Who is your favorite...

2Pac

Not a definitive list, but off the top of my head:

Rakim
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=95gP3m-u…

Guru from Gang Starr
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U76Nde6r…

Big L
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3gNzypRw…

Kanye West
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8fbyfDbi…

Riff Raff
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ipxQVG2P…

Lil Xan
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EbfK7dei…

Baby E
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xiTOUpzR…

Rae Sremmurd
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_7anctpb…

Ice Cube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KKA9rMWb…

SchoolBoy Q
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_L2vJEb6…

POLICEMAN
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1EKTw50U…

YG
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HkVS79y4…

Yo Gotti
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YXSpXO4N…

And others....

Gotta love Slick Rick

Presently, it's a tie with Kevin Gates and Rick Ross.
If we want to go old school, I'm also a fan of Master P, 2Pac, and DMX.

Favorite rapper: XXXTentacion

Why: He's dead.

Kid Rock - Why ? Because he wants " to open up an escort service for all the right reasons " .

DMX, Jim Jones, Run DMC, Ja Rule, Lil Wayne, Bobby Shmurda,

Fu Schnickens

And for the same reason Warrior mentioned him - Kid Rock! I’m still unsure what all the right reasons are - but that is a great line!

LOL @ Jack

Tracy Lauren Marrow

Eminem

Dayyum Jack you took the words right out of my mouth;)

Silent Bob https://youtu.be/W-xKUU5sWS4

2Pac
Biggie
Lauryn Hill
Snoop Dogg (early music)
Those are my all time faves, I guess. 2Pac was a straight up poet. My mom listened to a lot of Biggie and Lauryn Hill as a kid, but I got into 2Pac on my own.

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I also like(d) Ice Cube, Common, Eminem's early music. Dr Dre gets credit especially for Eminem and Snoop. I don't listen to much new stuff, but Kendrick Lamar seems to be the best rapper of this era. His music is insanely creative and complex.

I remember my when I was a little kid and Eminem was first becoming a thing, my mom was obsessed with him. She was in the kitchen washing the dishes and had some music channel (maybe MTV) playing in the living room. "The Real Slim Shady" comes on and I remember my mom loved it so much, she stopped the dishes and ran into the living room to find out who the artist was. She was floored when she saw it was a white guy. For the next couple weeks she was so fascinated and would tell her friends, "have you heard 'The Real Slim Shady?' I couldn't believe that was a white boy rapping!" and, "You gotta listen to this boy!" and blah blah blah. He hasn't had a song I really liked since like 2010, but he has a few hits that I love enough to almost bump him up to the first tier.

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Kid Rock is a joke, he doesn't deserve to be mentioned in the same breath as Jay-Z or Nas (who aren't even my faves but are hip-hop royalty), or any of the people I previously mentioned and he gave up rap a while ago anyway. He has become so irrelevant I've met people who actually thought he's been dead for a while.

^ Amen Nina!

2Pac was the best poet. Eminem has the best skillz and his 'dis' is unbeatable. Lauryn Hill was a top notch diva AND rapper. And yeah Kendrick is the best of all the new school. His style and poetry is smooth. Also Ice Cube proved that he was the 'brains' of NWA while Dre was the 'soul' (and Easy E was the 'voice').

I just bought a bunch of Wu-Tang Clan recently and forgot how good they were too. Quite possibly the best rap 'band' ever.

2Pac
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ThU5NF0m…
Ice T
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=izuMg1GG…
RA the Rugged Man
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VGiwITas…
Canibus
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HjT7h3KK…
Spank Rock
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aExVpKxW…
A$AP Rocky
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=liZm1im2…
Schoolboy Q
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5OdDmC1-…
AZ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S8tHa0z0…
Westside COnnection
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YQ9QiYfN…
Luniz
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bS415UOp…

Kid Frost
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fMkWeu_E…
Mr Criminal
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gJ_oxeJl…

"2Pac was the best poet."

Yes, Sirlapdancealot. My current tagline is inspired by his short poem about the rose that grew from concrete.

I think a lot of people have a prejudice towards rappers and think all of the hardcore rappers are worthless thugs. I'm sure very few people knew that before 2Pac was a star, he went to Baltimore School For the Arts and studied poetry, jazz, acting, and even ballet. He was in Shakespeare plays and played the Mouse King in a ballet of The Nutcracker. Like he said, his "mama didn't raise no fool."

He was actually a good actor, too. He co-starred with Tim Roth in Gridlock'd, which got pretty good reviews. He showed a lot of potential as an actor, but the acting career was obviously cut short because he was murdered.

He was a very talented man.

Eminem https://youtu.be/FA2nke0ZAZg
BONE Thugs N Harmony https://youtu.be/9vUkMdj2fZ8
Krayzie and Bizzy my favorites)
https://youtu.be/qwp4_FwZOu4
https://youtu.be/j4U7zi4SVKY
Notorious BIG https://youtu.be/N6XhzXB3oY8
Busta Rhymes https://youtu.be/_SGHV0KXzVw
E-40 https://youtu.be/bRChz-OYi9o
Jay-Z https://youtu.be/Cgoqrgc_0cM

And dedicated to everyone on this board
Ice Cube https://youtu.be/gVGTaFulHrM

2 Pac is my favorite of all-time. As far as right now, I’m really into XXXtentacion (not just because he’s dead).

I can't believe that Papi hasn't brought up his BFF from down in Miami, Pitbull. After watching the following video, everyone on this site should be a fan of Pitbull :

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2up_Eq6r…

Warrior15 I forgot about him. His 'Dont stop the party' is one of my favorite vacation songs ever. The second I arrive in my Vegas hotel room in about a month that'll be the first song I play.

I really love kanye..but i like his attitude more. I have many other favorites as well

Chuck D from Public Enemy. Loved Run DMC and 2Pac. Much more into old school hip hop than today's stuff.

No love for Naughty by Nature?

^ I'm down with OPP!

@sirdance lot u like kanye attitude too?

@Nicole1994 I can't stand Kanye. He's a bonehead.

I loved Kanye when he was real. Then he married a Kardashian and went into the sunken place. Can't stand him now. Loved "College Dropout."

The Kardashians are nothing to be jealous about.

My favorite rapper? The one I can't hear or see !

My favorite rapper? Don't listen to that ridicolous crap! I use to think you was a goddess nicole 1994 till you asked a stupid question like that!

SirLDAlot - thank you! That was some good party music!

Vanilla Ice
The Beastie Boys

Exactly none of them.

I spoke too soon. This wrapper stands the test of time -

https://www.instagram.com/p/Bj4UPvODjcL/…

Lol surprised this wasnt done already

https://www.instagram.com/p/bRXjRSmN1m/

@countryman i thought u were cool.until u made that stupid comment.lol, seriously:)

I like the wrapper from a freshly printed stack of $100. dollar bills

@25 i like kanye better.

;)

Continued...

Geto Boys
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LsU23AEm…

Songs that feature Nate Dogg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1plPyJdX…

Slim Jesus
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZRo48zg2…

Lil Peep
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zOujzvtw…

Lil Uzi Vert
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WrsFXgQk…

Lil B
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MB5gKerb…

Rappin 4 Tay
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2daXghqH…

Foesum
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LgW7BH6B…

Mobb Deep
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-8ilbv2e…

The Pack
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5fR2OgGb…

@ NinaBambina

Kanye West is the most innovative, honest, and courageous rapper of all time. His music has only gotten better with each album. He's a much greater producer than rapper, but even based purely off his raps he's still a genius. "Bound 2" is my favorite love song of all time. "Power" is still the coolest, most epic rap song I have ever heard. "Famous" captures the Zeitgeist of America in the 21st Century. "Lift Yourself" is Hip Hop Dadaism. He has yet to make a bad album, in my opinion.

Kid Cudi
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VrDfSZ_6…

Tech N9ne
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jV69Z8IQ…

B.O.B.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IulOVRQV…

Hopsin
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tKwdqjVi…

Lil Debbie
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1UgCtXfz…

Soul’d Out
https://youtu.be/BrCSsMwvuJg

KB
https://youtu.be/LMvsYUy_HC8

Buckwheat Groats
https://youtu.be/JFRohrsZZO0

To be continued....

I didn't grow up with rap so can't say I have one - used to like MC Hammer back in the day but not sure if he's considered a rapper

MC Hammer is definitely a rapper, and underrated. People gave him trash for sampling Rick James, when sampling is so key to hip-hop. Vanilla Ice is a legitimate rapper too, and was about as good as most radio rappers of his time.

Echo you're all over the place. You fuckin serious with slim jesus, lil uzi vert and lil b? C'mon

Lil debbie is trash. Who are all these other fuckboys?

2-Live-Crew (dem boys were nasty)

Beastie Boys I would listen to ("Brass monkey brass monkey monkey")

I def liked Dr Dre's beats/producing (love the beat of "California Dreaming" and Snoop Dogg's "What's My Name")

At this point anybody with lil anything in their name should just quit. Lil xan, lil yachty, lil pump, lil uzi vert, lil b, lil debbie is some of the worst garbage ive ever heard. Worse than country even. Lil wayne was dope before the autotune shit.

im working on a mixtape

I like Rick Ross' rhyming and his deep thick voice goes well with his rapping (until recently I didn't know he grew up in a suburb of Miami called Carol City)

This is hard to answer.

New skool

A$AP Rocky
Schoolboy@
Kendrick Lamar
RA the Rugged Man

Old Skool

Nas
Rakim
Biggie
Big Pun
Tupac
Kurupt
Jay Z
AZ
Ice T
NWA
Dr Dre
early Snoop Dogg
Eazy E

DJ Quik