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Top 10 Rappers Of All Time

Started by just8section, Jun 27, 2018, in Music Add to Reading List

  1. Holy Water
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    Holy Water

    Jun 28, 2018
    What's his recent song
     
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  2. Charlie Work
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    His singles defined a generation's formative years no different than how Wayne's did for the generation prior. You know Best I Ever Had and Find Your Love are popping up at wedding receptions and s--- now. It's nearly impossible to gatekeep what classic means when it comes popular music. Try saying Michael Jackson and The Beatles didn't have hits without coming off like a contrarian. Drake is that level of iconic.

    You can't talk about 2008-2012 without talking about all of those Drake singles. The Wayne collabs alone were inescapable and really the last flash of Wayne's best days that Drake brought out of him: Right Above It, HYFR, The Motto, Miss Me. Then you have his solo s--- like Headlines and Marvin's Room and the couple I lead off with. Then there's those couple of hits with Khaled like No New Friends and I'm On One. His catalog of hits is extensive to say the least.

    On a personal level, I still return to Underground Kings and June 17 regularly and I can't even finish the projects Drake was putting out back then. The guy has an undeniable knack for singles. You can dispel a lot of myths about Drake's supposed status, but I don't think that's one of them.
     
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  3. Jay Zeus
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    Jay Zeus I am the god-favored weed strain

    Jun 28, 2018
    Did this n----- say 0-100 might be Drake's only classic song? Wtf? Take it back. Or ELSE! *Braun Strowman Voice*
     
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  4. JulnHT
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    50 (reminds me of some classic times in my life)
    Weezy
    Eminem
    Kool Savas (best german rapper)
    Pac
    Jigga
    Llyod Banks
    Kid Cudi ( I dont like his new Music but "Man on the Moon" will be a forever classic for me)
     
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  5. Skippy
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    Skippy vr

    Jun 28, 2018
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  6. Zebedee
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    Zebedee Banned

    Jun 28, 2018
    I feel like CharlieWork has has that response written for weeks and has been waiting to try and impress WPG with it. Ain’t nobody tryna read that.
     
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  7. Charlie Work
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    Charlie Work Level 5 Goblin

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    It was a pretty normal conversation. Maybe don't be a tryhard with quips all day and you'll get one for yourself.

    Keep it up, Z. We all think you're a very cool person.
     
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  8. Big Dangerous
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    Big Dangerous World Heavyweight Champion

    Jun 28, 2018
    The fact still remains this man put Drake over Nas:kanye:
     
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  9. WPG
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    WPG sxn80 Rory Gilmore

    Jun 28, 2018
    first of all, these––

    ––like his undeniable songs from recent years ("one dance," "controlla," "hotline bling," "hold on we're going home") are...not really rap songs. this is partially my point.

    drake's music is incredibly popular in the moment. no doubt about it. is "i'm on one" a classic rap song, though? when that beat comes on, are rappers trying to jump on it? do drake's lyrics from it make their way into conversation, or get interpolated/alluded to by other artists? does he have a "grindin," a "g thang"––a "real slim shady"? i'm not sure. phrases like "no new friends" make it through, sure. does anyone really care about that song, even a few years removed? that was 2013; a classic rap song from 2013 is "type of way." drake, as famous as he is for being a rapper, doesn't really have the catalog of rap songs you would imagine he does.
     
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  10. Charlie Work
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    Charlie Work Level 5 Goblin

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    Type of Way meets none of these standards.

    YOLO.

    Every lyric Drake has ever said has captioned a thousand Instagram posts. I'd bet that his lyrics are tattooed on more people's bodies than the amount of people who bought RHQ's last album lol.

    Either you're severely out of touch with the average listener or are desperately overrating the media class's role in dictating what's what. Drake has the most billboard success of any rapper ever. He did that on the strength of his singles.
     
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  11. WPG
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    WPG sxn80 Rory Gilmore

    Jun 28, 2018
    i would refer you to your own reasoning:
    but in all seriousness........i don't think you understand the argument i'm making, otherwise you wouldn't be telling me about how often drake charts. i know drake charts constantly. i know he always has songs on the radio. i'm saying his rap songs tend to not endure the way most truly classic rap songs, even those from this decade, do. obviously this is not an argument that can be won empirically.

    i do think it's sort of dumb that you theorize i'm overestimating the role of media or whatever––find me a bloc of rap listeners more obsessed with drake than those in music media. they're his biggest boosters.
     
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  12. joeyp363
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    Tech n9ne
    Eminem
    Logic
    Royce
    JOHN CENA
    Hopsin
    Q
    CEREBRAL ASSASSIN
    HHH
    Shania twayne
     
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  13. emanisbetter
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    emanisbetter

    Jun 28, 2018
    My personal all time favorite as of right now

    1. Isaiah rashad
    2. Ab soul
    3. Earl sweatshirt
    4. Eminem
    5. Pharoahe monch
    6. Lupe fiasco
    7. Tyler the creator
    8. Asap rocky
    9. Royce da 5'9
    10. JID
    11. LIL wayne
    12. Mac miller
    13. Jay z
    14. Dem atlas
    15. Mick jenkins
    16. Milo
    17. Kendrick lamar
    18. Vince staples
    19. Kanye west
    20. Andre 3000



    If you want me to try an be a "objective" as possible for me . for me longevity doesn't matter more so the quality put out during the prime peak dominance. Then skill then overall discography


    1. Jay z
    2. Eminem
    3. Nas
    4. Kendrick Lamar
    5. Biggie
    6. Tupac
    7. Lil Wayne
    8. Andre 3000
    9. Kanye West
    10. Lupe fiasco
     
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