You must be either joking or ######ed. I'm going to guess joking, because I don't want to think I'm sitting at a keyboard and arguing with Life Goes On.
Probably my fav of all time would be Maestro Fresh-Wes (very underated IMO, had some dope stuff from the late 80's/early 90's aswell).
Rakim for sure would be up there, maybe even would top my list when I really think about it. Others I'd add: Guru. Kool G Rap, Gza/The Genius, LL in his early days was solid.
I'll end this post with some stuff from Maestro (he's canadian too!).
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They were so effing good I had real hope rap would start to do something originel again when they came out, instead they broke up and we got saddled with Black Eyed Peas.
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I changed the thread title to the subject hip hop in general since people are starting to post music in the thread and such. It was mainly meant to be a discussion type thread but posting music in it is not a bad idea. Here's some Eminem from back in the day:
