MOST OVERRATED EMCEE OF ALL TIME

Peace:

Let get it cracking. I know that many of us love to talk emcee’s. We love to dissect lyrics and content and their meaning. Some records just hit us at a point in our life when the message was coinciding with something we were feeling. When this happens we deicide that the artist or group that exposed your feelings has to be the greatest emcee ever. We hold that dude down no matter what, no matter what argument. Sometimes it takes that artist or group that one moment to connect with you, maybe gave you a pound at a show, or stopped to sign a shirt or a hat. You might have been luke warm on them but after that moment you just held them down like they were the greatest thing since the creation of hip hop. I feel that many emotions make up our favorites list. Hopefully it is about more than what I just talked about, cause lets face it, maybe less than 1% of you out there get to chop it up with an artists that has put out music you like. Many of us get caught up in the hype, drink the kool-aide, and buy the bridge, if you will. So many fans are just dick riders, lets keep it 100. You know what I am talking about. There are so few that can really talk lyrics and artists. Just cause you know that artists biggest single does not mean they should be G.O.A.T material and yet they are there. We scoff and laugh but these rappers have touched people and thus have gotten props where they might not have been deserved. This is not about dissing anyone who makes music and I want to make that clear. This blog is not about tearing someone down; I am not built like that. This blog is not to take away any ones shine or credibility, that is not my place. I am just simply saying that there are many rappers who I feel are over rated. This is my personal list. These are my personal feelings and I hope that this will start some real conversation and not just spewing hate, cause if that happens, I will just take this down. Hip Hop Critic is about those who love and know this music to have intellectual conversations about this culture and artists that we love. Here is my list:

1-Tupac: Many of you already got your gloves on and are ready to go at it, but at least let me explain. Tupac was able to convey great emotion through song. He was able to make great songs. Many of these songs are classics, “Brenda’s Got A Baby”, “ I Get Around”, “Hit’em Up”, “How Do You Want It”, “Wonder if Heaven’s got a Ghetto”. These are great songs, but to be a great emcee you have to be able to not only make a great song, but to be witty with the word play, and Pac was just real straight forward and did not really flip the language in a way that proved he was a word smith. He was a great rapper, a rapper who moved millions with his voice and emotion, but as an emcee he was not all of that, and certainly does not deserve to be mentioned in the top 5 of all time. He is not ever in my top ten, not even in my top 15, personally.

2-C.L. Smooth: How can so many people love this dude so much and he only really made one record in his whole life that was any good? If you really listen to those rhymes on T.R.O.Y they are all over the place and really hard to follow. The tracks were so bonkers that everyone fell in love with the song and eventually love C.L. Smooth. Show me one other example where he was witty with the rhymes other than the above song I mentioned and we can have a debate. Lets be clear, with Pete Rock, C.L. would have nothing to stand on

3-Kool Keith: No again don’t get me wrong, I love Ultra Magnetic and I use to hang with Keith in the Latin Quarter and have been to the crib. When he went left and started with the Black Elvis/Doctor Octogon records, the backpack community and the underground embraced him for his eclectic style and manner. This does not make him an emcee, it only makes him kinda bugged out and different. Nowhere does he ever convey a thought that makes true sense in the context of his records. He is a showman without question so the Em in the cee, gives him some love, but he is not an emcee you go around quoting and many people and caught in the hype

4-EPMD: Eric Sermon and Parrish Smith, know to the world as EPMD made some great records. It is easy to say that they made one of the best albums of all time, Strictly Business. They came out at a time when Rakim had come from Long Island and put a spotlight on those artist from out there. Eric and Parrish always sounded like a broke version of Rakim with Eric using Rakim’s flow and Parrish using Rakim’s hardness. Many people love EPMD and they should love them for their songs and not for their rhymes, which are hard to remember with out the music underneath them.

5-Young Jeezy: I hear so many people talk about Jeezy as this great emcee, especially young hustlers in the game, who relate to his success without him leaving the trap. Here is a secret for you that you might not know all you Jeezy fans. HE DOESN”T EVEN CONSIDER HIMSELF AND EMCEE AND HE DOESN’T CARE. Check the interview I did with him on our you tube channel www.youtube.com/serchlitemusic and see for yourself. How can someone be considered a great emcee when they themselves don’t care about being one.

6-Q-Tip: There are a lot of fans of ATCQ but we love the music they made and the songs they made. Q-Tip is a mad simple emcee, and his flow was always on point and his rhymes were always flwoing with the track, but you could never see TIP being this lyrical miracle that many put him up there to be. I love Tribe but I could not see any of TIP’S verses being said without you thinking about the track underneath them. A great emcee makes you forget the track and focus on his words and TIP ain’t the one.

7-RZA: Again I love the Wu, but RZA rhymes were always real bugged and unnecessary. He got some shine on the Gravediggaz album, but his Bobby Digital album was not a record you listened to because of his lyrical ability, but his production skills.

8-Guru-Gang Starr: I love this dude as a person as well, but without primo’s beats, he is just an ordinary rapper, not even an emcee, Primo made him an emcee

9-Supernatural: This is one of the greatest of-the-head- emcees there has ever been, but he cannot write. He get his props for his battle skills tho and I would not want to battle him, well…maybe?

10- Prime Minister Pete Nice-3rd Bass: LMAO!!! I am kidding, that is my dude for life and a hell of an emcee.

What’s your opinion, I’d like to know
Serch