nikkas talkin bout putting these characters in a top 5 before rick ross???
But who's really playing or talkin about that Ross album a few months after. He's not Sade. He doesn't just drop music and eat off of it for years, all of the while making everybody else step their game up off break, and then fall back and do whatever. Ross never did that
He made everybody step their Instrumental game up... which counts for something. It counts so much that he rounds out the Top 11.
No P.C. shyt, no included for "everybody" awards (aka throw a random name in Top Whatever Countdown just to showcase a hero for somebody who feels voiceless; followme). shyt authentic to the core B.
Top 10 is somewhat subjective becuz there's too many factors to throw in there, too much controversy to debate, too many dynamics to exaggerate in conversation. In other words, after 5 it gets really tricky if you're trying to be specifically in order. These are the safest and most importantly
UNIVERSAL choices On one hand, how can you have a Top 10 and not have included (the O.G.) Gucci Mane, and on the other hand how can you have a Top 10 and not include Black Thought? The two are arguably some of the most influential people in our culture but are known & respected for totally different things
(almost opposite of each other even though they're talking about the same things in retrospect).
Which is why Ross isn't in the Top 5. Ross makes great music. But everybody's not into The Frank Lucas Story. Some people actually wanna hear something Mature and geniunely prefer that approach to those types of stories than the way Ross do. Great Writer, Excellent Ear For Music, Intoxicating Aura, but the way the Business has been Stretched out and converted over the past few years along with it's constant "evolving", he just doesn't cut it.
