Should be rappers and hip hop artists who rap in the style that emerged from New York in the late '70s to early '90s. If you're a fan of rap music, you should have at minimum a base knowledge in old school rap. If not for old school rappers, it's highly ...
Who is the most famous gay rapper? Azealia Banks tops our list. Azealia Banks is openly bisexual, but she caught a lot of flak from the LGBT community when she used the f-word to describe Perez Hilton. Deadlee is a key player in the homo hip-hop music scene. He married his partner ...
List of the Best 80s Rappers of All Time 1. Queen Latifah Queen Latifah was one of the most influential 80s female rappers. She encouraged her people to love one another and had an eloquent rap style that set her apart from other 80s rappers. She was also one of the firstwhite female ...
Eventually his song "Hussle In The House" proved his songwriting skills and he started getting radio play in L.A. However, some of the overt gang references in the song led to protests and it was eventually pulled from the airwaves. Still, he made some strides by appearing on one of Sno...
This article will explore 21 of the best old-school rappers and those who aspire to be among them. This list will always focus on rappers from throughout history (beginning 1970 up through the present day), not just current artists.
While majority of rappers with dreads are of black descent and African American, Lil Pump’s parents are from Colombia which makes his hair texture differ from the rest on this list. With that said Lil Pump’s dreadlock journey was started by keeping rubber bands in the root in order to ...
Nothing is more fun than updating this list every six months when new data comes out. Though it’s usually the same players moving up or down one or two places based on recent investments, we include all of the data we can get from publicly available sources. It may not be perfectly ac...
In homage to New York’s impact on hip-hop, the Complex Music team has curated a list ranking 50 of the greatest rappers from the city (and its surrounding areas)—from some of its founding fathers and mothers to young bloods who have injected new energy into the city’s sound in the...
The point of this article isn’t to list ALL japanese rappers -to be honest, my knowledge of the J-rap scene wouldn’t be extended enough for me to have this kind of ambition- just to summarize a bunch ofrelevant & accessible Japanese rappersfor anyone willing to start dipping into J-...
Shawn Corey-Carter, best known asJay-Z, had to be the first name on this list. He’s an iconic figure in the hip-hop scene and one of the best 2000s rappers. Jay-Z emerged as an era-defining figure of the 2000s with his best-selling albumsThe BlueprintandThe Black Album. ...