Top 26 Hip Hop Poets of All Time
1. Nas Nas is a prototype of Kool G Rap and a poet laureate of Hip Hop, crafting hits through authentic songwriting, ILL storytelling and is on another level conceptually. His commercial viability made a lane for the vocabulary driven poet. Influenced a decade of Hip Hop lyricists. A true poetic architect and vizionary. Introduced in a time where the hyper-lyrical MC was the norm, amongst peers such as Big L, Prodigy, Notorious Big, Ghost and Rae, Jay-Z, he has only gotten sharper as he has aged. Salute King. 2. Kool G Rap Undisputed champ. "Wanted Dead Or Live" creates some of the grimiest, and visceral imagery. The Kool Genius of Rap conveys the greatest archetype in Hip Hop of all time: "the gangster". In the old school sense of Italian mobsters 3. Black Thought Black Thought is the leading MC in the legendary Roots crew, with Malik B, Dice Raw, and Questlove, with Kamal Gray and James Poyser getting ILL with the instruments. Hip Hop's greate...