you little #######s don't know nothing, Grandmaster Flash who brought social conscience to the genre and paved the way for NWA and run DMC that allowed rap to use more than just funk and soul beats and thus paved the way for the harder edge that gangster rap needed, without them you'd be listening to Nickelback.
I'd also put the Beasties in their as well, they have outlasted everyone, constantly changed and experimented their sound, and it is actually their sound, it isn't some cut up bit of 60's funk with some purile teenage poem badly fitted over the top.
Gil Scot Heron is without doubt top 5 although he would probably belt anyone that called him a rapper as he was on record as thinking the genre a waste of time.
Last edited by afc wimbledon; 01-21-2012 at 12:31 PM.
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