List your top 25 rappers of the 80s, in order

[FreshAIG]

None of y'all got Jay-Z in y'all top 25?

Jay got like 3 verses in the 80s lol

 

[Surreal]

Jay got like 3 verses in the 80s lol

 

[Soymuscle Mike]

None of y'all got Jay-Z in y'all top 25?

He's barely in my 90's top 25

 

[Homeboy Runny-Ray]

None of y'all got Jay-Z in y'all top 25?

hell no.

but JAZ-O is on mines.

 

[feelosofer]

Hmm tough but lets see

KRS One
Melle Mel
Rakim
Slick Rick
Kool G Rap
LL Cool J
Grandmaster Caz
Kurtis Blow
DMC
MC Shan
The DOC
Kool Moe Dee
Big Daddy Kane
Ice Cube
Jahlil
Biz Markie
Markie D
Ice T
Mc Lyte
Queen Latifah
Kool Keith
Special Ed
Ced Gee
Parrish Smith
King Tee
Run

 

[Homeboy Runny-Ray]

to @feelosofer

FINALLY, a list that has DMC ranked higher than Run.

I even saw one list where Run was listed while DMC wasnt mentioned at all.

 

[Erratic415]

How old are you nikkas?

Way past being old for a karate class

 

[Pack2]

Rakim
LL Cool J
KRS-One
Slick Rick
Big Daddy Kane
Kool G Rap
Ice Cube
Chuck D
Fresh Prince
The DOC
Parrish Smith
DMC
Melle Mel
Grandmaster Caz
Kool Keith
Scarface
Special Ed
Heavy D
Biz Markie
MC Shan

 

[Pack2]

How old are you nikkas?

Old enough to have bought some of these on cassette when they dropped

 

[EBK String]

 

[Homeboy Runny-Ray]

37. I was a baby during most of this era but I was still listening to rap and exposed to a lot of music because my cousins would play it all the time when they baby sat me. But then, of course, you get older and go back and really understand what nikkas was saying.

THIS

the best thing about it was, most of the music was relatively clean. so just about everything was played freely, even if there was a lil bit of cursing in it.

i ended up having my own lil collection of hand-me-downs before i even started school. there was really just a short-list of rappers that i couldnt listen to: schooly d, Ice, T, NWA and a couple others.

i was allowed to listen to my mom's D.O.C. tape but couldnt touch the NWA jawn. BUT ON THE LOW, i would turn the volume down and bump the hell out of the last cut, which had NWA going off on it. i guess she forgot about that song at the end. i always found that oversight funny.

 

[Kliq_Souf]

Rakim
LL Cool J
KRS-One
Slick Rick
Big Daddy Kane
Kool G Rap
Ice Cube
Chuck D
Fresh Prince
The DOC
Parrish Smith
DMC
Melle Mel
Grandmaster Caz
Kool Keith
Scarface
Special Ed
Heavy D
Biz Markie
MC Shan

oooooh i forgot Ed

 

[Nasir The God Son]

37. I was a baby during most of this era but I was still listening to rap and exposed to a lot of music because my cousins would play it all the time when they baby sat me. But then, of course, you get older and go back and really understand what nikkas was saying.

Pops is 41 and I asked him to name his top 25 from the 80s and he was like G rap, Rakim, Slick, Kane and then he gave up lol. After that he proceeded to name 100 people from the 90’s.

 

[Taadow]

As far as who I fucced with most:

1. Big Daddy Kane
2. Slick Rick
3. Ice Cube
4. Heavy D
5. LL Cool J
6. KRS-One
7. Grandmaster Melle Mel
8. The Fresh Prince
9. Ice-T
10. Brother Marquis (2 Live Crew)
11/12. (depends on the track) E-Double-E / PMD (EPMD)
13. Too $hort
14. MC Ren
15. Kool Moe Dee
16/17. (depends on the track) Rapper Jalil / Extacy (Whodini)
18. Rakim
19. MC Hammer (shut up)
20. Egyptian Lover
21. MC Lyte
22/23. (depends on the track) Run / D.M.C. (Run-D.M.C.)
24/25. (depends on the track) Prince Markie Dee / Cool Rock-Ski (The Fat Boys)

 

[Homeboy Runny-Ray]

the '80s was just as good as the '90s.

arguably better.