BEST LYRICAL RAPPERS FREE

Sure, Ma$e might not be doing much work anymore, actually his verse kind of references that, but the Harlem rapper showed up on the G.O.O.D. Music compilation Cruel Summer obsessively except me - well, and maybe Travis Scott given how his new album sounds - but since I have let me be the one to point out one of the best lines about New York on the tape. Yes, I’m aware that no one ever listened to Kanye West’s G.O.O.D. “I’m a New Yorkian / I’m fucked from the jump”Īrtist: The Dream featuring Pusha T, Ma$e

BEST LYRICAL RAPPERS FREE

So feel free to leave your own favorites in the comments below.ĥ0. These are numbered for readability’s sake but not meant to be ranked as lists are always subjective and this is more a collection of favorites than a definitive list. Given it’s Nas’ birthday, it seemed a fitting day to drop the list, and given he’s one of the best rappers to ever emerge from the borough, he appears here several times. Whatever the case, we’ve collected fifty of the finest moments in rap history that the city has cropped up. Then again, it could be born and bred locals who understand these lyrical odes the best.

But maybe listening to rap references to Manhattan, Queens, and Brooklyn takes on a sheen of importance once you’ve left, or if you’ve never even been. When you live there, it’s easy to take these neighborhood name drops or landmark call outs for granted. Though the genre has now spread far and wide, and many argue that some other regions have usurped the Big Apple as the lynchpin of the rap game, New York remains at the heart of many of the best rap songs in history. It’s common knowledge that New York City is the point of origin for hip-hop.

Best lyrical rappers