Top 5 Rappers by Region: East Coast, West Coast, Midwest, and the Dirty South

[Omar 382]

@Bloody Brian Burke
@Lions=TeHsUcKs
@StanMarsh51
@broncosmitty
@Brasky
@Edonidd
@SJ76
@Cyder
@CatsTopPac
@DetroitDevil

(if any of you want to be taken off this list, just let me know. I just use it because you guys are the only people I know of on t'Hoop that give a shit about hip-hop).

Pretty simple thread. Give your overall top 5 rappers from the different main regions of America. Here's my list:

East Coast:
1. Nas
2. The Notorious B.I.G.
3. Prodigy
4. AZ
5. Big L

West Coast:
1. The Game
2. Schoolboy Q
3. Kendrick Lamar
4. Snoop Dogg
5. Ice Cube

Midwest:
1. Eminem
2. Lupe Fiasco
3. Kid Cudi
4. Tech N9ne
5. Kanye West

South:
1. T.I.
2. Jeezy
3. Andre 3000
4. Lil Wayne
5. Ludacris

 

[DetroitDevil]

Make sure you leave Pac where hes at. Cube is #1 in the west. An east coast list with out Rakim is pretty Weakl

 

[Omar 382]

Some notes....

Toughest spots for me were Game over Q, Ice Cube over 2Pac (not that I'm a huge Pac fan), Tech N9ne over Kanye West (if we included work as a producer, I might put him on there), and Luda over Rick Ross and Scarface (I recognize that Scarface is the better and far more accomplished rapper, but I feel like I don't know his discography well enough to put him over Luda, who I've listened to since I was 12).

Deepest region in terms of talent is the south. But overall, I like east coast hip-hop the best. Anything made in NY from 1995-2005 is fire. Today, I'll take the west coast though.

 

[Omar 382]

Make sure you leave Pac where hes at. Cube is #1 in the west.

Lol, did you realize that Pac is (probably) my #6?

 

[huskers1217]

@Bloody Brian Burke
@Lions=TeHsUcKs
@StanMarsh51
@broncosmitty
@Brasky
@Edonidd
@SJ76
@Cyder
@CatsTopPac
@DetroitDevil

(if any of you want to be taken off this list, just let me know. I just use it because you guys are the only people I know of on t'Hoop that give a shit about hip-hop).

Pretty simple thread. Give your overall top 5 rappers from the different main regions of America. Here's my list:

East Coast:
1. Nas
2. The Notorious B.I.G.
3. Prodigy
4. AZ
5. Big L

West Coast:
1. The Game
2. Schoolboy Q
3. Kendrick Lamar
4. Snoop Dogg
5. Ice Cube

Midwest:
1. Eminem
2. Lupe Fiasco
3. Kid Cudi
4. Tech N9ne
5. Kanye West

South:
1. T.I.
2. Jeezy
3. Andre 3000
4. Lil Wayne
5. Ludacris

ill get back to you.

 

[Omar 382]

Make sure you leave Pac where hes at. Cube is #1 in the west. An east coast list with out Rakim is pretty Weakl

Nah, I recognize that he's regarded as one of the greatest. But the only songs I can name from him are "When I B On Tha Mic" and "Guess Who's Back," so I can't include him for my personal list. But FWIW, Scarface's "Guess Who's Back" will always be the "Guess Who's Back."

 

[huskers1217]

Nah, I recognize that he's regarded as one of the greatest. But the only songs I can name from him are "When I B On Tha Mic" and "Guess Who's Back," so I can't include him for my personal list. But FWIW, Scarface's "Guess Who's Back" will always be the "Guess Who's Back."

your age is definitely showin here young buck.

 

[Omar 382]

I feel like the east coast has a ton of guys who I "love" to listen to, but aren't "great" rappers necessarily: Jada, 50, Cam, Beanie, Juelz Santana, Havoc. Even Styles P could be included on that list.

 

[Tai Chi≈Surfing]

Rap isn't considered music.

Please take your thread to the general, or rather to the "entertainment" forum.
You'll be able to get many more views and comments over there.
I'm sure one of the mods will be happy to oblige.

Thanks in advance.

 

[Omar 382]

your age is definitely showin here young buck.

 

[Omar 382]

Rap isn't considered music.

Please take your thread to the general, or rather to the "entertainment" forum.
I'm sure one of the mods will be happy to oblige.

Thanks in advance.

Shut the fuck up.

Thanks in advance.

 

[Tai Chi≈Surfing]

Shut the fuck up.

Thanks in advance.

This is the MUSIC forum, dickface.

GTFO!!!

 

[Omar 382]

This is the MUSIC forum, dickface.

GTFO!!!

Jesus Christ. It's like you have no understanding of the history of rock and roll

 

[Tai Chi≈Surfing]

Jesus Christ. It's like you have no understanding of the history of rock and roll

Go on, kid...keep proving how willfully ignorant you are.

 

[Omar 382]

Holy shit. This Yoga guy has serious problems.

 

[Edonidd]

I'm not all that up to date on modern hip hop, and you apparently don't have any knowledge of the past. So i doubt we'll see things the same way, but I can't even conceive of a world where 2Pac and Jay-Z aren't considered top 5 all tine from any region, and you don't have either even in the top 5 of their own region. And I've never been that big into the East Coast N.Y. sound. Besides Biggie and Jay-Z I would probably just put in a couple Wu Tang guys, or maybe DMX. I'd put Outkast as a group as #1 in the south, but if you separate them, Big Boi still has gotta be on the list. If groups count Bone has to be there for the widwest, maybe Bizzy solo. I'd put Twista right there next to Tech N9ne, and Obie Trice was always a personal favorite.

 

[Chewbaccer]

Holy shit. This Yoga guy has serious problems.

I hate rap as well. Just gonna get that out there in the open.

But, now you know why yoga-derping is pretty well universally mocked.

 

[Omar 382]

I hate rap as well. Just gonna get that out there in the open.

But, now you know why yoga-derping is pretty well universally mocked.

I always knew he was an annoying idiot. The insanity bit is approaching @Retroram52 levels though.

 

[Chewbaccer]

I always knew he was an annoying idiot. The insanity bit is approaching @Retroram52 levels though.

You ever reach a verdict on Hank 3?

 

[Omar 382]

You ever reach a verdict on Hank 3?

Ah shit. I remember I had like two songs left and then forgot about it. I enjoyed what I heard thus far a hell of a lot more than I anticipated. I remember I liked the "Dick in Dixie" one the best. I wouldn't say I loved it, or would listen to the album itself specifically again, but it was probably the most accessible "country" album I've ever heard, and I didn't mind it. I know that's not a ringing endorsement, but this is truly the first country I've heard outside of Cash (if you count him) or Florida Georgia Line or whatever the hell they're called.

I've got to do a couple assignments due Friday soon, but if I ever finish the album in its totality, I'll slap on a quantified rating for 'ya.