Master Ace, Jay-Z, Nas, old Rakim, Melle Mel, KRS 1, old school Ice-T, some Common.

Is Lauryn Hill considered a hip hop artist?

nas, big, styles p (the entire lox actually), kool g rap, az, ghostface & atcq are some of my favs.

Immortal Technique
KRS-one
Paris
PE
Outkast
Common

Rakim
Baby Professor/Brother J
Trugoy
Posdnous
Q-Tip
Lakim Shabazz
Common
Mos Def
Geechie Suede
Andre 3000
Chuck D
KRS1
Shock G/Humpty Hump
Pac
Guru
Kanye

does anyone like Vanilla Ice? Queen sampled from one of his songs!

If there is one rapper I hate, it's DMX! (Truth!)

I forgot about Cee-lo.

Tupac
DMX
Nas
Bizzy Bone/Bone Thugz N Harmony
Kool G Rap
Outkast
Ice Cube
Big L
Big Pun

Nas
AZ
2Pac
Kanye
Jay-Z
Q-tip

I like Lil Wayne too.

Busta.....I can't believe I left HER out.

strange ive never liked solo hip-hop artist or rappers

I tend to lean towards groups (Digable Planets,The Roots,Tribe,ect)

Lil Wayne
Kanye
Lupe Fiasco

dammme said:

I dig some Lyte.

Tupac Shakur

The ones that could actually throwdown and weren't a bunch of dull dead asses. Folks like.....

Egyptian Lover
Soul Sonic Force
Felix and Jarvis
Dr. Jeckyll and Mr. Hyde
Divine Sounds
Twilight 22
Pretty Tony
Freestyle
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five
Whodini
Sugarhill Gang
The Sequence
Run DMC
Rockmaster Scott and the Dynamic Three
LA Dream Team
JJ Fad
Pretty Tony
Sir Mix-A-Lot
Luke
2 Live Crew
MC Hammer
Oaktown 357
C & C Music Factory
Tag Team
Duice
Quad City DJs
69 Boyz
Dis N Dat

vainandy said:

lol....your entire list is "retired"

Graycap23 said:

OWNED!

In Andrea's defence though, I think he's the only cat I know who'll admit in digging Hammer thats guts.

Not fave artists, but fave hip-hop producers..

Quik


J Dilla


James Poyser


Tip


And the musicians who played in the early records from the Sugarhill label.
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vainandy said:

Everybody in bold - wack-ass rappers . Now, if you mean as far as "club" shit, then yeah, I COULD see that. But from an lyrically point of view - Fuck nah . C'mon, dawg? JJFad? Oaktown 357?

If music ain't appropriate for either the club or the bedroom, there's no purpose for it to be made in the first place other than for folks to sit around bobbing their heads to some dull shit and rave about the lyrics in a song.

Hell yeah. Ain't no shame, hell, Hammer could jam and his shit wasn't slow enough to throw on the turntable and mix with a slow ass opera record.

vainandy said:

So you're more into the "music" than the content/lyrics. Then you should ONLY listen to instrumentals . For me, - in terms of hip hop - I have to be satisfied lyrically/content-wise/music-wise. If it bangs at the club, then so be it, but that's for the club hoes. But if it's "about" something and it bumps, then it's certainly all good. Why rap if they don't have shit to say nor how to say it?

I don't care for hip hop much, but I like Kanye West, Timbaland, Nas, 2pac, Biggie, and Jay Z, LL Cool J is okay too.

I used to love hip hop/rap in the 90's but more for the songs than the artists

I could care less about lyrics. It ain't lyrics that shake the ass. That's what music is for anyway. As for rap, it's best days were when the lyrics were "party over here", "party over there", "rock rock to the planet rock, don't stop". They not only were jamming with the music but their lyrics were talking about how hard they could jam which is a much more interesting subject than the bullshit that's been in the lyrics of the last 15 years. As for hearing a story in the lyrics, I'll turn on "As The World Turns" if I want a story. And as for a rapper being "poetic", hell, I grew up only liking cool shit. The cool folks were out partying and shaking ass and the dorks and geeks were the ones at home reading poetry.
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Talib Kweli, Common, and Q-Tip.

vainandy said:

Naw, the "cool" ones were frontin' by doing BOTH! But you still my dawg, VA!
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