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

[OG Talk]

Can't decide if this is a troll post, but this question is on the right track. Mount Rushmore was established in the 1920's, it's dated and happened to come before some REALLY big events in American history. To roughly equate that with rap's historical perspective.. Jay Z and Nas would both have to be taken off the list to make room for some older artists, ones that influenced Jay and Nas themselves. Names like Kanye and Wayne, while huge in their own respect, have no place on a depiction of rap's founding architects.

Yeah my point is just like with the NBA this whole argument is nonsensical and based off whoever is arguing their points choses it to be based on...

The criteria can't be set because the intent of Mt Rushmore was never as deep as people try to make it out to be..

 

[Harry B]

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.




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.

When I said Pac influenced Big I'm basically only referring to shyt as "swag". Big was on that gritty swag but transformed into that lavish shyt which a lot of people attribute to Pac. But it could be the natural transition lead by his net worth vastly increasing.

 

[treezee]

I have all the Makaveli lost tapes and the beats are not good. When pac has a concept to rap about though, hes great. I dont like hearing ANYONE freestyle rap about nothing.

Fixed

 

[NoHalfWay]

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

If I keep at this we still won't get anywhere

 

[Mr. Somebody]

Fixed

I like hearing some people rap about nothing when it has imagination. Pacs freestyles didnt have imagination.

 

[thekidvoodoo]

Jay's position in the game shouldn't even be a question. He was a peer to Pac and Biggie, and a rival to Nas. He has consistently been near the top of the game across nearly 3 decades (late 90's, the aughts, and whatever the hell they calling this time). He's definitely rapping flabby now because he thinks his presence is a gift, but every now and then he hits you with a "Devil is Lie" or "We Made It" and reminds you who he is.

I'm on my Marlo Stanfield though, so I'm coming for em.

 

[Harry B]

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'

Nas is someone he respects, a long with Eminem, 3 stacks, Scarface and many other people.
People in Brooklyn were talking about Nas, Jay and Big in 96-97, not Snoop Dogg.

Nas was a nice NY rapper who was sampled in a Jay song. He was releasing a single and asked if they would collaborate, do you know how many people Jay has collaborated you airhead?

He sampled prodigy and dissed him as well, and gave him mad props (for their 2nd and 3rd album) as of lately.. Did Prodigy influence him as well?



Just cause you fukk with someone musically doesn't mean that they influenced your rap style.
Kendrick Lamar's favorite rapper is Jay-z, does he sound anything like him?





He should've dissed Michael Jackson too cause, Jackson influenced him.. fukking Oppenheimer here.

 

[Bickin Back Being Bool]

you don't have to explain jay z place on that mountain, if anything , he's the only deserving on there

big n pac died so we wouldnt know what could've been, and Nas is pretty much irrelevent these days, great lyrically, but irrelenvent

 

[H.I.M.]

When I said Pac influenced Big I'm basically only referring to shyt as "swag". Big was on that gritty swag but transformed into that lavish shyt which a lot of people attribute to Pac. But it could be the natural transition lead by his net worth vastly increasing.

I don't recall Pac being on some "extravagant lifestyle playa type shyt" at the time Ready to Die was recorded & released... his music was on some dark shyt and centered around street/life reality type topics. I don't think you can attribute Big's "swag" to Pac. Seemed more Big Daddy Kane-ish to me

 

[Budda]

Nas was a nice ny rapper, lmao.

He was called the 2nd coming of Rakim, you know how big of a statement that is?

Gtfoh Harryonce.

 

[NoHalfWay]

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.

Who was the one dude that inspired Pac to write Me & My Girlfriend tho?

 

[Ashtrey]

"Im just a chi-town nikka with a Nas flow" - Kanye
Drake's main influence for Thank Me Later was Nas' It Was Written
J Cole sucked Nas dikk on record
Wayne dikkriding Nas to get him on C4

yeah Nas aint influencing none of these new rappers

 

[USSInsiders]

Get that tranny loving fat faced Piggie fakkit off of my mt. rushmore. If that mountain erupted it would erupt white colored magma in the form of cum through Gay-Z's mouth and nostrils since he's such a dikkriding fakkit who loves the attention.

My Mt. Rushmore: The Braided GOAT, AZ, Jada, Malice

 

[NkrumahWasRight Is Wrong]

felt like posting this picture..but id have to go with krs one, rev run, rakim and big daddy kane if being strict on comparisons to mt rushmore (architects etc)

otherwise id probably go with jay (), nas, 2pac, rza and biggie (yeah i put 5..fukk it)

 

[SubLyminalz]

you don't have to explain jay z place on that mountain, if anything , he's the only deserving on there

big n pac died so we wouldnt know what could've been, and Nas is pretty much irrelevent these days, great lyrically, but irrelenvent

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