Which rapper had the best prime?

[Ohene]

Nas or Biggie.

only thing keeping me from choosing prodigy is factoring sales.

on a bar for bar basis...how is Nas' prime touching Prodigy's? Nas my nikka but he peaked too early in my opinion. shyt was like a y=1/x function

 

[roxxthe96er]

It's gotta be Wayne. Dude was on every popular song for two years, EVERY damn one. Like if Wayne wasn't on the hook your shyt was NOT gonna pop. He was the best rapper alive AND he knew it AND he embraced it...

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Too bad he fukkin fell of tho...

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Why man, WHY?

 

[Billy Ocean]

only thing keeping me from choosing prodigy is factoring sales.

on a bar for bar basis...how is Nas' prime touching Prodigy's? Nas my nikka but he peaked too early in my opinion. shyt was like a y=1/x function

Prodigy was an absolute beast in the mid - late 90's but Nasir was ethereal. Dropped a brilliant debut album and went on to craft some of his best rhymes ever during his Escobar years (beginning around the Cuban Linx album).

 

[FreshAIG]

I thought this was about best in terms of popularity

 

[King Ming]

The Game

 

[mobbinfms]

Snoop Dogg 92-94

Snoop definitely should have been an option.

 

[the rhyme king]

easily pac imo the music from 1991-1996 he put and was going to put was ridiculous so yeah easily him imo

 

[Juggalo Fred]

me against the world - all eyez - makaveli

 

[mobbinfms]

Prodigy
The Infamous
Hell on Earth
Episodes of a Hustler
Various Guest Appearances leading up to Murda Muzik
Murda Muzik original version

 

[DeuceCypherUno]

Eminem from 99-2003 comes to mind

Killed guest appearances? check
Classic Albums? Check
Record Sales (double entrendre, don't ask me how)? Check
Peer Respect? Check
The Technical skills of a underground rapper? Check

 

[BmoreGorilla]

From the time Cube left NWA till Friday came out who had a better run? Also 50 had the game on lock for a few and basically had Ja Rule blackballed

 

[Trajan]

Biggie 95-97

Flow was on autopilot. Never spit a wack verse. Mad quotables.




Also Nas during his Escobar days....the It Was Written Era.......

I wouldn't be mad at any of these choices.

Spoiler

..................Yo, my mind is seeing through your design like blind fury
I shine jewelry sipping on crushed grapes,we lust papes
And push cakes inside the casket at Just wake
It's sickening, he just finished bidding upstate
And now the projects is talking that somebody gotta die shyt
It's logic as long as it's nobody that's in my clique
My man Smoke know how to expand coke in Mr. Coffee
Feds cost me two mill' to get the system off me
Life's a bytch but God-forbid the bytch divorce me
I'll be flooded with ice so hell fire can't scorch me

 

[BmoreGorilla]

Prodigy
The Infamous
Hell on Earth
Episodes of a Hustler
Various Guest Appearances leading up to Murda Muzik
Murda Muzik original version

Even though I love the Mobb Prodigy took too many Ls when they were at their peak. He also had one of the most spectacular falloffs ever

 

[Jparker]

On some left field shyt I wanna say Wiz khalifa he blesses the game with like 6 fire mixtapes then released rolling papers

 

[How Sway?]

I'd say Pac, DMX, 50, EM, and Wayne