Best Dominican Rapper?

[wizworld]

Whether you knew that they were Dominican or not doesn't mean anything. I could post up pics of plenty of Dominicans that you were never know were Dominican unless you knew who they were.

I highly doubt that's the case. Everybody raps these days. If a Dominican wants to rap, he's gonna rap regardless.

I'm not saying don't rep your roots. If you want to, then by all means go ahead. But you're trying to say that them not repping their Dominican roots makes them less Dominican. Which is bullshyt

AZ has always spoken on his Dominican roots. @ISO just posted some examples.

None of this would be an issue if these guys were light skinned. But because they're looked at as Black people question they're authenticity, because in the mind of many people you can't be Dominican if you're Black (which is incorrect)

Don't take my words out of context to push your agenda. This is what I said "JR Writer is the best one that actually repped his heritage". I didn't say any of them were "less" Dominican but I did say they didn't rep it. In AZ's case I was incorrect because he referenced it once or twice early on, but this whole "it doesn't matter everybody raps" thing certainly didn't apply when AZ first came out.

Do you remember how minorites from Staten Island felt when Wu-Tang came out? All the ones I knew associated themselves with that movement in some way, or had a story about how they were connected to one of the members.

Do you remember how Puerto Ricans/Latinos in NYC felt when Big Pun blew up?

How young Haitian kids in NYC felt when the Fugees blew up?

You cannot change your roots but it absolutely DOES have an influence if you rep it or not.

 

[King P]

Don't take my words out of context to push your agenda. This is what I said "JR Writer is the best one that actually repped his heritage". I didn't say any of them were "less" Dominican but I did say they didn't rep it. In AZ's case I was incorrect because he referenced it once or twice early on, but this whole "it doesn't matter everybody raps" thing certainly didn't apply when AZ first came out.

Do you remember how minorites from Staten Island felt when Wu-Tang came out? All the ones I knew associated themselves with that movement in some way, or had a story about how they were connected to one of the members.

Do you remember how Puerto Ricans/Latinos in NYC felt when Big Pun blew up?

How young Haitian kids in NYC felt when the Fugees blew up?

You cannot change your roots but it absolutely DOES have an influence if you rep it or not.

You implied it when you started off the post saying

All them dudes are half Dominican and never really repped it./QUOTE]
Sounds like you were saying they don't really count

 

[BaRRyG]

It's not silly, because it's not so obvious that people would know that these dues were half Dominican if someone hadn't told you.
There might be a young Dominican kid who is nice with the rhymes, that may not want to rap because he thinks it ain't cool for Dominican kids to rap.
But then he sees a Dominican cat getting busy & shining so he's not scared to get his shyt off. Rappers will rep damn near anything (a borough, a crew, a block, a gang) so why not rep your roots?

I really don't remember AZ talking about being Dominican in his raps, maybe this was later in his career.

Come to the heights bro, they out here, and they spittin too.

I'll go with AZ All-Time, but it's tough for me between him and Fabolous two of my G.O.A.T.'s...

Dave East the best one out right now though

For Jamaican rappers you got KRS, Biggie, Heavy D, Chubb Rock, Busta, Canibus

He Dominican?

 

[ℒℴѵℯJay ELECTUA]

that's a hard one..lol

AZ is dominicano..so easily him.

 

[King P]

He Dominican?

Yep he's Dominican & Bajan

 

[wizworld]

Come to the heights bro, they out here, and they spittin too.



He Dominican?

I hear ya but context is everything. It's 2016. I first heard AZ in 1994, Magic Juan in 1995, Fab in 1998, Juelz in 2000, JR Writer in 2003 etc...

 

[wizworld]

You implied it when you started off the post saying

So all that means is I give people MORE points for repping. Then I went on to explain why I feel that way. Personally I don't think my opinions on this can really be conflated with my overall views on nationality & race because "repping" is such a big part of hip-hop. A rappers backstory used to be really important in this game. If we were simply talking race & nationality in a regular, real world context then my views would likely be very similar to yours. But we are not, we're talking hip-hop.

 

[ISO]

Come to the heights bro, they out here, and they spittin too.



He Dominican?

 

[Yehuda]

Fabolous.

 

[SpacelySprockets]

Banks the best PR rapper thats all that matters

 

[A1aaa]

There might be a young Dominican kid who is nice with the rhymes, that may not want to rap because he thinks it ain't cool for Dominican kids to rap.

 

[ℒℴѵℯJay ELECTUA]

Banks the best PR rapper thats all that matters

Piss outa here!!!!

Pun eats that small fry and shyts out a twix bar.

 

[wizworld]

Are you confused? Don't be, what I said shouldn't be hard to understand.
So far in this post we have about 5-6 names. Again AZ came out in 94 and that was 22 years ago. So if in over 20 years of rap we have 5 or 6 names to choose from on this list.... that should tell you something.

 

[King P]

Banks the best PR rapper thats all that matters

 

[SpacelySprockets]

Piss outa here!!!!

Pun eats that small fry and shyts out a twix bar.

Banks>Big Pun idgaf

nikkas die and people act like they were perfect with unsurpassable talent all that lyrical miracle shyt was cool but he not fukking with the plk who could give u that style AND punchlines AND introspective shyt

not to mention the short catalog compared to godfather banks
coli nikkas gonna get mad over this one