12 comments

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   Comment by Metal Quality on October 21, 2009 at 6:48 am

   Hip Hop is the baby of music. It has only existed since the 70’s, and has been given a bad name for most of those years.

   Musical legends of other genres are fairly easy to find. The Beatles, Miles Davis, Bob Dylan, etc are artists your pretty much born knowing. Where as Chuck D, Ghostface, Rakim and Kool G Rap are artists you have to find on your own really.

   When people hear all of the one hit wonders on the radio, as well as all of the songs about sex, drugs, etc. They just say what the he’ll is this? It’s garbage. Which is partially their fault and partially the radios fault because they don’t look hard enough and the radio plays the gabage that they are mistakenly calling Hip Hop.

   Anyway, if you look at hip hop as a lifestyle, and consider the great, deep music an element of that lifestyle, then I rank it higher than all of the others genres, because it means more.

   As far as artists I’d rank with put there with other greats, Chuck D of Public Enemy, Rakim, Pos of De La Soul, and Ghostface Killah. As far as producers, The RZA, Preemo, Pete Rock, Marley Marl, and Dilla.

   I feel all of those artists had a role in making hip hop what it is today, and all of them are GOAT candidates, IMO.

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   Comment by 3J the Philosopher(L.O.S.) on October 21, 2009 at 6:48 am

   Hip Hop: 9/10 why not 10/0? cause of all these wack rappers that give it a bad name

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   Comment by --Huey-- Funcrusher Minus on October 21, 2009 at 6:48 am

   i guess that i mainly like rap/hip hop more than other genres because they simply have more artists that i enjoy listening to.

   but rap and hip hop definitely has not made the as many contributions to music as rock has.

   i think i would at least give them a spot in my top 15, probably top 10. simply because i base my GOAT lists on influence and creation of music based on different eras of time. but there are definitely more musicians that have contribute so much to music. from a completely objective standpoint, rap is a great genre and deserves recognition as well.

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   Comment by Tyrone Biggums on October 21, 2009 at 6:48 am

   It probably hasn’t made the same amount of contributions because it’s young.. it’s only about 30 years old

   But for me, I prefer hip hop above all genres

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   Comment by Steph (Very Puzzled) on October 21, 2009 at 6:48 am

   I haven’t been in here for a super long time but all these crappy anthems were coming out making it seem rap/hip hop was going down the drain so I begin listening to ska and rock.

   Now rock/ ska is my favorite genre now(big sublime fan) and not really into rap/hip hop as I use to be. I still occasionally jam out to lupe,nas,mos def, common and ETC.

   I still think rap should get more,/100% respect from other genre’s though I mean all races listen to rap/hip hop. I think it has brought alot of people from different races together. When you go to a rap/hip hop concert I see nearly every race there in decent amounts.

   Same goes with reggae, I can rarely find anyone from any race who doesn’t like Bob Marley, or at least dancing to reggae.

   So yup Rap/hip hop is mos def up there. Number one probbly goes to rock, contributed to everything! Jimmy Hendrix is the man! = )

   I hope everyone is having a good day.

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   Comment by Henry on October 21, 2009 at 6:48 am

   @ Metal: Chuck D of The Roots is the homie. Hehe

   Hip hop has made its contibutions.. anytime you create a genre of music that gets criticized as much as hip hop has and been successful, you’ve made your mark. Just with the fact alone that hip hop artists have collabed with rock and country artists shows contibution as well. I mean, they’re being recognized by the genres that may be concidered to have contributed more.

   RUN DMC would be ranked up there in the top 30 all genres combined IMO

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   Comment by Nathan M on October 21, 2009 at 6:48 am

   Personalty its my 2nd fave genres. 1 is rock. 3 is pop and dead last is country

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   Comment by Jake on October 21, 2009 at 6:48 am

   hip hop in my opinion is the most contributing thing compared to other genre’s … you have to listen to the real rappers like , Nas, 2pac, biggie, Jadakiss, jay z, Eminem (when he speaks normally) to hear it

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   Comment by Jack Kerorap on October 21, 2009 at 6:48 am

   10/10.

   Hip hop combines the best of all the genres into one. In terms of music it gives a voice to the voiceless, something that rock and country really haven’t done. I didn’t include blues and jazz because they’re not as popular today. In terms of non music issues, hip hop has the ability to bring races together. There’s not really anything on that scale that rock or country has done.

   I think some rappers place higher in terms of music as a whole than they would in terms of just rapping. I would place people like Q-Tip and Wyclef fairly high. As well as Aesop Rock, who is essentially the Bob Dylan of rap.

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    Comment by Alkimizta on October 21, 2009 at 6:48 am

    RADIO HIP HOP WHORES SUCKS! The real hip hop is underground and alive with real artist who truly rap about real things. Radio killed real Hip Hop

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    Comment by TD on October 21, 2009 at 6:48 am

    crap, that’s my rating, hip hop today is so stupid, just all about bling, whores, and cars.

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    Comment by pinoyboy on October 21, 2009 at 6:48 am

    first off, i’d like to say i LOVE hip-hop, probably a lot more than anyone else i know. that being said, i still don’t believe it has made the same contributions to music as a whole compared to that of rock and roll, jazz, or classical music, but it’s influence on music today is so undeniable, i would give it about a 6 or 7. without artists such as bob james, isaac hayes, james brown, etc etc then hip-hop would be extremely different now, simply because it borrows music from everywhere. hip-hop definitely has introduced a lot of things, such as that beautiful sound you hear when you scratch a record, the beat box, sampling, etc. i personally think rock has made the most contributions to music, coming all the way from rocket 88 to all the indie/alternative/metal music that’s out there now (beautiful music by the way. love indie music). as for pop…well you can argue that hip-hop has kind of turned into pop music in a lot of ways. i won’t get into that here though..

    the highest placing i would give a rapper/producer on a list is probably top ten, maybe even top 5. if i’m being biased i could put dilla up there, but i think as far as influence, contributions to music and just quality, tupac has done more than enough to be considered a top 10 musical great