Top 10 most influential rappers of the 00's

Who's in your top 10 list of the most influential rappers of the 2000's

You could name 'em in numerical order or in no particular order.

What do you mean?

Who has had the most influence that has come to light in the 00s? Or who in the 00s is the most influential right now?

I think a lot of the West Coast style MCs have caused what has become mainstream hip hop nowadays, sadly. Nowadays? I don't know, I don't keep track. Obviously people aspire to be like 50 Cent or The Game, I'm not sure anyone is really influential in hip hop, with hip hop anymore.

-AC

Originally posted by Alpha Centauri
What do you mean?

Who has had the most influence that has come to light in the 00s? Or who in the 00s is the most influential right now?

I think a lot of the West Coast style MCs have caused what has become mainstream hip hop nowadays, sadly. Nowadays? I don't know, I don't keep track. Obviously people aspire to be like 50 Cent or The Game, I'm not sure anyone is really influential in hip hop, with hip hop anymore.

-AC

Yea meaning who, this decade, has been the most influential and has shone the most and/or has had the greatest impact in the game this decade. He/she could come from any era. (90's for example.) But the impact had to happen in this decade.

Then the West Coasters and all their rhyming about frivolous things with a penchant for materialism.

It's essentially ruined mainstream hip hop, to me.

-AC

Originally posted by Alpha Centauri
Then the West Coasters and all their rhyming about frivolous things with a penchant for materialism.

It's essentially ruined mainstream hip hop, to me.

-AC

Originally posted by Alpha Centauri
Then the West Coasters and all their rhyming about frivolous things with a penchant for materialism.

It's essentially ruined mainstream hip hop, to me.

-AC

Yea i couldn't come up with a list either. I guess if i thought about it.

I'd probably place 50 cent in the top 3 or 2, as garbage as he is to me cause I can't deny that has had a significant impact in the game this decade.

And ruined mainstream hip hop? I never knew mainstream hip hip was triumphant. Well, unless you like it, then that's you.

Triumphant, quality-wise, meaning.

Originally posted by FistOfThe North
Yea i couldn't come up with a list either. I guess if i thought about it.

I'd probably place 50 cent in the top 3 or 2, as garbage as he is to me cause I can't deny that has had a significant impact in the game this decade.

And ruined mainstream hip hop? I never knew mainstream hip hip was triumphant. Well, unless you like it, then that's you.

As overrated as I feel they are, there was Biggie, 2Pac, Wu-Tang Clan, and a lot of the early 00s mainstream MCs who had promising debuts but then went downhill.

Ludacris, Joe Budden (Who has seemingly fallen off the face of the Earth) etc. Not amazing artists, but promising. It's a shame really.

-AC

Well, rapper, or hip hop artist? There is a difference.

Top ten is an incredibly pointless question.

As far as I know, I'd say Jay-Z is the most influential of the 21's century thus far.

Originally posted by Dusty
Well, rapper, or hip hop artist? There is a difference.

Does the thread title not say rapper?

Rappers are hip hop artists usually, that's what they do. Rappers make hip hop.

-AC

Originally posted by Alpha Centauri
As overrated as I feel they are, there was Biggie, 2Pac, Wu-Tang Clan, and a lot of the early 00s mainstream MCs who had promising debuts but then went downhill.

-AC

Whoa. You consider Biggie, Pac, and WuTang overrated? Then with that, I couldn't imagine whom you'd think is/was underrated but hey, to each his own, no matter how astonishing the thought or view is, i guess.

Originally posted by Alpha Centauri
Does the thread title not say rapper?

Rappers are hip hop artists usually, that's what they do. Rappers make hip hop.

-AC

Originally posted by FistOfThe North
Whoa. You consider Biggie, Pac, and WuTang overrated? Then with that, I couldn't imagine whom you'd think is/was underrated but hey, to each his own, no matter how astonishing the thought or view is, i guess.

I worded it wrong, I meant Biggie and 2Pac, not Wu-Tang. My bad.

Originally posted by Bardock42
Or rock with RATM....or shit...with Linkin Park

Yeah, of course, but primarily rappers make hip hop.

-AC

I dislike most mainstream rap, and my bias will not let me answer this question.

Originally posted by Violent2Dope
I dislike most mainstream rap, and my bias will not let me answer this question.

Well how about non-mainstream or underground rappers. Your top 10 in that catagory for this decade in term of being the most influential.

He's going to say ICP, despite them being entirely irrelevant to this discussion.

-AC

Originally posted by FistOfThe North
Who's in your top 10 list of the most influential rappers of the 2000's

You could name 'em in numerical order or in no particular order.

None. Hip hop was a phase.

Originally posted by Alpha Centauri
He's going to say ICP, despite them being entirely irrelevant to this discussion.

-AC

That doesn't mean influential.

You can't say "ICP" for every answer.

-AC

Originally posted by Alpha Centauri
That doesn't mean influential.

You can't say "ICP" for every answer.

-AC