In Your Opinion Whos the best Rapper of All time ?

 

hes awesome, its a shame more people dont know of him, for anyone who doesnt download everythign if his u can

ICE T tha man!

Not a single vote for Eminem ???

He's definately my fav rapper, followed closely by Pac.

 

As far as best, I have to call this one a tie between those two.

 

I've got a short list and its similar to many of you boys who clearly know your shit.  Rap has evolved so much, that its difficult to compare the originators to the guys out there today.  What you need to do, is look at how far advanced the guys of the past were for their time and then you will see how the majority of votes are going to the "founding fathers"- for lack of a better word.  In recent years, yes, you'd have to say Big and Jay hands down...but my all time list includes (in no particular order):

 

 

And two more things:

 

 

 

Holy Shit!  I may burn for forgetting this one....but on my all time list is absolutely NAS!!!  This boy has been TIGHT since day 1.

 

If any of you younger guys, or older for that matter have never listened to him come out on Main Source's "Live at the BBQ"...you must do it now.  My estimate is he must have been like 16 when he did it.  I'm 33 now and when that came out, I was in my prime as far as listening to hip hop.

 

Update/Clarification...Nas was nearly 18 when he did "Live at the BBQ".  I forgot he was born in 73 like me- thought he was a year or two younger.

 

Its Biggie by far nobody not even Pac could fuck with him lyrically

 

 

1. Biggie

 

2. Pac

 

3. Nas

 

 

 

 

Greatest rap song ever:  I got 5 on it...the Goonies

 

Greatest rapper ever?  That is really, really tough, but I would look to the pioneers like Run-DMC and Public Enemy.  Big Daddy Kane, Heavy D and Ton Loc changed rap and made it more danceclub friendly. 

 

Recently, Snoop, but I haven't been heavy into rap for a while.

its NOTORIOUS BIG for sure

 

 

Fukin SLOTH 

Back in the day here in DC , Chuck Brown was the MAN!!!!

 

Trouble Funk, EU , Lil Benny and the Masters ..

 

 

Busta Rhymes IMO is the most talented.

busta rhymes is amazing and very underrrated if u ask me, but i think he annoys a lot of people

KRS-1

Big Daddy Cane

Jay-Z

Don't know who the greatest of all time is, but I think eminem is unreal.

 

I wasn't a huge fan at first. I had his "Eminem Show" and "Encore" albums, but never really listened to it. Then one day, after blazing a joint, put his cd in and checked out the words. I was blown away by the way he makes his lyrics rhyme together, and its hilarious. To me, it's like his raps are like tongue twisters. He is definitely a "word wizard" like he says in one of his songs.