Who are your top 3 favorite gangster rappers of all time?

[Midnighter]

Somebody named Vanilla Ice....Not Gangsta either.

Yeah he is.



One of the best to everyone do it.

 

[Agent Mulder's Hair]

That's not even the best song on JAZZMATAZZ.

Look up "Dwyck" and "You know my Steeze" (see if you can find a live version from a radio station)

lol I had the Jazzmatazz cd (this is bringing back memories!) but I never really listened to it all the way through.

I'll check out those songs you mentioned

 

[Agent Mulder's Hair]

Yeah he is.



One of the best to everyone do it.

Not gonna lie, I dug the shit out of that song Vanilla did with Bloodhound Gang



edit: this one

 

[Kal-El]

Brotha lynch hung and two others

 

[Midnighter]

Ghetto boyz

NWA

50

If you're talking about Geto Boys, how're you gonna have a top 3 and list like 7 ppl?

I should fight you.

 

[Midnighter]

Not gonna lie, I dug the shit out of that song Vanilla did with Bloodhound Gang



edit: this one

I've actually only heard Ice Ice Baby lol

 

[soggyfist]

Kool G Rap
Cormega
Spice 1
Smoothe Da Hustler

I've never really considered Wu-Tang gangster rap but I suppose they qualify.

 

[Moth Man]

im gonna bring new school and say vince staples, who was a crip

 

[Satsui Ryu]

Pac
Spice 1 (extremely underrated)
Ice Cube

Gangsta Rap seems to be making a comeback. Dudes like YG, Mitchie Slick, and Nipsey Hustle are getting airplay now.

 

[Agent Mulder's Hair]

I've actually only heard Ice Ice Baby lol

Dude listen to that track!

"My name ain't quasimodo but I still got a hunch
Like the Jim Jones cult I'll take you out with one punch"





lol that shit's great that might be the dopest line in all of rap history, lol
that part wasn't Vanilla Ice it was Jimmy Pop's, but Vanilla's part was good too.

 

[GordoBarraBJJ]

Ed Sheeran . . . oh wait, wrong thread.

 

[IndyCovaHart]

Fresh Prince
Snow
Kriss Kross

 

[ithinktheymad]

Kool G Rap
M.O.P.
Big Pun
Jadakiss
Fat Joe

We're all gonna make it sherbros.

 

[Lethal]

Big Pun
Prodigy
Tragedy Khadafi

 

[TheLastSpartan]

 

[DeJulez]

Pick your top 3

And this isn't who is the "best?" This is who is YOUR favorite?

- Eazy E
- Dr. Dre
- Ice Cube
- Snoop Dogg
- Tupac
- Biggie
- Ice T
- Puffy
- 50 Cent
- Anybody from Wu Tang Clan
- DMX
- Anybody from Cypress Hill
- Anybody from Bone Thugs
- Anybody from Public Enemy
- Somebody else?

I'm sure I missed several so feel free to add people I didn't list.

I didn't include Eminem because I don't really consider him gangster rap, but if you do, feel free to list him

Should just be called Hardcore Rap.
2Pac wouldn't classify himself as Gangsta Rap.

Spice 1 was gangsta rap.

 

[DeJulez]

That's not even the best song on JAZZMATAZZ.

Look up "Dwyck" and "You know my Steeze" (see if you can find a live version from a radio station)

Dwyck is one of the most overrated songs ever.
Awful.
Gang Starrs(Guru and DJ Premier) "Mass Appeal" and "Zonin" are songs I would point someone too.
"Just to get a rep" is another one.
"Loungin" by Guru off the Jazzmatazz

Nice & Smooth were on the Dwyck song and every song I ever heard from them just bothered me. I hated "Sometimes I rhyme slow" as well.

 

[Patrick Jane]

3. Bushwick Bill
2. Scarface
1. Kool G Rap

Spoiler

 

[Brodels]

THREE 6 MAFIA

 

[Brodels]

Rakim and Talib are not gangster.

Talib is a hip hop dork