mtvs top 10 greatest rappers ....

[GAMEC0CK2002]

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Both Don Kulamanati and All Eyez On Me got 5 mics in The Source(in a time where that still meant alot). Me Against The World is, IMO, his best album and also considered a classic as well.

yes sir.

[Kruza]

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I seriously need to get into KRS-One more. I only got one of his album's Krystiles...

Man, that's the worst album KRS has made in his entire career aside from Spiritual Minded.

If you want to hear some good material from KRS, then get any if not all of his BDP joints (pre-'92), his first 3 solo albums before he went on a brief "hiatus" [Return of the Boom Bap ('93), self-titled KRS-One ('95), I Got Next ('97)], plus The Sneak Attack (2000), The Mix Tape ('01) for the Nelly diss track "Ova Here" plus other tracks Da Beatminerz blessed him with, and Keep Right ('04). The flow and rhyme styles he use in his BDP work is obviously outdated along with mainly simplistic beats, but lyrical content is still relevant today and I would still recommend any hip-hop fan to listen to them all.

Although I wouldn't consider any of his solo albums classics, they are all good to very good albums with few lackluster tracks mixed in that brings down the overall quality of each of them. The styles he flows with on some of the tracks on these albums are insane. He flows in ways many MCs are scared to do or just can't. And everyone knows he can rap on variety of subjects many MCs wouldn't dare touch. KRS is one of the most complete MCs ever, and he proves why he's in my personal pantheon of the Great Four MCs of All Time (G Rap, Rakim and Kane are the others if you're curious).

And if you only have the opportunity to get a select few or one outside his BDP stuff, then you must get Return of the Boom Bap, his best solo album to date in my opinion. The tracks DJ Premier did on the album are great. The beat for "Outta Here" still bangs today, and "Higher Level" is one of the greatest hip-hop tracks I ever heard. The lead single "Sound of Da Police" was a really good one from Showbiz. And Kid Capri hit KRS off with some nice beats as well like on "Brown Skin Woman" and "Stop Frontin'" for starters. Just a very solid album. I would rank the self-titled KRS-One and Keep Right as next best after this.

Kruza

[aholbert32]

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Graphik,

I accidently deleted your message. Sorry about that.

[aholbert32]

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Both Don Kulamanati and All Eyez On Me got 5 mics in The Source(in a time where that still meant alot). Me Against The World is, IMO, his best album and also considered a classic as well.

Don Kiluminati wasnt a 5 mic album and even though All Eyez on Me got 5 mics, I dont see how anyone can say that was a classic album. The album had 20+ songs on it and maybe 7-8 good songs.

I do agree that Me Against the World was his best album though.

[Graphik]

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Graphik,

I accidently deleted your message. Sorry about that.

Thats like a cop accidentally using his billy club upside my head. I'm suing.

[Graphik]

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Don Kiluminati wasnt a 5 mic album and even though All Eyez on Me got 5 mics, I dont see how anyone can say that was a classic album. The album had 20+ songs on it and maybe 7-8 good songs.

I do agree that Me Against the World was his best album though.

All 3 albums were dope to me. Disc 1 of All Eyez on Me was dope in every sense of the word. Disc 2 fell off a lil bit but it could'nt take away from such a good album.

[aholbert32]

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All 3 albums were dope to me. Disc 1 of All Eyez on Me was dope in every sense of the word. Disc 2 fell off a lil bit but it could'nt take away from such a good album.

I agree that Disc 1 was good and if he didnt have disc 2 it would have been a great album. The problem is he did make it a 2 disc set. Same goes for WuTang on Wu Tang Forever.

[Vince]

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eminem is another overrated guy, he had to great albums with slim shady and marshall mathers other then that he went back to meatloaf and apple pies

Eminem Show was a great album.

It seems that people are putting him down because Encore was "meh"...

[jmood88]

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Eminem Show was a great album.

It seems that people are putting him down because Encore was "meh"...

Encore was one of the worst albums I've listened to, outside of whatever dipset puts out. Eminem fell off hard. Listen to his older stuff and then listen to encore or even the eminem show, just completely different.

[Vince]

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Encore was one of the worst albums I've listened to, outside of whatever dipset puts out. Eminem fell off hard. Listen to his older stuff and then listen to encore or even the eminem show, just completely different.

There were some decent songs on it. Mosh was nice as was Yellow Brick Road and Toy Soliders.

But I preety much agree that it wasn't up to par with his older stuff and I'm a huge Em fan.

[Rocky]

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Don Kiluminati wasnt a 5 mic album and even though All Eyez on Me got 5 mics, I dont see how anyone can say that was a classic album. The album had 20+ songs on it and maybe 7-8 good songs.

I do agree that Me Against the World was his best album though.

All three are classics, IMO. This just goes to show you that people look for different things in a rapper. Pac just made everything relevant and could connect with you better than other artists. I love KRS-One and Rakim, but despite them being lyrically superior to Pac, I didn't get the same sense of emotion and personalization with them as I did 2Pac.

DMX most times has one emotion-anger. Pac was so charasmatic he could pull anything off.

BTW, I'm far from a 2Pac fan. I think someone earlier said it best---overrated by mainstream, underrated by backpackers.

[aholbert32]

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BTW, I'm far from a 2Pac fan. I think someone earlier said it best---overrated by mainstream, underrated by backpackers.

I agree with that. Thats why I have him in the 5-7 range. I just dont think a non lyricist should be #2.

[kac]

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Im 29 years old and have been listening to rap since I was 8 and imo 2pac ia the best rapper of all time and I can name every album before and after his death.I dont know how anyone can say he wasnt good lyrically.I dont think alot of people understand that 2pac used his music and popularity to get his message across the music in general was not his main intention.So do your slelfs a favor and pick up 2pacalopse now,Stricktly for my N*****,Thuglife,Me against the world,ALL Eyez on Me,and Makavelli then come back on hear and tell me he wasnt good lyrically.Give it a shot the worst that can happen is you can soak up some game.The hate you give little infants F**** everybody.THUG LIFE BABBBYY.

[Nivek]

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Im 29 years old and have been listening to rap since I was 8 and imo 2pac ia the best rapper of all time and I can name every album before and after his death.I dont know how anyone can say he wasnt good lyrically.I dont think alot of people understand that 2pac used his music and popularity to get his message across the music in general was not his main intention.So do your slelfs a favor and pick up 2pacalopse now,Stricktly for my N*****,Thuglife,Me against the world,ALL Eyez on Me,and Makavelli then come back on hear and tell me he wasnt good lyrically.Give it a shot the worst that can happen is you can soak up some game.The hate you give little infants F**** everybody.THUG LIFE BABBBYY.

Yyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyeah.

[jmood88]

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Im 29 years old and have been listening to rap since I was 8 and imo 2pac ia the best rapper of all time and I can name every album before and after his death.I dont know how anyone can say he wasnt good lyrically.I dont think alot of people understand that 2pac used his music and popularity to get his message across the music in general was not his main intention.So do your slelfs a favor and pick up 2pacalopse now,Stricktly for my N*****,Thuglife,Me against the world,ALL Eyez on Me,and Makavelli then come back on hear and tell me he wasnt good lyrically.Give it a shot the worst that can happen is you can soak up some game.The hate you give little infants F**** everybody.THUG LIFE BABBBYY.

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