OK NOT CONSIDERING PRODUCTION OR ANY THING...JUST ON SOME HARD GANGSTER SHIT. MY LIST WOULD GO:
ICE CUBE...WHAT RAPPER DIDNT GET INFLUENCED BY CUBE? SOCIAL COMMENTARY AND HARDNESS STILL CANT BE DONE THE WAY HE DID IT. I KNOW I PICKED UP GAME FROM ALOT OF HIS MATERIAL...AND SO DID EVERY BODY ELSE.
EAZY-E...HIS VOICE AND PERSONA STILL CANT BE MATCHED TO THIS DAY,WHO CARES IF HE DIDNT WRITE HIS OWN SHIT...RAPPERS USE GHOST WRITERS ALL THE TIME. RUTHLESS RECORDS MADE THE BLUE PRINT FOR A GOOD PORTION OF RAP LABELS
DANGEROUS DAME... FOOL HAD BARS. SICK RHYME PATTERNS,METAPHORS,AND DELIVERY...
SEAGRAM...REAL ASS MOTHERFUCKER ,WHO DIDNT EXXAGERATE...IN ORDER TO MAKE ME BELIEVE ,HE LIVED WHAT HE SPIT. HE WAS RAW AS FUCK,
C-BO...ANOTHER HARD GANGSTER WITH BARS...I REMEMBER BEING IN CHINO CENTRAL...HEARING THIS SKINHEAD FOOL, RHYMING BO LOCS FIRST VERSE FROM "TALES FROM THE CRYPT" OUT LOUD FROM HIS CELL...THIS FOOL GETS RESPECT BY EVERYBODY AS AN ARTIST AND A REAL ONE.
X-RAIDED...WHAT ELSE NEEDS TO SAID...RAIDED CANT BE DENIED
LYNCH...HIS DELIVERY AND RHYME PATTERNS WERE ONE OF A KIND...SEASON OF THE SICC IS NO DOUBT A CLASSIC IN THE EYES OF MANY
TOO SHORT...A FUCKIN LEGEND...STILL PUTTING IT DOWN...BIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIITCH
COLD 187...AN UNDER RATED ARTIST AND PRODUCER...LOTS OF MC'S WONT ADMIT IT...BUT THIS GUY INFLUENCED LOTS OF STYLES. AND IS TALENTED AS A MOTHERFUCKER
MAC DRE...FROM GANGSTER SHIT,PIMP SHIT, TO THE THE THIZZ...HE WAS ONE OF A KIND...R.I.P. MAC DRE.
MAN I COULD LIST SO MANY MORE BUT THATS MY TEN IN NO ORDER...
AND ALSO MY PERSONAL OPINION.