TOP 3 personal greatest wordsmiths (choose yours) :

[BlackDiBiase]

3. Nas

"i switch my motto instead of saying fukk tomorrow the buck that bought the bottle could have struck the lotto"

" i need a new ngga, for this black cloud to follow cos while its over me its too dark to see tomorrow"

"god painted me black, thanks for that, im original man with the mack move right in my hand".

2. William Shakespeare

"A rose by any other name, will still smell as sweet"

"Now is the winter of our discontent"

"All that glitters is not gold"

1. 2pac

"for quiet times disappear listen to the oceans, smoke my ports think my thoughts then its back to coasting"

"mama dont cry cos i aint happy here, i blew trial no smiles for a couple years"

"i thank the lord for my many blessings, survival from the battle of the smith and wessun"

 

[CoryMack]

Probably Don King and Michael Eric Dyson.

Them dudes have PhDs in empty rhetoric and bullshyt.

 

[MegaManX]

top one.

Zhuge Liang



Easily the best speaker in history and a military genius. He was so good, god himself had to stop him. He set a trap once to kill his enemy after 3 years of planning. He picked a spot that NEVER rains and trapped him in a fire trap. On that day where years of planning went in, it rained hard and saved his enemy, who would later take the emperor's seat.

shyt was so tragic, they made myths of how unlucky he was for centuries after. They did giant studies on the battlefield and concluded that the rain that day was a one in 80,000 chance of happening and had no signs of any rain at all for 2 years.

Oh how fukked up that was. That moment killed him. The stress of the situation took his life.

Do not watch this youtube video past the 10 minute mark or you will be completed entrenched in it and end up watching the 90 episodes straight through. I warned you... It is literally the best show i ever scene and puts game of thrones to shame

 

[King Poetic]

 

[Neuromancer]

Nas, William Gibson, can't think of a third.

 

[TL15]

Nas
Lupe
And this dude

 

[ThaEruditious]

Wasulu Jaco
Andre Benjamin

I'm stumped on the third one

 

[MJ Truth]

Nas
Loaded Lux
Langston Hughes

 

[NoMoreWhiteWoman2020]

Dre 3000
Nas
Ghostface killah

in no order.

non-rap? Malcolm x, MLK, Gwendolyn brooks

 

[Ziploc]

Ghost
James Baldwin
Nas
Saafir(boxcar sessions)

 

[tuckgod]

Rosebudd



Pretty Tony



Bell

 

[BaldingSoHard]

Andre 3k
Keifer Sutherland's character from Designated Survivor
G'kar from Babylon 5.

 

[Luke Cage]

Biggie
Scarface
Nas

 

[KodeBlue]

Nas
Loaded Lux
Langston Hughes

Loaded Lux was the first person I thought of when I read the OP.

Beloved

 

[Westbama Heartthrob]

A lotta good rappers have been said already, so I'mma go with

Gil Scott Heron

Curtis Mayfield

Stevie Wonder

The songwriting gawds