Not another top hip hop rapper list
It really grinds my gears when I see these top three or top five best rappers of all time or in history. They are all over the search engines but none of them seem to consider the valid points. A rapper is not someone who comes with the best rhymes or has the best production behind them but rather someone who presents him or herself in the perfect balance.
To be the best rapper, it’s all about how many people you’ve influenced. To me the greatest rapper or one of the greatest rapper is the person who has had the most impact. How do you know if someone has had an impact or not? This is where you analyze three things, the beat, the rhymes, the flow and the hustle of the rapper. It has to be that perfect combination of things and when done right, transforms into greatness. When taking all those things into perspective, you will see that the huge list that you had in your head begins to narrow down.
Out of all the rappers and hip hop artists, only 2pac, Master P, Sean Combs, Curtis Jackson and Slim Shady has had the most global impact. 2pac is still selling records and it has been almost 11 years since he got shot. Master P is the one put the dirty south on the map before the Cash Money Records deal and before Lil John’s Crunk. Plus Mr. Miller ended up on the richest men in american list at just 28 when he started No limit records. His album ‘Ghetto Dope’ is nothing short of a classic with funky basslines and raw style of rapping that was simply too original.
Finally when Marshall came up it was like a re-brith in rap music. Here you had a white rapper who actually had some phenomenal skills. The color barrier was broken again and this time it was the opposite. You would think that after all the suffering black people went through, they would let the white kid do his thing but I guess anger is something that can slow down creativity, but not completely halt it.
Finally we have P Diddy who almost single handedly brought the rap game to the mainstream and pop charts. Some might argue that P Diddy made hip hop pop – but I think he made hip hop popular around the world. By using a very new formula of remixing ‘white’ songs into hip hop dance anthems, P Diddy show cased a new side of hip hop. It is because of P Diddy that the world outside of the US fell in love with hip hop. Not to mention, it was P Diddy who introduced Notorious B.I.G to us.
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