kurupt (in his prime) > your favorite rapper

Rare fact, did you know that Krayzie Bone did the hook for 2 of Amerikaz Most Wanted?

LoL. I completely agree.



Yes, indeed.

Kurupt is indeed a good rapper, his affiliations with Snoop and the rest of the Dogg Pound helped his career greatly. His production is great, All About U for example, one of the greatest songs in West Coast Rap history. Deny it if you want, but ask anyone who listens to rap, chances are they have heard that song.

Saying Kurupt in his prime is better than our favourite rappers is pure bullcrapas that is like saying Kurupt is the best MC there has ever been, depending on who our favourite rappers are. I like others disagree that Kurupt is the best, he certainly may be up there with some of the WC greats and lyrically he is a machine. However there are better. Like many have said, Pac, Biggie, NWA and others such as the Wu, all rank above him imo.

Papoose completely owns that bitch in freestyle, speed, actually intelligent lyrics or any other category you can think of.

I like Kurupt and all and yes in his prime he had a real sick flow, but my favorite rapper is 2Pac and no one will ever be Tupac great status.

Nas-

War is necessary to my *****z in chains
From Greene to Sing-Sing, I'm wantin y'all to know one thing
The hardest thing is to forgive, but God does
Even if you murdered or robbed, yeah it's wrong, but God loves
Take one step toward him, he takes two toward you
Even when all else fail, God support you
I done it, got God Son on my stomach
My heart and my lungs was affected from Henny's and gettin blunted
Do your body right and it loves you back
You only get one life, and yo because of that
I'm still blazin, goin out for the cause
Still rockin stockin caps, not for the waves, obeyin no laws


Sometimes I sit back with a Buddha sack
Mind's in another world thinking how can we exist through the facts
Written in school text books, bibles, et cetera
a school lecture, the lies get me vexed-er

I tend to agree that Kurupt in his prime was nearly untouchable. The only problem I have with that is his prime lasted around 2 years, while many other emcees maintained their game far above and beyond that. I won't argue that Kurupt had some untouchable crapthough.

If we're throwing around best of the best though, I gotta say:

Atmosphere - I like half of Slug's shit, the other half I completely ignore. He's great when he's on top, but I don't feel all his stuff is up to snuff.

Nas - Again, I like just about half of his songs, he rips some bungholes on Illmatic, Stillmatic, and God's Son, but a lot of his other albums I don't even listen to most of the time.

Eminem - Love him or hate him, if you know anything about rap, you know this guy is just plain untouchable at certain times, like on Renegades. I could listen to only that verse for the rest of my life and be content with music. However, I barely listen to Encore anymore, and even when I do it's only Yellow Brick Road.



Still, these guys are just as hit and miss as anyone. The thing with the medium of music is high output is expected, so naturally some of it is going to suffer. I love Tech N9ne, he's a bad ass mc with some ridiculous flows, and his delivery can't be matched. I understand not everyone likes his delivery, but I do, but not all the time. With music so much of it is made in so many seperate attitudes and time frames that it's wrong to compare Eminem on The Marshal Mathers LP to Eminem on Encore. They aren't the same person, they're not the same production, they're not the same mindset. Still, Eminem, Nas, Tech N9ne, Slug, Kurupt, when they are at the top of their game, they really can't be compared to other MC's, because the crapthey put out was so ridiculously good.

I know that doesn't jibe with a lot of people, but hey, a lot of people listen to Bob Dylan, and he has one of the worst voices to ever grace music. Don't agree with that? Well take it up with Bob, he's admitted that fact more times than anyone. But when he writes something that is pure poetry, that's what gets him recognized as one of the best at what he does.

Which is why I can say that yes, Kurupt is definitely one of the better rappers to ever rap.


Then again, I don't worship Biggie and 2 Pac, so what do I know, right?

Yeah, like I said, just because Tech N9ne is one of my favorite rappers doesn't mean I like every song by him. As you mentioned, Everready is definitely not his best work, with only like 5 songs being anything better than average. Which, on an album with 24 songs, is kind of depressing.

That doesn't change the fact that the 5 songs I do like on the album are some of my favorites though.

aha, no kidding.