

we need someone at least representing each big era...

Who would represent this era...

Kanye in Kim Kardashian's makeup....

 

[the cac mamba]

drake should be there after his next album i dont care what nobody say

one of the worst posts in coli history

 

[smARTmouf]

Who would represent this era...

Kanye in Kim Kardashian's makeup....

This era isn't really big though IMO...

such a hard debate, because worthy artist would be left off...

 

[H.I.M.]

How was Biggie influenced by Nas?

Jay too? How? Their styles is like night and day.

Nas being an influence on the styles Big & Jay ranks up there with some of the biggest revisionist myths ever parroted on hip-hop message boards.

Big CLEARLY was the one responsible for birthing Jay's style. And the stylistic similarities that Big/Jay have to Nas are almost non-existant.

Big himself had an wholly original & unique style of rap to me. But the CONTENT within his raps were clearly influenced by Face, Cube, Dre & Snoop.

The only influence going on is Pac influencing Big

Can't co-sign this. But all i know is, Scarface is the architect of that gritty, street reality rap that all of them mid-90's NY rappers suddenly started incorporating into their music... including Pac. Scarface was a much more influential & innovative rapper than Nas in reality.

 

[Bickin Back Being Bool]

Who would represent this era...

Kanye in Kim Kardashian's makeup....

of course kanye, who else dumbass?