The Game took to Instagram yesterday (November 21) to decry Billboard’s list of “The 10 Greatest Rappers of All Time,” which was published last week (November 12).
“y’all trippin on the order of this bullshit & bitch where the fuck 2Pac & Ice Cube ??? & I guess Lauren Hill can out rap@SnoopDogg right ?” The Game writes under an image of Billboard’s list. “Y’all out y’all mothafuckin’ mind !!! & just disrespect LL Cool J & KRS ONE huh ??? (Now I’m bout to roll my blunt to ‘Doggystyle’ jump on my tour bus & zone out to ‘All Eyes On Me’, followed by ‘Makaveli’ & ‘Death Certificate’ & take me a fuckin nap on this bullshit….. then wake up & read the comments while a bunch of non hip hop educated fuck boys argue below… #FuckYallList”
At the end of the aforementioned post, The Game reeled off his own picks for the Top 10 greatest rappers of all time.
“MY LIST
1. 2pac & B.I.G
2. Nas
3. Rakim
4. Eminem
5. Jay-Z
6. Ice Cube
7. Snoop Dogg
8. Andre 3000
9. Jadakiss
10. Big L & FUCK YO OPINION !!!!!!!!!”
In a subsequent post, The Game merged together three images and a video of Snoop Dogg condemning the list. The first image is a picture of Billboard’s list with a red cross through it; the second is The Game’s Top 10 followed by a third image of Ice Cube, Snoop Dogg and Tupac.
In the caption field, The Game criticized Billboard for failing to include Tupac on the list, a sentiment also expressed by Snoop Dogg.
“#Billboard smokin crack wit that bullshit ass list !!! I had to correct y’all careless mistakes & service hip hop right… & understand this shit right here: DON’T YOU EVER AS LONG AS YOU WALK GOD’S GREEN EARTH MAKE A HIP HOP LIST WITHOUT 2PAC,@SNOOPDOGG OR @ICECUBE IN IT !!!!!! Fuck wrong wit you fuck ass people ?!?!?!?!? #FuckBillboardsList”
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Game’s list is solid but fuck Eminem (his rap/pop music is garbage) and Snoop should not be in the top 10. I’m not so sure about Big L and Jadakiss making top 10, but top 20 for sure. Obviously 2Pac and Ice Cube should definitely be in the top 10. It’s a no brainer. It’s simply ludicrous if you don’t include them. Another forgotten rapper is Kool G Rap, he is also a top 10 rapper. But fuck a list anyway. There are so many great rappers in hip-hop. Who cares about who’s the so called best of the best, because if you think about it, Big Pun never makes the list but could have easily rapped circles around everybody in that top 10. Even Canibus in his prime was incredible.
You’re an idiot eminem is one of the top freestylers of all time
Feeling tough behind the keyboard, huh homie?
I was actually surprised he put Em above Jay, but I got it like that on my list as well.
Where mase n dis discishion. He def top 10
Long as they got my boi three stacks all that matters.
Why do people worry about Billboard, best shit to do it is like the Israelis labeling Yasser Arafat ‘irrelevant’ and it worked. Fuck the Billboard, so you have Eminem but you don’t have Treach , where would you place a Grand Puba? Kane? Krs-One? oh, you don’t want to go that far back, ok, where do you put Black Thought? Q-tip? LL? D.O.C et al…..
Israelis labeling yasser irrelevant? Get your ZioNazi ass outta here. You better worry about ur country Israel, its going down soon! Best believe that! Its Destiny
By labeling you mean the Israelis poisined a President that happens to be their neighbor. You Israelis are nothing but savage terrorists
THE GAME is getting more real…….he checked YOUNG THUG’s fake azz…THE GAME is TOP 10 rapper of 2015…….#THIS IS HOW WE DO wth FIDDY….lol..the good old dayz!…
I’m a fan of Kiss, but he shouldn’t be anywhere near a top 10. His discography is too average. He has nothing even close to a classic album. Maybe his first one, but that had a bunch of filler on it too. If there was a list for mixtape kings, he’d be on there.
Have you heard his new album top 5doa, classic
his first album had filler??? FOH, IDIOT! That album is a classic and I could never understand why you dumb fucks never understood this. There’s no fuckin filler on there!
Been out for 2 days and it’s classic. Ok
Yeah, an album that’s been available for streaming for 2 days is already a classic. Typical modern day fan quick to call everything classic.
“Jadakiss dropped a solo they lovin’ his voice
I’m lovin’ his shit but the hood thought it was MOIST”
Yeah. That’s Kiss’ own partner Sheek Louch on his perspective of Kiss first solo album. That’s what most people thought when that album dropped. Kiss has some classic mixtapes, but no classic albums. He’s one of the greats, but not top 10 great. There’s too many other artists that have waaaaay stronger catalogue’s than Kiss.
First of all this Planet is Blue and yes Lauryn Hill can outrap You and Snoop EASY!
preach
Don’t always agree with game on everything personally but he’s right. What about grand master flash? Slick Rick? Method man or any of WU really lots of legendary rappers should have been mentioned on this list and were overlooked for Lauren hill who is more of a singer than rapper. No disrespect to anyone I just think that the people writing up these lists should actually listen to hip hop and learn some history before spewing out that bull shit.
Ghostface is from the wu. And to be honest lauryn kills every verse, she has bars
(1) Biggie – (2) 2Pac – (3) Rakim – (4) Nas – (5) Eminem – (6) JAY Z – (7) Wu-Tang Clan – (8) KRS-One – (9) Mos Def – (10) Big L – (11) Big Pun – (12) Andre 3000
Fuck u bro…. there’s no biggie over pac
That’s right pac the greatest of all time
2 Pac, Biggie, Rakim, Nas, Eminem, Jay-Z, KRS ONE, Ice Cube, Lauryn Hill, Chuck D
Big daddy kans, lil Wayne, should definitely be in the toptop 3
Big daddy kane
1. Big Daddy Kane
2. Lil Wayne.
3. Jay ZZ
4. Tupac
5. Busta Rhymes
6. Drake
7. Eminem.
8. Ice Cube
9. Notorious BIG
10. LL Cool J
1.2pac & biggie
2.jay z & nas
3.ice cube & ll cool j
4.rakim & eminem
5.krs one & snoop
6. Wu tang
7. Dmx & ja
8.andre 3000 & wayne
9.luda & t i
10 will smith.yes i said it…..
List 1.Nas 2.Biggie,3.2pac,4.Rakim,5.Jayz,6.Eminem,7.Andre 3000. Its difficult to know the remaining three
Where is ice cube and Kool g rap in your list, clown?
real niggas listen real rappers!
1. 2pac
2. B.I.G
3. Nas
4. Rakim
5. Jay-Z
6. Eminem
7. Ice Cube
8. Snoop Dogg
9. Andre 3000
9. Ll cool J
10. Dr. Dre
Biggie shouldn’t even be on the list I think. But none the less Billboard made a garbage list.
The good thing is that Bill BORED has finally lost all credibility within the Hip Hop community by exposing itself as an entity that is completely out of touch with, indifferent to and disrespectful of Black, Latino, urban and Hip Hop culture. Now maybe these millionaire rappers and producers will pool their resources and take greater control of Hip Hop media and all other aspects of the genre and culture.
Here’s something to think about just to stress the importance of the above point. Would Billboard ever dare to leave Hank Williams, Johnny Cash or George Jones off of the top ten Country Singers list??? I think not! In fact, they wouldn’t even dare to tell Country Music fans who their “ten” best artists of all time are.
If anything, Billboard wouldn’t dare make anything less than a “top 100” Country artists of all time list.
Uhhh LUDACRIS? Not one of you retards put him on you’re shitty list.
No way is he top ten. Top twenty maybe.
Hahahahahahahah I love how he bitched about Billboard leaving LL and KRS out… and then he leaves them out of his list too!!!
.1. Curren$y. 2. Nickelus f. 3.Weezy F. Baby (fuck tunchi.)4.Ludacris. 5.drake. 6. Ace hood. 7. Big krit. 8. Kid daytona. 9. Hit-boy. 10. Pryce & oktane aka Audio Push.
1. Nas
2. Eminem
3. Jay Z
4. 2Pac
5. Dre & Snoop
6. Kanye west
7. The Roots
8. Kendrick
9. Common
10. Outkast
Honourable mentions: Rakim, Biggie, Big Pun, Big L, Lupe, Mos def, Talib kweli, Ice Cube, Royce…
How is Dre the 5th best rapper of all time when he doesn’t even write his own lyrics?
The Roots are a band. Black Thought is the rapper (and sometimes Dice Raw).
Kayne isn’t that good of a rapper, just (used to) make dope beats with o.k. lyrics.
Agree with your points. My list above in my option is the greatest hip hop artists rather than purely rappers. Hence the inclusion of Dre, Kanye and the Roots.
There’s a big difference between the best artists – who can create brilliant songs and albums which portray a wide range of emotions and are relatable (e.g Dre and Kanye)..and the best MC/lyricists/wordsmiths – who can write the best lines and demonstrate clever wordplay and imagination in their lyrics (e.g Em, Rakim, pharaoh)…
If we’re talking purely lyricists, skill on the mic and wordplay…the list above looks very different…and would include: Eminem,
Chino XL,
Crooked I,
Big Pun,
Tech 9ne,
Elzhi,
RA rugged man,
Black thought,
Andre 3k,
Royce,
Rakim,
Nas,
Jay Z,
Pharaoh monch,
Budden,
Lupe,
Jada,
Copywrite,
King Los,
Locksmith,
Canibus….wow too many to name!
Completely agree. There is definitive top10. Depends on what your ranking
Agreed. BIG’s career was too short to be in the top 10..arguably the same goes for kendrick
Kendrick has 3 classic albums already. Most emcees with a career 10 years longer than his struggle to drop 1 classic. Same with Big (if you take the double album as enough content to make 2 separate albums)
I am a big kendrick fan. Section 80 and gkmc can be seen as classics because they were released more than two years ago.TPAB needs time to resonate as a classic,since it dust got released this year. For now, kdot has two classics
DMX has to be in top 10 b4 Drake and lil wayne or kendrick.
Before Wayne or Drake, yes, but not before Kendrick.
DMX had 2 classics, and a bunch of shitty subpar albums. Kendrick already dropped 3 classics.
1. 2pac
2. Eminem
3. Biggie
4. Rakim
5. Jay-z
6. Nas
7. DMX
8. Jadakiss
9. Lil Wayne
10. Andre 3000
11. J. Cole
12. Ice Cube
13. Big L
14. Big Daddy Kane
15. Dj Quik
1. 2pac, 2.EMINEM, 3.WIZ KHALIFA, 4. LIL WAYNE, 5. DJ KAHLED, 6.MACHINE GUN KELLY, 7.CHRIS BROWN, 8.DRAKE, 9 TYGA, 10 SEAN KINGSTON OR KANYE WEST..
You’re kidding, right?
That’s a joke, right?
Lupe
MF DOOM
Common
Ghostface
Nas
Pac
Rza
Gza
Thought
Andretti
yes, game. lauryn hill can out rap snoop. and snoop is an og, but he’s more about flow and delivery and his voice stands out. lauryn got him lyrically, she could rap circles around him.
No!
Man, y’all need to get over your “Tupac and BIG was the greatest rappers of all time no matter what!”-bullshit, and start actually judging rappers without being afraid of getting criticism for it. Em, Nas and BIG should be top three. Get out of here with that Jay-z and Rakim shit. Y’all dumb
Big was the best ever no-one comes close pac second and game sound dumb as fuck snoop can’t be on a list when he’s made twenty albums and only one classic beat it
From a pure Hip Hop MC perspective, they had 2 on the list that were in my opinion a must have in the Top 10. That is Lauryn Hill and Rakim, maybe even Eminem. But everyone else is Top 11-20. There are too many rappers that are better than Jay-Z and Jadakiss, or even Andre 3000, it’s not that Biggie is over rated but people are over praising him, Biggie is not in Top 10. Like I said too many other dope MC out there for that. For example, Tarik a.ka Black Thought from the Roots, or Mos Def. The coldest MC to ever come out of Brooklyn is Mos Def, not Jay-Z. pc out
Lauryn Hill is a LEGIT MC and a LEGIT SINGER. She is PURE talent
Lauryn hill is not a pure MC
Game’s list is pretty much in point except for the cop-out Big/2-pac at 1 and having Eminen too high if on there at all.
Nas
Rakim
Ice Cube
Jadakiss
BIG
Andre 3k
2Pac
Kanye
Raekwon
Jay-Z/BDK/LL
1 2pac
2 Lil Wayne
3 Master p
4 Snoop
5 Jay z
6 Nas
7 big
8 Kayne West
9 Jadakiss
10 Eminem
You’re trippin’…
Man shut up pac is the best hands down
Any list without one Wu-tang member (my choices would be Gza and Ghostface) is null and void. Go eat d*ck.
1. Biggie
2. 2 Pac
3. Jay Z
4. Nas
5. Eminem
6. Kanye West
7. Andre 3000
8. LL Cool J
9. Snoop Dogg
10. Ice Cube
Why the hell is eminem on any top 10 please stop perpetratin that bullshit…
…..yet not 1 classic album.
Slim Shady LP, Marshall Mathers, and The Eminem Show were all very good, but there is a lot of forgettable music on them.
Becaused of Eminem’s flow and he is skilled lyricist.Opinions vary for each person, but i feel he should be in the top ten.
Billboard list need to be thrown in a dumpster!!!
1.NAS 6.JADAKISS
2.2Pac 7.AZ
3.B.I.G 8.RAKIM
4.JAYZ 9.Big Daddy KANE
5.SCARFACE 10.LL COOL J
You cant just come out and say Top 10 Rappers ever. You got to have to split it up in categories like:
Top 5 rap group
Top 5 creative rappers
Top 5 underground rappers
Top 5 retired rappers
Top 5 successful rappers
Top 5 rappers to ft in a track……….
Then you can get all the number 1’s and put it together to make a top …. list.
1) 2pac
2) Rakim
3) Nas
4) BIG
5) Masta Ace
6) AZ
7) Andre 3000
8) Common
9) Guru
10) KRS One
Honorable Mentions: Q-Tip, Big L, Kool G Rap, Kane, Baba Zumbi, Erick Sermon, Black Thought, Posdunous
No top 10 list is complete with Drizzaveli in it. #DrakeIsLoveDrakeIsLife
#DrakeIsShit
What about slim Jesus
1) rza
2) gza
3) ghostface
4) inspectah deck
5) raekwon
6) method man
7) masta killa
8) u god
9) cappadonna
10) O.D.B
#nuffsaid
#top10
#WuTangClan
#hiphop
#PEACE
game is so stupid i swear. always in the news for the most stupidest shit ever. and this shit is no different. fuck billboards opinion but u want ppl to listen to yours? its an OPINION. chill the fuck out, honestly fuck this dude, grown ass man acting like a pre-pubescent guy on the daily
is he right or wrong?? simple,,whatchu trippin for dude
1. Biggie & Pac
2. Eminem
3. Jay-Z
4. Nas
3. Andre 3000
5. Lil’ Wayne
6. Snoop Dogg
7. Kendrick Lamar
8. Pusha T/ Lupe Fiasco
9. Method Man
10. Drake
AUTHENTIC Top ten List: 1. 2Pac 2. Nas 3. The Notorious B.I.G 4. Jay-Z 5. Rakim 6. Ice Cube 7. Eminem 8. Lauryn Hill 9. Lupe Fiasco 10. Big L
All Eyez On Me……… the first double-full-length hip-hop solo studio album released for mass consumption….fuck the rest all this garbage ….
AMEN GAME!!!! These people shouldn’t even pretend to know hip hop. I mean Damn MACKELMORE BEAT KENDRICK FOR THE GRAMMY!!…WTF!@$!….NUFF SAID
When I and maybe others think of Kendrick Lamar I have two songs in my head. Bitch Don’t Kill My Vibe, and Money Trees. I prefer these songs and Mackelmore is a rapper who hasn’t produced any good rap songs atleast I dont think so but some people have horrible taste in rap. As for the Game I haven’t listened to him so I can’t say.
1. Eminem
2. Tupac
3. B.I.G
4. Nas
5. Rakim
6. Scarface
7. Jay z
8. Ice cube
9. Snoop dogg
10. The game
Big L should at least be top 4 wtf is wrong with y’all he showed up tupac in (deadly combination) just cause a person is more known do t mean they better and remember that real talk
1. Tupac
2. Biggie (Tupac and Biggie can be switched on your favorite my favorite is Tupac)
3. Bone Thugs N Harmony
4. Big L
5. Dr Dre
6. ScarFace
7. Kendrick Lamar
8. Snoop Dogg
9. Eazy E
10. Ice Cube
10.
Join the discussion 1 b.I.g 2 eminem 3 tupac 4 jay z 5 nas 6 kendrick lamar 7 j cole 8 snoop doogg 9 ice cube 10 eazy e
someone tell me where tf tech n9ne is
Nigga got bars
1.tupac
2.nas
3.rakim
4.ll cool j
5.big pun
6.biggie smalls
7.jay-z
8.ice cube
9.50 cent
10.snoop dogg
My List.
1.Tupac
2.Biggie
3.Nas
4.Rakim
5.Andre 3000
6.Eminem
7.Snoop Dogg
8.Big Pun
9.KRS 1
10. The Game
fuck that dumb bill boards list,it’s a disgrace too rap if pac,ice cube are not in the top ten greats.And salute to you game your now my ten spot greatest rapper.
here is ma list plain n clear not biased as the fucking list billboard dumb asses made :
12pac 2big 3eminem 4rakim 5krs one 6big pun 7ice cube 8big l 9 ll cool j 10 game and snoopy
you right Game, fuck these punk ass muhfuckers. MAKAVELI is the best…
2pac 4life. got me thru tuff times in cali state time.
Fuck all BIG haters
I’m pretty sure I haven’t had any alcohol today, but when I read that list I thought for sure I must be drunk. So apparently there is know one that works for Billboard that was born before the year say 1990. First real Rap started to die in the late 90’s. there has been not much more than a handful of decent rapper’s from the late 90’s to now. Certainly NONE of them should be anywhere near a legit Greatest List. Look it started in the 70’s Sugar Hill Gang and more, 80’s (So many to mention) A couple to start: Run DMC and Jam Master J, Kurtis Blow, Chuck D, Slick Rick and Doug e Fresh and SO many more. Early 90’s Many list No brainers: Tupac, Biggie, “Snoop and Dre”, (even Heavy D- who kept it clean but still very entertaining,) Ice Cube, and Eminem. Towards the late 90’s Rap is when it all started going down hill. Todays rappers are not I the same class as 80’s and early 90’s rappers, I was a young teen in the 80’s when real rapper first burst on to the scene to set the standard for all else to follow. The late 90’s early 2000’s did bring a few very talented ladys to rap, Missy, Nicki Minaj who are right there with Salt n Peppa. Billboard that was a real sh**y try. Do some research and try it again,attempt, give it another shot.
Split it up into 2 separate era’s. Real Rap era the 70’s to late 90’s. And whatever you want to call stuff like the crap Drake does from 2000’s to now. There are only a few from the 2000’s I would give props to, like Lil’ Jon, and Nicki Minaj. Those two can entertain for sure.
1. Biggie
2. Eminem
3. Tupac
4. Nas
5. Jay-Z
6. Andre 3000
7. Rakim
8. Ice Cube
9. Kendrick Lamar
10. Big Pun
11. Snoop Dogg
12. Lil Wayne
13. Game
14. RZA
15. Tech N9ne
16. Kanye West
17. Twista
18. Busta Rhymes
19. J. Cole
20. Krizz Kalliko
biggie should switch
biggie should switch with eminem
1.EMINEM NO ONE HAS CHANGED THE GAME AS MUCH AS HIM SO FUCK YOUR OPINION
2.2PAC&BIGGIE CLOSE TO THE #1
3.JAY Z
4. NAS
5.DR.DRE ALL YOU FORGET
6.RAKIM
7.ICE CUBE
8.SNOOP DOGG
9.KANYE WEST FUCK YALL OPINION
10.LIL WAYNE FUCK YOUR OPINION
Pac nas biggie and big l
1. 2pac
2 B.I.G.
3 Nas
4. Rakim
5. Snoop Dogg
6. Cube
7. Eminem
NUFF Said
1: Tupac and Big
2: Nas
3: Eminem