Top 5? List em.

[SlySlickSmooth]

If you've seen that new comedy with Chris Rock, Top Five, you know why I'm posting this. So who is your top five?

(not sure if this is a concrete order)
1. Rakim
2. Nas
3. 2Pac
4. Slick Rick
5. Jay-Z

You guys got a top five?

[-jose-]

Big Pun

Notorious B.I.G.

2Pac

Big Daddy Kane

Nas

Rakim

also Lauryn Hill, Jadakiss and the list goes on...

these are the first that came to mind

MY TOP!

[SlySlickSmooth]

Muhammad Ali gets a honorable mention for being a rhyme pioneer.

[El-blanco]

Hard to put any of these above the other because at one time they were my current fav.
1. 2pac-voice, passion, mic presence, topics, his music transcended rap even before he died(keep ya head up, dear mama).
2. Prodigy-infamous, hell on earth are two of my favourite albums ever and every verse he laid on those two albums gave me goose bumps. I realize he fell off after that but for those two albums alone I rank him there.
3. Now that I'm older I realize nas, even in his younger years, was similar to PAC. They both made songs with a message or story, not just rapping to rap. One love, black girl lost, ny state of mind pt 2, etc
4. Big pun- boricua!
5. Project pat- lol, strange pick, but his albums were full of crazy beats and vivid tales of drugs and crime. Probably the most underrated gangster rapper ever.

[GeneralZod]

(1.) Scarface
Kool G. Rap
Chuck D
Ghostface Killah
Common

[Beercules]

Nas

Eminem

Biggie

Jay

Big L.


Yes I am biased towards east coast rap.

[kiaba360]

I'll be the first to say I haven't listened to enough for my list to be worth much. It's always changing, and it depends on my current listening habits.

Right now: Ice-T, Ice Cube, KRS-One, Big Daddy Kane, Guru

[baya]

Nas

Eminem

Biggie

Jay

Big L.


Yes I am biased towards east coast rap.

y este cabron no puso a big pun, matalo ya, jose.

[Beercules]

y este cabron no puso a big pun, matalo ya, jose.

Pun is up there. I kinda just threw that list out there

[-jose-]

y este cabron no puso a big pun, matalo ya, jose.

I got this, he don't know I be Packin'a Mac in the Back of the Ac