Commercial/Maintstream Rappers Got More Skills than "Underground" Rappers

[Ghost In The 'Lac]

^BET freestyle cipher, ALL of em spit fucking flames, Ace, Juelz, Fab, Jada all proving why they are so popular, because theyre dope. So shut up. Freestylin is easy to these guys, and they just shitted on 100000 underground heads who live on freestyling


I dont know why theres this myth thats floated around by backpackers that somehow the rappers they listen to have more "skills" on the mic than mainstream high selling rappers. The best most best and interesting rappers are always normally the best selling -

-Wu Tang (when they were at their lyrical peak they were going platinum)
-Jay Z (best rapper alive and the guy that all backpack rappers try to copy style)
-Outkast
-Cam'ron
-2pac
-Biggie
-Beasties
-Lil Wayne (BET 2008 lyricist of the year, and 8 time grammy nominee)
-Kanye
-DMX
-Fabolous
-Snoop Dogg
-Eminem
-Mobb Deep (these grimy ass niggas were selling millions of fuckign records in the 90's, mainly because P was so insane on the mic)
-Ludacris



et etc these are all the biggest selling rappers who are certified 'mainstream' and often have songs in the top 100. They are all charismatic people, able to put solid rhythemic flow into songs. Look at some of these mainstream rappers appearnces on "Pop" songs, like Beyonce's "crazy in love", (or Luda on Ushers "Yeah"), Jigga murked that verse, NO backpack rapper could ever spit a verse with that style, bounce, rhythem, IF THEY COULD, then they would, no one LIKES to be broke. And when they say things like "oh we just stay poor because we love the art form of hip hop, if we wanted to get rich, we could, easily"

Ya right!!


Wack rappers dont sell.

Simple as that.

Soulja Boys new album just FLOPPED, you know why? Cus hes wack!

Gangstarr, a typical underground group, dont sell records, because Guru isnt a particulary intresting or great rapper.

And dont even try and tell me Kanye cant rap. Your way off point with that, thats another myth thats been created, Kanye's style is being copied more than Jigga's style right now. All the new indie hipster rappers are all biting Kanye's style (badly), Kanye is the most underrated MC, hes puts everyting into all his verses, theyre clever, witty, emotional, lyrical. Most people are jaelous of Kanye, I never seen a man hated on in all my life than that guy.

[Senator C. Palantine]

jay-z has the skill to write good music, but he records Excuse Me Miss

[Ritter]

Wrong.

You insist way too much on record sales. Underground is not underground because they're bad, underground is underground because they aren't on a label that sells, sometimes not even on a label.

That tells nothing of their skill, just their economic position in the rap industry.

Check my sig (not you D-Black, this is real music), and that's the answer to this thread.

[Ghost In The 'Lac]

^ahahahahaah

[DR. NICK RIVIERA]

saying Mobb Deep sold millions just because of Prodigy is idiotic...they were sellin records cuz of the grimy music and a [actually fake] thug talk

[DR. NICK RIVIERA]

and Canibus, Holo, Chino XL, Vakill, Virtuoso, Def Juxxies, .... have more MC skillz than most of those on the list.

Seriously.

[Ritter]

One word -> Shad.

[Ghost In The 'Lac]

and Canibus, Holo, Chino XL, Vakill, Virtuoso, Def Juxxies, .... have more MC skillz than most of those on the list.

Seriously.

No.

[oldie]

i dunno bout these dudes having more skill thn the underground but i admit tht Ace Hood (whoever he is, never herd of dude) did kick it nice, but tbh u cnt rlly tell if it was really free'd.

who cares how many records a guy sells as long as the music good.

[oDoUoSoKo]

Wack rappers dont sell.

Ghost dont be selling shit. He's wack? EPMD just sold like one shipping of CDs..(eloels) they wack?

[oDoUoSoKo]

this motherfucker got Madlib on his Avatar...u think he sells bigtime?

[Wu-Tang Gambino]

You are an idiot.

[oDoUoSoKo]

i think this guy just wants to stir up controversy...dont humor him...he is a fuckin idiot. This aint opinion...this is ignorance.

[Tecknowledgist]

can we just quarantine ghostlaced to gen chat?

[YungSunny]

-Wu Tang (when they were at their lyrical peak they were going platinum)
-Jay Z (best rapper alive and the guy that all backpack rappers try to copy style)
-Outkast
-Cam'ron
-2pac
-Biggie
-Beasties
-Lil Wayne (BET 2008 lyricist of the year, and 8 time grammy nominee)
-Kanye
-DMX
-Fabolous
-Snoop Dogg
-Eminem
-Mobb Deep (these grimy ass niggas were selling millions of fuckign records in the 90's, mainly because P was so insane on the mic)
-Ludacris

I'm loving the ignorance man.
Backpackers like old-school mainstream hip-hop. The reason I'm telling you this is basically 90% of the mainstream rappers you listed are old school, which makes this thread invalid.