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The Best Rapper Alive, Every Year Since 1979 (Complex)
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The Media scene in V is for Vendetta is the clue
they should come back and do one strictly for the groups, so we can chit on that too, and they can get their hits & $$$.
this list wasnt bad until they got to the 2000s. its actually easy for people to agree on lists like these. thats why its so painful to look at the 2000s portion.
THE ONES I DISAGREE WITH.
1983 & 1984: at least one of those years should go to DMC. or they should just have run dmc up there together. i hate how history is now being told as if DMC was some sort of complimentary rapper. yes, Run was the star & the main one that sold the group but DMC was THE MAN. to put it in '90s standards, Run was method man but DMC was raekwon.
1986: i'd give it to run dmc again.......or maybe ll cool j again?
i think theyre jumping the gun a tad bit and purposely put KRS there so that he, rakim, slick rick & kane could all have a year on the list without anyone getting their toes stepped on. chuck d still got snubbed thru that era of years.
1991: should be ICE CUBE again
treach, ll cool j, chuck d and maybe some others should be mentioned before q-tip. low-key, he wasnt even the nicest on the mic in his group either.
1992: i'd give it to KOOL G. RAP
no disrespect to redman but they know theyre reaching with that pick.
1997: should be MASTER P
aint nobody even mentioned him yet. my my my, how history has been revised.
1999: should be DMX again OR JUVENILE
DMX clearly was still out-shining jay. he had the east crown still and arguably still had the whole map........but JUVENILE had a HUGE year too.
2000: should be JAY-Z
eminem never had a year. they need to stop with the blatant white-washing. this is the 1st year i give to jay. and he can keep 2001. thats 2 years for camel.
2002: i'd give it to NAS again
year was wide-open really. might as well give it to nas for a 2nd time.
2004: i'd give it to CAMRON
lol @ T.I. being on top. that dude was running around trying to pick a battle with lil flip and trying mad hard to be seen. then he ended up getting demolished by ludacris and dropped that weak "urban legend" album.
2006: i'd give this one to T.I. actually.
he didnt have the best album like the hype says, but he certainly had the best year..........he got destroyed by ludacris again tho.
2007 - 2013
i'd give a couple years to LIL WAYNE. he clearly was the most popular in all facets of the game, even tho people knew he wasnt really the best.
give a year to GUCCI MANE. i'd probably throw BOOSIE a year, and possibly a 2nd year to JEEZY. hell, kanye might can sneak in for 2007.
RICK ROSS has had at least 3 years & counting. this is his era.
i really dont care like that to break '07-13 down. this is when rap died, especially mainstream rap which became pop. and complex' version of this list caters towards that. plus they started blocking niccas out the game, which is the reason why all these years look identical. being on top of those years dont mean chit b. but congrats to the people i listed anyway.
kool moe dee was an old school rapper in the mid-late '80s breh. what made him a goat contender is the early '80s stuff with the treacherous three. the fact that he managed to stick around thru the early '90s just added to his legend, being the 1st rapper with ridiculous longevity - before LL did it.
puff & mase were blowing up anyway. biggie was alive when "cant nobody hold me down" & the original benjamins blew up, and he was nowhere near those records aside from possibly ghostwriting some of puff's stuff.
and lets keep it real, if big didnt die, "life after death" would not be held anywhere near the same regard. he wouldve caught alot of flack and been labeled a sellout.
This post is piff.
This... i have no problem with the list and it makes since to how much th use artists were popping in their respected years.actually a pretty good list but u already know some bitter nikkas gonna be pickin it apart with the generic "fukk complex" comments because their favorite no ones weren't listed
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nikka do you even be on a the streets to make these dumb ass assertions. Right wing ass nikka
Never talk about the music tho...
nikka do you even be on a the streets to make these dumb ass assertions. Right wing ass nikka
"on a the streets"
the music is okay at best.
you dont want to talk about the music. trust.
This that cac shyt I be talking about. Lames wanna point grammatical errors and shyt from auto correct
"on a the streets"
the music is okay at best.
you dont want to talk about the music. trust.
lol @ calling somebody a cac while defending a white people rapper to the death.
aint you a 18 year old white bul anyway? f*ck outta here.
that's your own bias talking. Don't be in here acting like your bullshyt is facts. Corny ass Jiving like he a street nikka. fukk outta here
fukk complex
that's your own bias talking. Don't be in here acting like your bullshyt is facts. Corny ass Jiving like he a street nikka. fukk outta here
stay outta my culture, vulture.
According to you. Everybody that likes Kendrick is white. Which means damn near half of The Coli is white. According to you, only white people praise his music. According to you, you be on the streets everyday to accurate record what gets played to make your dumb ass assertions. According to your stats, you talk alot of shyt and nobody really fukks with you.
stay outta my culture, vulture.
Corny ass nikka
you have no clue about anything, do you?THE MAJORITY of the coli is white. just like you.
and i never said everybody that listens to kendrick is white. but its painfully obvious who the vast majority of his listeners are.
and then you go on to use the most typical suburbanite deflection "argument" in the book.
Negged for being wrong as hell about my race
THE MAJORITY of the coli is white. just like you.
and i never said everybody that listens to kendrick is white. but its painfully obvious who the vast majority of his listeners are.
and then you go on to use the most typical suburbanite deflection "argument" in the book.
I'm white?....
@AkaDemiK am I white?