[mayweather]

Who is the best rapper RIGHT now? In a time where rap sucks and it gives me a headache when listening to most jibber jabber of words, what rappers still got it/new rappers that are nice?
 
Love this song, it's touching and smooth. Not too happy lovey dovey and not too miserable and depressing. Just right in the emotion sector.
 

 


Just drop any highly skilled rapper in here.

 

[semisight]

My favorite rapper/artist is Lupe Fiasco. Dude's got some skills.
 

 
Here's one of my favorites. Skip to about :30 if you don't want to listen to the intro. It's about kids in Africa trained to kill, really sad stuff. Obviously not a glorification of it (although it may come off that way in the beginning).

 

[mayweather]

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My favorite rapper/artist is Lupe Fiasco. Dude's got some skills.
 
By the way, I can't see your video?

Aha. Yeah, Lupe is kinda nice, never really listened to too much of him. He showed great skill with "Kick Push" which was a song about skating BUT it was open to interpratation. I thought it was about passion, others thought it was about skating other thought it was about drug dealing. That's real nice. lol
 
But umm, the video I posted was "Scarface - Someday".

 

[semisight]

I edited my post, I listened to some of it, not bad. Not entirely my thing but I can see the talent in it.

 

[mayweather]

 
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I edited my post, I listened to some of it, not bad. Not entirely my thing but I can see the talent in it.

Heyy, umm. How about we use this as an exchange of music of unheard songs from rappers we most like?
Lets see, I'll drop 3 songs, you drop 3 songs.

 

 

 
 
- Edit
That was actually a good song. Could of had a better beat but apart from that, real nice concept & I really like the chorus. I'm bookmarking it.

 

[leeperry]

Redman/Method Man?

 

[mayweather]

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Redman/Method Man?

Well, Redman got nice rhymes. A few of his songs are old school rhyming crap like they did way back in the day. And other songs he got are club banger songs. Method Man is pretty nice but nothing spectacular. In between both of them, I'd say Redman is better then Method Man.
If you're talking about their coalition work, they've done some aight stuff, not so much classic stuff. Even though "MRS INTERNATIONAL" is a classic song that can get them in the hall of fame in MY EYES, there other stuff is pretty weak. One of the hardest parts of rapping is throwing your hard work in the trash. lol
 

 

[leeperry]

oh, I didn't realize the old school was "crap"

 
yes, I meant separately, Redman has great skills and Method has a really great tone *to my ears*, like in this one: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=isumZjs3dKA
 
this track kills anyway

 
but well, Erick Sermon, Das Efx, Diamond D, Lord Finesse, etc etc....but well, I forgot that the old school is "crap"

 
but asking for the best rapper would be like asking for the best dancehall singer? Bounty Killer will smoke everyone in a clash(listen to it in full, OMG): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1-tmqhjRHUE
 
does it mean that he's the only one worth listening to?

 

[unl3a5h3d]

It is a tie with me for Lil Wayne and Eminem. 

 

[leeperry]

Eminem best rapper, I shall leave this thread now...to me he's just an unskilled little whiner w/ an unbearable pitch, he's Dre's trojan horse

 

[mibutenma]

K-Rino.  Great lyrics,subject matter,storyteller,battle raps, has it all.   I can't believe with the internet people still don't know K-Rino.Probably the best rapper there is.
 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l8ZT7gyVsbY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YKAnB5-yd5s
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4KW69WJ-EVQ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H7xTE6aCkLA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iiRIweu1gpE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bqrMOzgIUl0
 
 
Esham -always been great really hardcore and cold.People thought Eminem was controversial this is the man he stole his ideas from and commercialized it the real Godfather of that hardcore sound that came from Detroit.
 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3sO8pOtyMPM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vkaTHEtTd3o
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aaxUQfhmyVs
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kz1wNahden4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wkJJKStKQfg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cyh_Y1GCqzo

 

[Rockford]

 
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Eminem best rapper, I shall leave this thread now...to me he's just an unskilled little whiner w/ an unbearable pitch, he's Dre's trojan horse

You obviously have not listened to enough of his work.
 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ullE__w9ris
 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CtRbEgoTqQs
 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R8ZsZnpuofk

 

[racer_x124]

Good post Rockford, people write off Eminem too quickly nowadays. He used to put a lot of time into his songs and really make them special.

 

[Rockford]

 
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oh, I didn't realize the old school was "crap"

 
yes, I meant separately, Redman has great skills and Method has a really great tone *to my ears*, like in this one: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=isumZjs3dKA
 
this track kills anyway

 
but well, Erick Sermon, Das Efx, Diamond D, Lord Finesse, etc etc....but well, I forgot that the old school is "crap"

 
but asking for the best rapper would be like asking for the best dancehall singer? Bounty Killer will smoke everyone in a clash(listen to it in full, OMG): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1-tmqhjRHUE
 
does it mean that he's the only one worth listening to?

Truth, best is far too relative and why do we need to even have a best rapper? Hip Hop is the only genre where people need to have a best for some reason, maybe it has to due with all the silly beef bull built into the genre.
 
How about instead of a best, a list of SOME of my favorites
 
A Tribe Called Quest
Beastie Boys
Big L
Big Pun
Binary Star
Blackstar
Canibus
Capone-N-Noreaga
Cappadonna
Common
Copywrite
Cunninlynguists
Cypress Hill
Das EFX
Deltron 3030
Del the funky homosapien
Erick Sermon
Fugees
Gang Starr
Ghostface Killah
Gravediggaz
GZA
Heltah Skeltah
Hieroglyphics
Immortal Technique
Inspectah Deck
Jedi Mind Tricks
Jurassic 5
Kardinal Offishal
Killah Priest
KRS One
Large Professor
Little Brother
Lost Boyz
Masta Killa
Method Man
MF Doom
MOP
Mos Def
Nas
Non-Prophets
Notorious B.I.G
O.C
Ol' Dirty person
One Be Lo
Organized Konfusion
Outerspace
Outkast
People Under the Stairs
Pharoahe Monch
Raekwon
Redman
Reflection Eternal
Rock
RZA
Screwball
Sean Price
Senim Silla
Slick Rick
Slum Village
Snoop Doggy Dog
Souls of Mischief
The Game
The Roots
U-God
Wiz Khalifa
Wu-Tang Clan
 

 

[Surreal.]

Semisight beat me too it.
 
Lupe IMO is head and shoulders above everyone else. 80% of what he says goes over people's heads. 
 
 
 
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Aha. Yeah, Lupe is kinda nice, never really listened to too much of him. He showed great skill with "Kick Push" which was a song about skating BUT it was open to interpratation. I thought it was about passion, others thought it was about skating other thought it was about drug dealing. That's real nice. lol

 
Kick, Push was a single. You need to hear some of his stuff that isn't as mainstream, if I can even use that word and Lupe in the same sentence.
 
Check out: Failure, I Gotcha, Lupe The Killa, Streets on Fire, Game Time, Yoga Flame, Say Something. I can really go on and on. 
 
 
Other than that some of my older favorites are:
 
Common
Nas
Lauryn Hill
Mos Def
Talib Kweli
The Roots
A Tribe Called Quest
The Fugees
 
and some newer guys that have shown they have what it takes:
 
Mickey Factz
J Cole
Wale
K'naan