The 10 Greatest Hip-Hop Artists

What a cock.

I have no idea what my top 10 would be. Other than Rakim being number one. Pharoahe Monch would be in there. So would Guru. Likewise Big L.

Then I'm all out of ideas.
 
feck off Tim Westwood, no Nas, Big L, Big Pun, Rakim etc. and you put in fecking Nicki Minaj?
 
The classic Jay-Z albums are The Blueprint (2001) and The Black Album (2003)
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This single line is a great example of why nobody should ever pay any attention to Tim Westwood.
 
:lol: I didn't even get past the first slide at first, Kanye West and Lil' Wayne?!!!! Drake?!! Minaj :lol:
 
Anyway, nobody comes close in terms of the embodiment of hip-hop as an artist as Tupac. Seeing him on a list with Drake and Tinie Tempah is just offensive to hip-hop heads.
 
R_Nick said:
Blueprint is brilliant, but I was referring to the exclusion of Reasonable Doubt, which is far and away Jay Z's best album.
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Ah yes, I see. Well, I disagree, Blueprint is his best for me. I also enjoyed a couple of his joints on Dynasty: Roc La Familia, 'intro', 'this can't be life' and 'soon you'll understand' you could sort of see the progression into the Blueprint.

The blueprint production and sampling was top notch.
 
AdZzUtd said:
Ah yes, I see. Well, I disagree, Blueprint is his best for me. I also enjoyed a couple of his joints on Dynasty: Roc La Familia, 'intro', 'this can't be life' and 'soon you'll understand' you could sort of see the progression into the Blueprint.

The blueprint production and sampling was top notch.
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Fair enough, for me nothing of his comes close to RD, although he has produced some other very good albums.
Lance Uppercut said:
Tupac sucks. An actor.
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Get out.
 
Lance Uppercut said:
Tupac sucks. An actor.
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Also, the list is absolutely fecked up.

No Wu-Tang members present at all??
No NaS??
No Big L??

Westwood is a fecking cretin.
 
I'll admit that I don't know much about Hip Hop, but it would appear I know more than Tim Westwood. What about Big Boi and Andre 3000, Black Thought, Mos Def, Talib Kweli, Q-Tip, Raekwon, Ghostface Killah, Nas etc.
 
Members of hi-hop's greatest ever group have no place on the list.

Yep.
 
AdZzUtd said:
Members of hi-hop's greatest ever group have no place on the list.

Yep.
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Name me one quality rap by any Wu Tang member. I'll wait here. While you dig through the self indulgent garbage that GFK spews up, the utter nonsense that ODB rambles on about, and the passable stuff that GZA conjures up.

His solo albums are still garbage. Par for the course with the Wu.
 
I bomb atomically, Socrates' philosophies
and hypothesis can't define how I be droppin these
mockeries, lyrically perform armed robbery
Flee with the lottery, possibly they spotted me
Battle-scarred shogun, explosion when my pen hits
tremendous, ultra-violet shine blind forensics
I inspect you, through the future see millenium
Killa B's sold fifty gold sixty platinum
Shacklin the masses with drastic rap tactics
Graphic displays melt the steel like blacksmiths
Black Wu jackets queen B's ease the guns in
Rumble with patrolmen, tear gas laced the function
Heads by the score take flight incite a war
Chicks hit the floor, diehard fans demand more
Behold the bold soldier, control the globe slowly
Proceeds to blow swingin swords like Shinobi
Stomp grounds and pound footprints in solid rock
Wu got it locked, performin live on your hottest block
 
Triumph. Ironic. Yet still the best "song" from their horrendous second album.
 
AdZzUtd said:
Ah yes, I see. Well, I disagree, Blueprint is his best for me. I also enjoyed a couple of his joints on Dynasty: Roc La Familia, 'intro', 'this can't be life' and 'soon you'll understand' you could sort of see the progression into the Blueprint.

The blueprint production and sampling was top notch.
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The production was brilliant on Blueprint, but Reasonable Doubt was on a whole 'nother level when it came to lyricism and rhyming - Can I Live, Dead Presidents II, D'Evils feck, pretty much every track on that album was a timeless classic. The same cannot be said of the Blueprint IMHO
 
Have a lot of respect for Westwood.Been there from the 80's and as interviewed thousands and thousands of hip hop artists.This list is just commercial friendly
 
I think we should have a Redcafe quest to find the Top 10 MC's of all time.
 
So Boss was really Tim Westwood in disguise, eh?
 
Funny how every single person on the cafe hates commercial or popular music or films or anything.

That list is named wrong.Should be named as the most popular artists anyways.

And its not Westwood's fault ffs. He is a DJ and these are the artists he has to play if he is going to maintain his job.
 
Cold_Boy said:
Funny how every single person on the cafe hates commercial or popular music or films or anything.

That list is named wrong.Should be named as the most popular artists anyways.

And its not Westwood's fault ffs. He is a DJ and these are the artists he has to play if he is going to maintain his job.
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And so, what? We should just agree with him and move on?

If he wants to appease current artists that's fine, but if people disagree with his laughable list of 'the 10 greatest hip hop artists' then they're perfectly entitled to point out how wrong it is.
 
Hectic said:
Well, it is entirely his fault isn't it.
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Yes because he would be out of job if he didnt play the music or endorse the artists he has named.

Don't think a commercial DJ's list should be taken seriously anyways.
 
Nice. I'm in a list kinda mood so in no particular order

Biggie
Big L
Big Pun
Rakim
Kool G Rap
Ras Kass
Canibus
Krs One
Nas
RA the Rugged Man
 
Troll Westwood strikes again. He's thrived off doing this his whole career, and people continue to bite.
 
AdZzUtd said:
Ah yes, I see. Well, I disagree, Blueprint is his best for me. I also enjoyed a couple of his joints on Dynasty: Roc La Familia, 'intro', 'this can't be life' and 'soon you'll understand' you could sort of see the progression into the Blueprint.

The blueprint production and sampling was top notch.
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Thing is reasonable doubt is actually one of the best produced rap albums in the 90's. Some of Premo and Ski's best beats were on there. Had that smooth jazz feel to it too.

I do agree with the production on the blueprint though. Just blaze and Kanye were exceptional on that album.

And yes, the dynasty intro is actually one of his best ever songs, shame it was only one verse!
 
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