The Real MC
Top 5 MCs
Saw this post on Pete Rock’s insta the other day and it reminded me of a conversation with my friends Brad and Samantha. We tried to make our All Time Top 5 MCs list. There was a little overlap but the theme might be whittling it down to 5 is hard.
The inspiration for this was Fat Joe’s Instagram live interview with AOC where he asked her for her starting five and she crushed it with some real legends and a nod her constituents with her last pick.
“Not in order–Nas, Big Pun is up there, of course, we’ve got Biggie…of course we’ve got Tupac…the fifth one is so hard.” After a brief pause, she chose KRS-ONE to round out the top five.
Ironically a few weeks later Cory Booker was on the show and you can read this thread to see what the interwebs thought and why he gave the people from New Jersey one more thing to 🤦♂️
On an Instagram Live last night, I was asked by @fatjoe who my top five favorite rappers are. Here's my list. What's yours?
— Cory Booker (@CoryBooker) May 20, 2020
Chance the Rapper
Common
Talib Kweli
Jay-Z
Queen Latifah
My Top 5 (not in order)
- Biggie
- Nas
- Tupac (I live in LA now so no beef)
- Rakim
- Black Thought
- Mos Def
Brad’s Top 5
- Rakim
- Nas
- Biggie
- Mos Def
- Ghostface
- Big Daddy Kane
- Scarface
- Black Thought
- Ice Cube
- Tupac
- Pharoahe Monch
Samantha (aka Berger)
- KRS
- Biggie
- Mos Def
- Rakim
- Wu Tang Clan
😂 so yeah. Picking the starting 5 is tough. Brad failed miserably, I had an extra man on, and Berger bent the rules by nominating the entire Wu.
Berger also reached out to her brother who happens to be DJ Mighty Mi of the the High and Mighty. 🎧📻Check out his instagram live set from the golden era. ❤️
Mighty Mi Top 5
- KRS
- Rakim
- Biggie
- Ice Cube
- Big Daddy Kane
- Jay-Z
- Kool G Rap
- LL Cool J
- Slick Rick
- Chill Rob G
🤦♂️ Moral
This 💩 is hard. Mighty Mi almost failed as bad as Brad 😂