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[astroturfing]

GZA
Ka
Prodigy
Cormega
Talib Kweli
Common
Black Thought
Guru
Nas
Greydon Square (i'm obsessed with his pro-science lyricism, i mean how many other rappers use terms like self-similar, Graham's number, gigaparsec etc and namedrop folks like Alan Guth and James Gates while sampling a Feynman quote??)

i'd like to include Rakim but he's way too hit or miss to me :/ absolutely love some tracks but then there's 20 other tracks that do nothing for me.

 

[easterislandhead]

Nas
Method man
Raekwon
The game
Az
Ra the rugged man
Vinnie Paz
Big pun
Biggie
Lupe fiasco

 

[shira]

Eminem
Supa Hot Fire
BIG
big pun

 

[StylusX]

No Order

Ras kass - Soul on ice changed my way of thinking, took me like months to get the album. Some small record shop in walthamstow finally got it for me. Remember just putting the album on and ready the lyrics in the cd booklet while the album played.
MF DOOM - When OD first dropped i wasn't sure about picking it up. Went into a record store in soho and doomsday was playing. Had to the buy the album then and there.
Biggie - Always preferred pac s a rapper but few months back Warning came on and i had to finally admit that big is better.
2pac - Gotta have pac in there one of the first rapper i started listing to back in 98.
Nas - Not much to say, legend.
Posdnuos - Gotta have pos, de la soul are my fav hip hop group.
Gza - Massive wu fan, Gza has always been my fav member.
Pharoahe Monch - Overall i would say the best rapper of all time. Dude has everything, flow, lyrics, cadence...everything!
J-Live - Played the hell out of The Best Part and All of the Above through my uni years. WIthout doubt the most creative (lyrically) rapper out there, i mean, just check 'All in together now'.
Slug - This is just my nerdy white side coming out here haha

 

[Lupercal]

Ice Cube
Method Man & Redman (still the best together)
Hopsin
Eminem
Vinnie Paz
2Pac
Dr. Dre
Nate Dogg
Busta Rhymes
Last one Common or Mos Def

 

[Smooth Operator]

Your top 10 is invalid if Redman and Ghostface are not listed.

(No order)
Redman
Ghostface
Raekwon
Method Man
Biggie
Pac
Nas
Andre 3000
Del
DMX
Rakim

 

[Iokis]

I'm not really into rap, so I can't even fill out 10 spaces. I don't actively seek it out, so to find a new rap artist I like requires an alchemical mix of randomly stumbling on something and it being something I can relate to. So far I got:

Roots Manuva
Atmosphere
El-P / Run The Jewels
Sage Francis
Aesop Rock

 

[Andrew Korenchkin]

I'm not really into rap, so I can't even fill out 10 spaces. I don't actively seek it out, so to find a new rap artist I like requires an alchemical mix of randomly stumbling on something and it being something I can relate to. So far I got:

Roots Manuva
Atmosphere
El-P / Run The Jewels
Sage Francis
Aesop Rock

You gotta venture out more, breh.

 

[bman94]

No Particular order:

Lupe Fiasco
Andre 3000
J. Cole
Chance the Rapper
Black Thought
Common
KiD CuDi
Childish Gambino
Kendrick Lamar
Q-Tip

Honorable Mention: Tyler the Creator, Joey Bada$$

 

[OldMan]

My favorite rapper is Mariah Carey, the others don't come close.

Har har

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=jhqZcGcwYV8

 

[K.Jack]

Black Thought
Ka
Roc Marciano
Common
Prodigy
Action Bronson
Method Man
MF DOOM
Redman
Big Pun
Ghostface Killah

I streamed this list off the dome in less than a minute, with little thought put into it, but I feel confident it's accurate.

 

[slyfox]

Eminem
Jay Z
Kanye
Kendrick
Lil Wayne
50 Cent
Game
J Cole
Travis Scott
Young Thug

Roughly my top ten at the moment

 

[Laieon]

Not super into rap, couldn't fill in 10 spots.

Childish Gambino
Eminem
Logic
Jon Lajoie
Lil Dicky
N.W.A
Run DMC

 

[Kamaji]

No order

Biggie
GZA
Prodigy
EL-P
Snoop
Guru
Common
Ghostface
Q-Tip
NAS

 

[Noaloha]

I don't listen to as much hip hop as I should, and I certainly haven't kept up with it over the last decade or whatever. And there are huuuge holes in my listening from the 90s, 00s, that should be standard but which I never gave time to (just examples, stuff like Biggie, 2Pac, Kanye 'big' discs - never went there).

So my picks are kind of just from my own wheelhouse of shit I found back when, and that I still listen to regularly. As such, I dunno if this holds up as a valid '10 of the best' sorta list. Let's say '10 of the best from what pockets of the genre I wandered across' perhaps.


No particular order,

Jeru the Damaja
Lyrics Born
GZA
Quasimoto/Madlib
Rodney P
Saul Williams
Imani
MF Doom
Phife
Abdominal

 

[Kopite]

No order:

Kendrick
Eminem
Biggie
Nas
Snoop Dogg
Killer Mike
Jay Z
J.Cole
Drake
Kanye

 

[MoodyFog]

Jay Z
Kool G Rap
Scarface
Biggie
Ice Cube
Rakim
Nas
Ghostface Killah
MF DOOM
Redman

 

[NoblesseOblige]

Me
Nas
Kurupt
Jada
Andre from OutKast
Tupac and Biggie
Jay-Z
Reggie

 

[Andrew Korenchkin]

Me
Nas
Kurupt
Jada
Andre from OutKast
Tupac and Biggie
Jay-Z
Reggie

Go on...

 

[BumRush]

- GZA
- Nas
- Tupac
- Biggie
- Big L
- Method Man
- Binary Star (One Be Lo and Senim Silla)
- Jay-Z
- Raekwon

Took until post 22 for a Big L nod???

 

[Andrew Korenchkin]

Took until post 22 for a Big L nod???

I have to put his debut in my top 25 or something. Such a brilliant album.

Just wish he would of put more albums out.