1. Tupac Shakur (da king of rap ***)
2. DMX (da best rapper alive)
3. Notorious B.I.G(he iight but not as sicc as TUPAC)
4. Eminem (rapped from his heart so he sold recordz like PAC)
5. Dr.Dre (da chronic made he one of da best rapperz ever)
6. Snoop Dogg (The Doggfather and Doggystyle made Snoop one of da best)
7. Chamillionaire (One of da best rapperz alive. He a rising star in da rap game and i think he gon take ova da rap game)
8. Kanye West (one da da best alive. Raps from heis heart and sells records like crazy lol)
9. Spider-Loc (crip from da westcoast, one da da best risin star in rap)
10. 50 Cent (GAY ASS *** *** DAT I HATE LOL HE WAS SICC THO WIT GET RICH OR DIE TRYIN BUT WIT DA MASSACRE HE A LIL *** )

"who am i tha best rapper alive"

-lil weezy

Tupac definitely belongs at number one. Eminem writes clever lyrics but most a good majority of his songs are cheesey. There are alot of  lyricists who top him because, although ems' lines are clever, he does not use very many litterary elements. A good lyricist writes songs that sound like they are about one thing but if you put some thought into them are about something completely different. Listen to a rapper named cormega who, in my oppinion, is hands down the best lyricist ever. Not the best ever but, to me, a distant first lyrically. Written and freestyling. Eminem is meerely top 5 or 10.  

Eminem is the best rapper of all time, no question say what u want..

It will take another few decades before people realize that he was the best.  props to em.

I think that we have covered the best rap artists if you run through everyones quotes. I think that we missed someone out who contributed massivly to hip hop/rap - Which is Chuck D.

I think we need to define what we mean by greatest, eg  . .

Flow - Biggie, Nas or Mob Deep.

Ability to make people stop and listen Chuck D

Ability to make people stop and listen and then act Tupac

Best story teller - oh gotta be Biggie

Best Selling Well love them or hate them 50 Cent or Jay Z - I would say 50 Cent coz other than the beatles no one else has had 4 track in the billboard chart at high positions at the same time and his stats for record sales on Get Rich monster anything Jay Z has done.

Greatest Rap About Anything U Like MC - I think Em and he has killer freestyles.

Most Intense - DMX

Mosty Promising Talent/Musical Ability - Mr West

Longest Serving Talent - KRS1 - Even some of the greats have bitten his *** over the decades.

There are loads of others out there that are great from past and present like Easy E, Big Pun, Big L, Big Daddy Kane ICE T.

My personal has to be BIGGIE - He freestyle was killer, his story telling always kept you begging for the next line, smooth flows weather it was quick spitting or slow'd up and live he was in a league of his own.

Kp - Out

Ja-Mez wrote:

Anonymous wrote: I definetly say Tupac is the best. Explanation: He had a reason for his music, because his lyrics weren't about ho's or cars but things that happen and really draw you in. Kids to white boys to even old people liked Tupac. That's what made him as real as he was. And he always was down to die for what he represented. So my top 10: Tupac Eminem Nas Dr.Dre Young Buck Kanye West Snoop Dogg LL Cool J Lloyd Banks 50 Cent (when he had serious lyrics) sorry, exaclty when did 50 Cent have serious lyrics? And to the rest of you prattling on about how other people are stupid to put Nas so high, and then put 50 in your top 10--that makes me laugh, because DO YOU FEEL THE IRONY?! 50 should be nowhere near your top 100, even--I've said this about 80 times in 40 different places on this forum. And to all the Nas haters, find about an hour and a half of free time, and just listen to Illmatic, beginning to end. Forget God's Son, Nastramadus, Stillmatic....just listen to Illmatic. If you can't appreciate something so beautiful, if after listening to Illmatic you still believe fools like Shaq--SHAQ?! Which anonymous fool put Shaq there?--or 50 or Lloyd Banks or Young Buck or Mike Jones are better than Nas, you really can't appreciate rap.

1.MIKE Jooooooooonezz (jk for everyone who put 50 Cent)

1. Tupac

2. Nas

3. Eminem

4. Eric B. and Rakim

5. A Tribe Called Quest

ok go listen to a few songs: Almost anything by 2pac, all of illmatic and ether on stillmatic, Rock Bottom and I'm Shady, Eric B. is President and Let the Rhythm Hit 'Em, Can I Kick It and Excursions.

I would put these up against any Young Buck, 50 cent TI or lil wayne(????!!!) song