Most UNDERRATED MC's

[The Dream]

We have a thread for overrated now here's one for the underrated

Kool G. Rap - one of the greatest lyricist to ever touch a mic.....G Rap's unbelievable breath control and word connection is just flat out AMAZING!!!

Cormega - My man Mega hardly ever gets any love from the mainstream or real hip hop heads....dude consistently drops hot ****

Andre 3000 - I know he's popular, but I don't think most people (hip hop heads included) take Andre Ben as the ferocious lyricist that he has and can be.

Cee Lo Green - see andre 3000

Some others:

Redman
Pharoahe Monch
Black Thought
Chino XL
Ice T
Gift of Gab
Ras Kass

 

[Chutney]

Glad you mentioned Cormega.

 

[Phuzer]

Yaki Kadafi
Common

 

[Bobcats]

Eazy-E. Not necessarily his skills (though if you want to hear some of his craziest lyrics, download Creep and Crawl. The song is straight fire), but his impact he had on starting the rap game.

 

[playmaker15]

^^agreed. His death also opended the hip hop world to the AIDS epidemic. I was listening to Real Mutha****** G's and Creep and Crawl last night and I remembered how great an MC he was.

 

[Legacy]

Eminem

 

[The Dream]

^^^stop.....I like the old Em, but come on Em gets enough respect from the media and heads a like.

 

[Chutney]

Xzibit before Restless. His first albums and freestyling, without Dre producing, may not have sounded as crazy, but he showed some wicked lyrical skills.

 

[The Dream]

X to the Z is definitely sick on the mic......I would also like to add Paris to the mix.......I love P.E., but Paris was just as "militant" as Chuck on the mic.

 

[MiamiBalla12]

I think Talib Kweli is one of the most underrated mc’s in the game. Some people knock him because his voice is unappealing and he tries to fit too many words in his bars, but you can't deny the guy is one of the most talented lyricist's and has very conscious lyrics. I highly recommend his cd Reflection Eternal it's one of my favorites.

 

[phunDamentalz]

<div class="quote_poster">Quoting MiamiBalla12:</div><div class="quote_post">I think Talib Kweli is one of the most underrated mc?s in the game. Some people knock him because his voice is unappealing and he tries to fit too many words in his bars, but you can't deny the guy is one of the most talented lyricist's and has very conscious lyrics. I highly recommend his cd Reflection Eternal it's one of my favorites.</div>
word. those guys who have 2 rap cds in their collection -- marshall mathers and 50 cent the massacre need to pick that up and hear what real mcing sounds like

 

[Sex Panther]

Black Thought. Most cats these days will be "who??"

 

[Mamba]

<div class="quote_poster">Quoting Bobcats:</div><div class="quote_post">Eazy-E. Not necessarily his skills (though if you want to hear some of his craziest lyrics, download Creep and Crawl. The song is straight fire), but his impact he had on starting the rap game.</div>

Didn't Ice Cube write his lyrics?

 

[The Dream]

As far as I know, Eazy always had ghostwriters....and Cube wrote for Dre and Eazy when they were in NWA

<div class="quote_poster">Quote:</div><div class="quote_post">I think Talib Kweli is one of the most underrated mc’s in the game. Some people knock him because his voice is unappealing and he tries to fit too many words in his bars, but you can't deny the guy is one of the most talented lyricist's and has very conscious lyrics. I highly recommend his cd Reflection Eternal it's one of my favorites</div>

Talib has fell off.....Beautiful Struggle was incredibly wack, and his lyricism is going down the drain as of right now.....I like his old material with blackstar, hi tek, and the rawkus family, but if Talib dropped a cd right now, I wouldn't pick it up.

 

[MiamiBalla12]

<div class="quote_poster">Quoting THE DREAM:</div><div class="quote_post">Talib has fell off.....Beautiful Struggle was incredibly wack, and his lyricism is going down the drain as of right now.....I like his old material with blackstar, hi tek, and the rawkus family, but if Talib dropped a cd right now, I wouldn't pick it up.</div>

I agree Talib certainly has fallen off since his Blackstar days, I think most of the reason for that was no one was buying his cds when he was making cd's like blackstar and reflection eternal. So he tried to dumb down his lyrics and use party beats on the beautiful struggle which turned out horrible ("A Game"

) He had "Right About Now" drop late last year which turned out to be a pretty good album and is dropping "Eardrum" this summer on his own blacksmith records. Im expecting this new album to be more like his "Quality" album than his "The Beautiful Struggle" album. His single called "Listen" is pretty hot.

 

[The Dream]

yeah "right about now" was decent, but you're right he has dumbed himself down.

 

[Bobcats]

<div class="quote_poster">Quoting TheBlackMamba:</div><div class="quote_post">Didn't Ice Cube write his lyrics?</div>

When Cube was in NWA, yes. DOC also did some ghostwriting for him too, but on the efil4zaggin cd, Eazy was one of the main writers. Eazy wrote his own lyrics once NWA broke up.

 

[NTC]

Jeru The Damaja, Cormega, Pharoahe Monch, O.C, Lord Finesse, D-Flow, One.Be.Lo, Sean Price, Ras Kass, Mos Def, Common, Party Arty, Killah Preist, Kool G. Rap, Q-Tip, Inspectah Deck, Vinnie Paz...

Just to name a few.