Top 10 Emcee's

Since we couldn't do the "Jay" post, lets make this a bit more general.

THE GOATS:

• Big

• Jay

• Rick (not Rawse, boy!)

• Rakim

• Tip (not TIP, boy!)

• Ghost

• Kane

• Thought

• Nas

• 3000

Honorable Mention: Busta, Ye, Consequence, Common, Chris, Rae, GZA, Fab, Banks, Bun, Prodigy, TI, Twista, Mos, Kweli. Wayne needs needs another crazy album to convince me.

how come no one show love for my EMinem, now he is an emcee

UR AN IDIOT TONY........
UR LIST.................. EPIC FAILURE



where's 2PAC????
where's Scarface???
where's 8ball and MJG??
where's BunB or sweet James????


PAC and BIGGIE (1a- 1b).........PERIOD

I said to myself when I first saw the list, the non mention of Face alone in the Top 5, didn't even warrant a response.


No brainer as Scarface, a Top 5 true lyricist . All Hip Hop Historians know that...even monthy cited resources such as Source, XXL & Old School "Rap Pages," have covered this.

~Goodz~

let us not forget .... CUBE, SNOOP (DEATH ROW- SNOOP), maybe QUICK.......
LL (love songs LL)

BUT...
rick ross and TIP- might/ PROBABLY not make the list of 5 top in the south!!!
i jam them both.... but please!!!!

and thought (who is that kat)


but the omission of PAC....FAILURE!!!

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how come no one show love for my Eminem, now he is an emcee

Em SHOULD be in Honorable Mentions, I was thinking of all this real quick on the fly at work. I kept thinking I knew I forgot someone, that's my bad my dude.

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UR AN IDIOT TONY........
UR LIST.................. EPIC FAILURE

where's 2PAC????
where's Scarface???
where's 8ball and MJG??
where's BunB or sweet James????

PAC and BIGGIE (1a- 1b).........PERIOD

Okay Nasty you must've forgotten your bifocals, Bun is up there and was ALWAYS nicer than C. As far as your beloved Pac, me and your cousin just had another war about that, go read it. Scarface and L are legends and of course nice, but I wouldn't put him up that high on ALMIGHTY'S list. I love Ball & G, but close but no cigar as well.

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I said to myself when I first saw the list, the non mention of Face alone in the Top 5, didn't even warrant a response.

No brainer as Scarface, a Top 5 true lyricist . All Hip Hop Historians know that...even monthy cited resources such as Source, XXL & Old School "Rap Pages," have covered this.

For the hundreth time Good, I don't worry about what critics say, I form my own personal opinion. If I just threw Face and Pac on my list to be satisfy Rap Pages and XXL, I wouldn't be a man.

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let us not forget .... CUBE, SNOOP (DEATH ROW- SNOOP), maybe QUICK.......
LL (love songs LL)

BUT...
rick ross and TIP- might/ PROBABLY not make the list of 5 top in the south!!!
i jam them both.... but please!!!!

and thought (who is that kat)

but the omission of PAC....FAILURE!!!

Cube's cool, but not up on my list. Snoop was an interesting one, he was raw on Doggystyle and a while after that, but once he went to No Limit he's never been quite the same emcee. Ross like Wayne, needs to show me a bit more, he's NOT on my list either, get you eyes checked Nasty! As far as Thought I'm talking about Black Thought from the Roots, one of the illest most underrated emcees you'll hear. Their catalog should be required listening if you've never heard of them.


Now just because you don't see a dude on my list doesn't mean I'm not a fan or don't listen to or admire dude. It just means he's not someone I keep in constant rotation and whose skills don't totally amaze me. I made about 25 picks altogether, EVERYONE can't make it. I didn't make this post to start contoversy or or to say it's the end all be all, I make it to get all the Hip Hop fans opinions here. Instead we got the Drank Brothers on here talking reckless as usual. Rather than having a collective discussion, they're bashing what TONY listens to versus what THEY listen to. If you disagree, bring it to me respectfully like LT did. Apprently I'm an idiot and they can't post they're own picks because they disagree with me. Y'all may have just killed this post, you should know better being the moderator here Goodell.

i will admit... i read ur list wrong...
Tip =QTip and Rick = Slick RIck....

HOWEVER,,,
ur an IDIOT b/c u left PAC off on ur list...
all the others "ur correct" are debateable.....
but if dont care if ur a PAC fan or Biggie fan... u gotta have them both on ur list...

Put it to u like this... had i did a list and left BIGGIE off,, what would u have said??????
i respect ur list....... but the omission of PAC....
FAILURE!!!!!!!!

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i will admit... i read ur list wrong...
Tip =QTip and Rick = Slick RIck....

Rick (not Rawse, boy!)
Tip (not TIP, boy!)

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HOWEVER,,,
ur an IDIOT b/c u left PAC off on ur list...
all the others "ur correct" are debateable.....
but if dont care if ur a PAC fan or Biggie fan... u gotta have them both on ur list...

And that's what I'm talking about right there, I don't GOTTA do SH*T my dude! And take it easy over there with the mouth too!

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Put it to u like this... had i did a list and left BIGGIE off,, what would u have said??????
i respect ur list....... but the omission of PAC....
FAILURE!!!!!!!!

If you left Big off the list I'm not gonna bug cause YOU don't think he's nice. I would however want an explanation. The kind of explanation I already gave to your cousin in the last post as did he on why he doesnt think Jay deserves the crown. FALL BACK NASTY...

get yo mind right!!!!

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get yo mind right!!!!

"Yeah Pac was the best of all time Nasty, he was sooo gangster, Makaveli was real man, holy sh*t!" Happy??
Your coming off REAL soft right about now Nasty, your disappointing me my dude, MAN-UP!!!

stoP IT!!!!

this again so i am going to lay it down again
tony, BIG L

TONY BIG L is #1
how you gonna forget the man i thought that we all talked about this but we can do it all again thats cool with me. i like tony list but he did leave some ppl out for sure like
KRS-ONE
freddie the foxxx
afu-ra
G.U.R.U.
method man
M.O.P. (lil fame & billy dazz)
reawkon

i think you have to put 2pac on there because of will to achive in the art. i myself am not really a pac fan either but like the thought put into his music alot more than what i hear on the radio today. this is one of those subjects that no one will ever be happy on no matter what so i am going to take a level up. almighty dont answer first.
what are the 4 elements to hip-hop?
just something rap lost sight of a long time ago.........
always know your roots
south bronx

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this again so i am going to lay it down again
tony, BIG L

TONY BIG L is #1
how you gonna forget the man i thought that we all talked about this but we can do it all again thats cool with me. i like tony list but he did leave some ppl out for sure like
KRS-ONE
freddie the foxxx
afu-ra
G.U.R.U.
method man
M.O.P. (lil fame & billy dazz)
reawkon

i think you have to put 2pac on there because of will to achive in the art. i myself am not really a pac fan either but like the thought put into his music alot more than what i hear on the radio today. this is one of those subjects that no one will ever be happy on no matter what so i am going to take a level up. almighty dont answer first.
what are the 4 elements to hip-hop?
just something rap lost sight of a long time ago.........
always know your roots

I hear you Pranc, I put Rae up there and I forgot about Guru and L (DAMN!!). KRS, Meth and MOP are dudes I'm a fan of, but I only have so many spots.

I'm not gonna answer the four elements, lets get Nasty or Good in here, since they're the experts.

but they had the blaze battle(50 greatest m.c.'s)
i dont know who all was the 50 but i know that freddie the foxxx was in the top 50 to them.
this is why top ten list dont really work cuz everyone would be different.

i also noticed that no one answered the for elements question!!!

thanks almighty for not answering cuz i know that you know and you know that i know. lol

i did expect jay to know though

pranc2 wrote:

but they had the blaze battle(50 greatest m.c.'s)
i dont know who all was the 50 but i know that freddie the foxxx was in the top 50 to them.
this is why top ten list dont really work cuz everyone would be different.

i also noticed that no one answered the for elements question!!!

thanks almighty for not answering cuz i know that you know and you know that i know. lol

i did expect jay to know though

Yall are forgetting how old I am. I didn't answer for a reason. I'm not ancient, though I remember the boom boxes with the 8-track...but keep in mind...Hip Hop is as old as me. The 4 elements to Hip Hop you have to understand, the game has changed since then...music has changed...many artists don't even know, care, or even fully understand them period..though folks are still wrecking (M.C.'g), on the wheels of steel (DJ'g) -That's 1200 Techs too...no B.S. CD/Computer DJ's. The dancing (B-Boy'g) isn't the same..but kinda still around, but as I said the game has changed. And Tagging (Graffiti paitin') isn't prevelant...unless you're in a set or a vandal. Though there all relative in the foundation of "hip hop"...the focus has changed...especially when it changed abroad nationally.

Remember...you're talking to a cat that stayed up late Sat. Nights to catch YO MTV Raps with Fab 5...and chuckled when "older" folks said it was a fad, and wouldn't be around for long. Blow,Marl, GM Flash, Bambaata, DMC, KRS, etc...been there, done that.

~Goodz~

I write a little, my tag is "Aemez", I never bombed or anything, but I do lil marker throwups in the blackbook. The kids who taught me were Max-One and Amaze. Rather than use Amaze2, I just flipped the spelling. I can tell Pranc is your writer tag, it sounds like one.

I'm almost 29 (damn, SMH) so I'm kinda in the middle of new and oldschool. I also grew up on Yo MTV Raps and Rap City with "The Mayor" Chris Thomas.

SOME stuff is still hot, but it's few and far between. Only the top artists still put out good albums. Everyone else puts out hot singles and BS on the rest of album. Times are just different, now.

TonyAlmighty wrote:

I write a little, my tag is "Aemez", I never bombed or anything, but I do lil marker throwups in the blackbook. The kids who taught me were Max-One and Amaze. Rather than use Amaze2, I just flipped the spelling. I can tell Pranc is your writer tag, it sounds like one.

I'm almost 29 (damn, SMH) so I'm kinda in the middle of new and oldschool. I also grew up on Yo MTV Raps and Rap City with "The Mayor" Chris Thomas.

SOME stuff is still hot, but it's few and far between. Only the top artists still put out good albums. Everyone else puts out hot singles and BS on the rest of album. Times are just different, now.

Times are different now b/c it's all industry lead...which thrives off commercialism. Majors took the game to whole nother level. Now most cats that enter the industry....use it as a stepping stone to either A) Get Rich quick...B) Get out the "Hood" or their area...or C) Want to be famous.

Once you're in there, and realize you don't eat unless you..."Sale...Sale...Sale." as Mortimer and Randolph say... then they want a way out, and look at other ways for compensation..a la acting. Less hands in the pot...which means more money in the pocket. Changed the game.

~Goodz~

yeah jay you are right about the reason for ppl getting into music or whatever but if you cant name the 4 elements than you are not hip-hop you are something else. from the criminal minded to the lil wayne last album it has always been about money and getting something better it is the mind state of the artist that makes them hip-hop. i.e. rage against the machine and sublime would both be hip-hop. hip-hop is all about the better meant of yourself, family, and the rest of the people in the culture similar to the MVMT to warhawk. like if warhawk was the whole popluation and the MVMT was the hip-hoppers. but you for the most part you are right the real culture has been forgotten by the masses. their is still a underground MVMT of real HIP-HOP around.

My ten will no be taken kindly. (No order)

1. Slug
2. MF Doom
3. Aceyalone
4. Gift of Gab
5. Nas
6. Del
7. Sage Francis
8. Ice Cube
9. Common
10. Masta Ace