I think it's time we make a definitive coli top 10 MC list: Round 2

[mobbinfms]

I don't kno breh. I think if someone like TI gets in the poll we will have a whole different age group voting than what it's usually been

Wayne didn't do well though.
Are you gonna do a poll with Kendrick and Drake?

 

[BmoreGorilla]

Wayne didn't do well though.
Are you gonna do a poll with Kendrick and Drake?

honestly they might be top 50

 

[mobbinfms]

well, I knew you would reply and typically respect ur posting.

Including Return of the Mac which while it was better than his previous work, it PALED in comparison to early P. Cats just were happy he was literally rhyming again.

P's fall off was huge because of how amazing he was in his peak. He's never come close to rhyming like that consistently over an album since. That being said, he somehow found a way to be captivating on the mic over top flight production from ALC. Yeah, he wasn't rhyming nearly as well as he was during his prime. But he was rhyming well and the album was crazy.

Him being a fraud that has been exposed factors in kid. It makes his music disingenuous.

How is he a fraud? Or more of a fraud than Frank White, Nas Escobar, etc.

Finally, my stat was based on 5 years out of 95. NoW if u want I can include 93 and 94, but I assure u..that will only make that percentage go down.

Yeah but how many rappers been both elite on the mic and still dropping crazy music?

 

[HustlerOfVirginiA]

Nikkas on here really think Pac is better than hov

 

[mobbinfms]

don't think Nas has an album as good as/better than LI other than Illmatic and IWW

It's been a long time since I listened to Letha Injection, but I would put Stillmatic, Lost Tapes and Life is Good over it.

 

[mobbinfms]

Cube was on a run and as soon as he stopped, he never quite recovered. Should have kept going.

Cube's run stopped when Predator dropped. That's when it was obvious he had lost a step.
That and Lethal Injection are still great albums though.

 

[mobbinfms]

They better than I Am the West.



Consistency matters. Nas been dropping dope sh!t since Illmatic. Life is Good got a great reception and he still drops verses that people name drop as best of the year. Can't say that about Cube.

Exactly. His verses on Ross and Game's albums last year

 

[BmoreGorilla]

Nobody two rappers in hip hop history had ever talked as tough as Hav and P.

Plus they made they made it sound so authentic

 

[mobbinfms]

Cube set the bar real high for himself with his first 3 albums. The one thing I noticed is that the less angry he became the quality of his music went down. Him being so involved in the East vs West thing was kinda corny

I liked the Westside Connection album. I think that was a good period for Cube because he was still spitting, he had some motivation and WC keeping him on his toes and trying to saw his whole fukking head off

 

[W.I.Z.E.]

Nobody two rappers in hip hop history had ever talked as tough as Hav and P.

Plus they made they made it sound so authentic

M.O.P. wud like a word with u.

 

[mobbinfms]

idk how the hell you made it a Billy Ocean quote, it was mine

and anyway, if you think Laugh Now, Cry Later and the War & Peace material and Raw Footage 'suck', I don't know what to tell you. Early 90s Cube spoiled y'all, and now if any album didn't live up to the first 4, it is considered a failure. Nah bro. Only one album sucked (Rep that West) and the other was distinctly mediocre (one of the War & Peace discs)

The War & Peace albums were meh.
I haven't even heard a full Cube album since then so I won't comment on them, but the fact that, as big anCube fan as I was in the 90s, and I have no interest in listening to those 2000s albums says a lot.
Those NWA reunion songs he had were nice though

 

[W.I.Z.E.]

Cube was a beast in the late 80's - 93....Since then, he hasn't been popping.

 

[mobbinfms]

Anyway if you wanna argue Nas is more consistent, sure. But that's only because Nas has been on an unspectacular trail much of his career, whereas Cube has more spectacular works, so his peak was higher and anything else was destined to be a more substantial drop off than it is for Nas.

This is crazy breh. No rapper has ever had a higher standard to live up to then Nas after Illmatic. There was literally a period on this board where every week there was some inane thread comparing some pedestrian album to Illmatic.

 

[mobbinfms]

Hmm their top 5 combined I'd say

1. Illmatic
2. Death Certificate
3. AmeriKKKa's Most Wanted
4. The Predator
5. It Was Written

4 and 5 are close in quality I'd say

The Lost Tapes and Lethal Injection are both highly recommended albums (by me) as well

1. Illmatic
2. DC
3. IWW
4. AMW
5. Stillmatic

 

[BmoreGorilla]

M.O.P. wud like a word with u.

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