In the gangsta rap era...
1) Pac got hit with "50 gs worth of gun clapping"
2) Jay Z sold crack to his own mother, and short his own brother over a dookie chain
3) Nas saw Ill Will and his brother get lit up for sheep's coat from his project window
4) Ghost Face had to wear a stocking over his face to not get recognized by the feds, and he slipped in the Tunnel with Killah Sin, and they snuffed Mase in his jaw...
5) Tragedy stabbed a child molester in the neck with a broken pencil at Rikers' Island when the pervert tried to molest him (but Frank Ocean let a pervert play with his bootyhole and hip hop today accepts it

)
6) Keith Murray snuffed Prodigy in front of the cops, and then took a flight to Vegas to get into a fight with Tupac...
7) Snoop Dogg murdered a skinny Eritrean brother who tried to steal his Munchies money...
8) Nore Shot a dude right in front of Prodigy...
9) Pac got lit up in Vegas for being about that life...
10) Biggie got lit up for not understanding his own song "beef"...
11) Big L got lit up for probably f+ckin another dudes wife...
12) Chi Ali killed his brother in law for acting too funny style...
13) A humburger or fried chicken killed Big Pun...
14) Tru Life made Infamous Mobb run naked in the cold New York winter air...
15) 50 Cents got lit up for runnin his mouth
16) E money Bags got lit up for light someone up in broad day light...
And there are plenty more stories that will remain untold...
The list goes on and on...
How many top 5 contenders have died in this era of "beefing' with everybody...?
None...
Today's rappers (in general) aint about that action...All these beefs are manufactured...That's why names are seldom mentioned...