The 55 Best Rappers of All Time 

He put drake first before Eminem lol

@@MusicLover-ko1mq it’s alphabetical soooo...?

@@MusicLover-ko1mq hahahahahah

@@jumpoff8515 lol

Took me a moment to get the joke

Underrated comment.

Number 3: Logics biracial side

@@tekkies9620 he’s half black btw

Did you know he’s biracial?

@kauz yea but he’s biracial

Yeah, I saw him intimately in 2010, at a uni bar. But his new album is truly nice, I like how his beef with El-P given him some street cred.

Don't forget JID, either

I’d argue Boldy James, Little Simz and Mach-Hommy deserve consideration too if he ever revisits it

😂

Wait was he on this list

@@jackq6243 r/woooosh

@@travis9260 ah yes originality

@dayum son What a troglodyte comment

Nah nah nah you are getting confused with IceJJFish, this is clearly IceJJFish on all 55 spots

@@option7 ur sleeping on gawne and kid buu and eminem, the best rappers of all time who are just better than anyone else, even lil pump and icejjfish

@@nish8399 dude i so fawk with kid buu

@@biscuitnougat5749 i fawk with kid buu and eminem, so does melon he fawks with them

@@nish8399 lmfao

tbh I disagree with him saying that his music hasn't aged. Maybe the jokes are more offensive, but his 2005 album compiled with his biggest songs has been on billboard for ages

Big L did horrorcore back in 1995,in his album Lifestyle Of Da Poor And Dangerous

Schism>

@@saif_shahid1 Gravediggaz did it one year earlier

big L and Gravediggaz made horrorcore cool. eminem is ass. he hasn't made a goof record in 20 years because he forgot how to rap. He is maybe top 50 but overall is just a mid rapper

I'm gonna throw a /s down just for good measure in case there's even a 1% chance that someone doesn't realize that I'm joking.

💀

Should be at number 3

In the trash, guy has like two songs

with his dog

In the trash where he belongs

joe budden’s a great rapper, but man i really wish bernie won the democratic nominee instead

Poor MF Doom... Poor Kendrick Lamar...

Bushwick Bill!

Aesop Rock in the top ten

Lol. Didn't realize Aesop was actually on the list when I posted. Seen dude live a few times & was surprised by his height. Same with Meth. Well over 6'

I was hoping for IQ ratings on this one

Kool Keith 100% deserves a mention. First Come First Served is the most quotable hip hop album ever imo

No Sex Style I don't want this list

And what about Mr. Gerbik, the 208 year-old uncle of Doctor Octagon? *Half-Shark Half-Mannnn* _Skin like Alligator, carrying a dead walrus. Myerereraaaahhhhhhhh_

I'm dead lmao

@@vinny8475 so is he , which is fucked up

@@manuelmorales6191 dark humor at its finest

Edge at its finest, also we’re all dieing one day so way make fun of a man who is dead when your death approaches too

I think big pun should be on here

LMAOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

It's like a cowboy hat

Fantano is the only guy who can successfully outpizza the hut

hey man are you excited for the new avalanches? ( i actually liked wildlower but im kinda meh so far about WWALY)

It’s not pizza hut... It’s heisenberg’s fedora!

Edit: and redman

Inspectah has the best opening verse to a rap song imo in triumph, leaving him out is blasphemous

No, he was talking about lil nas x. Dummy.

@@ViolentMLG they’re joking

@@Kaquince15 he was joking too

@@star.s penis

Ok ✅

Are you kidding? That’s exactly the level of content I expect from him.

Usually a big fan of clever comments Chai, but posting something like this on a 36 minute video isn't the level of thought I expected from you

@@neal8759 it’s not clever when almost this exact comment is posted on pretty much every one of Fantano’s videos.

@@gavin4056 Exactly

@@neal8759 Why does the video length matter? Why can't this dude make jokes?

And Guru, in what world is Nicki Minaj better than Guru?

@@francebread8947 I swear that’s why I hate making list. There is no perfect list. They gonna shit on a ledge no matter what

@@RhinosaursRex exactly

would hip hop even be the same?

Bars

Hip hop heads. I think that is called hip hop heads

no matter how big he is every project sounds like it was bankrolled off tips working pizza delivery on weeknights

@@aldenkaiser248 Nah bro, Skelethon sounded legit in the production department.

i dont see the problem.. If they heard of him, it means they know his stuff well. That's what that sentence means. If he would have just said "known" instead of "well known" then yea sure it's a poor sentence but no its not.

I mean technically this makes sense. You can be aware of someone, but not know them well

homie straight up had a stroke

@@pdlAaron but he said vice versa

I lol'd at that part too

he continues by saying "as someone who..." makes perfect sense lol

I love big boi flow

Big Boi is so underrated

Wow I’m actually shocked that anyone could have that opinion 😅

Melon is biracist

But Whatabout Cal, pitting his roommate as number 1? So NOT cool

unfunny no laugh

Moabpanda01 you just copied my comment. What a loser

@@eduardodias8302 lol, you both said a joke with a punchline that's been overused all to hell.

For a second I there was another person part of ASAP named rock instead of rocky.

Malibu Ken?

Listen to the sentence. Maybe if u paid attention, u wouldn't comment something so ignorant

@@sarang8585 I appreciate you blue cheese man keep it cool~!

@@sarang8585 Same

@@jonathanjreitiny2262 It was so annoying

@@ethanielclyne5810 don’t beat yourself up

@@ethanielclyne5810 it’s okay we don’t blame you. Please come home now, you’ve been gone for three days and your children miss you.

He definitely got Shaq right though

go look at the replies of my comment on that vid i predicted the future

Ahh naw I would've preferred just a straight up favorite rappers list, numbered. No balls!

Should have at least tiered them

I think it’s unfair to quantify something as subjective as musicianship, so this is nice

what's your top 10? can be in no order

@@davidparker7216 1. 2Pac 2. Eminem 3. Biggie 4. Nas 5. Jay-Z 6. Rakim 7. Kanye West 8. Guru 9. Lil Wayne 10. Lauryn Hill

@@MattD86where’s bladee

facts

Its not exclusive if everyone is on there

@@2007NissanAltima 75 is still excluding 90+% of rappers including a lot of great and influental ones

Soulja boy created the internet bless Soulja👏🏼

@Antonio Nieves soulja boy= GODS FATHER

"Phone sex? Sexting? Getting nudes from Shawty? I CREATED that, y'all wouldn't have that without kiss me thru the phone"

aye y'all check out my music ! my song goodbye is actually pretty good if you wanna support ! thanks

wack

he deserves it, and that nigga is STILL going strong, he for sure ending up in that top 30-15 range by the end of his AMAZING career, and he is gonna end up top 15-5 producers of all time as well.

@Woowow like seed or Calvin harris

@Woowow zedd

Hell yeah

There are plenty.. J Dilla, Preemo etc!!

@@debrabardensteele9942 deb why must u troll, it would be an easy list maybe just 1000+ names, it would be chill

Mf doom is a trash can

@@viznshock4361 weird way of spelling "literal godlike supervillain who died to save our sins"

@@viznshock4361 I mean I guess you’re technically right DOOM can spit bars hotter than hell fire while wearing a trash can on his head “if you see tin head be duckin down”

I mean he didn't have big pun and big L so he had to have a lot of things to say

@@pintatatphpaobe9563 maybe hes speaking a different language

Agree he was the most influential man in hip hop and a 🔥 producer

but he didn’t write his own music

@@FeliciathaGOAT okay? That doesn't change any of his accomplishments

@@yourmomscomment true, but it means that he isnt much of a rapper, if this was hip hop artists hed be number 1 and its not even close

Dre is not a great rapper. Stop mixing his production and cultural impact with his rapping skills. You need to seperate them.

Oi believe

I didn’t learn he had died until today. Shit. I’m sad now

@@micromints1735 don’t be, man. Just be happy about what he accomplished when he lived.

Never Forget ✊

rip dmx

@@2s006 yh. RIP DMX.

Sad to see no phife

Lol my boy says the exact opposite, hates his “soft ass voice”

MizzzyMike yeah respect to all q-tip fans but i cant stand his voice.

Tribee

Yes, his shit is rock solid but it flows like fluid

Aesop rockys fables

Yeah I love jukebox joints by him too. Deserved spot

Fashion Killa still a banger

Live.love.aesop

@@Chad-vk6fb long live aesop

Let’s say hypothetically

Ben Shapiro didn’t write wap, he hated it!😂

@@masterofdisguise9564 it’s a joke

@@lucasblanchard6002 don’t

Lucas Blanchard you need be wooshing yourself right now bruh

they're both on mine lol

Fax

@Johnnathan L. LMFAO

Thats what the point of the mask is

He forgor

WHY ARE YOU HERE

hood politics

@@theoneonly5368 people always talk about who this is and who that is, and whos real and whos whack. ig im real

clever ill give u dat

Give him 2 more strong run the Jewels albums and I'd agree.

Boo boo

Havoc too IMO.

mobb deep = goat

Facts, I think Prodigy, Big L and Big Pun are the biggest omissions on this list

To this day i still dont understand why people refuse to give Havoc the same level of respect

@@boglemeister maybe 'cause havoc was a bit of a dick to prodigy on occasion? Like that homophobic shit he threw at him about his time on prison? I know they made up in the end but still

Sexy

Still watched every minute 🤷‍♂️

But it's true! he is a goood boy

@@6ri66s2 😳

??????

Um...Jay Z????

@@deletingyoutubetoday9563 not top 20 to me more like top 30

I'd place Lauryn Hill well above Queen Latifa.

@@callmecraig3046 maybe I would too if Lauryn Hill had more albums but I like all of Queen Latifah's album's except for her latest 1 I haven't herd that yet i think it was from 2009 didn't realizes she dropped one more until recently

@Karas my bad, was at the wrong placement. I didn’t see Kool G Rap as well.

Nah the thing is Luda is probably the most underrated rapper nowadays. We forget he had a VERY successful rap career. For his time he had great flow and punch lines too

I was wondering if he'd add earl

Big pun🐐

@@monsterwith21faces92 Of Course I forgot about the man who singlehandedly put on the hispanic community to lyrical hip hop.....GOD!!!!!

@@patrickmessle5664 fr👍🏼

Very surprised when I didnt see killer mike on this list. Just based on rapping alone I dont think you can name more than 10 people who hold a candle

Well he hasn’t made anything good in… how many years?

That is alphabetical, Brown is his surname name, so if he’s alphabetizing it like a roster, it supersedes the first name. “Thought” and “B” aren’t surnames-they’re just a part of one moniker, so they don’t count

@@jermainebryant96 the editor actually added that for some reason Danny Brown was the only name out of place, so I guess it's just a mistake

Brown danny

@@jermainebryant96 Erick Sermon was listed under E so 🙃

HOW MENTAL ILLNESS CLOSES DOWN OUR MINDS It may sound odd or impolite to suggest that most of us, when we are in the grip of mental illness, are no longer capable of thinking. That’s not how it feels of course. From the inside, our minds have probably never felt so busy and so focused. From the moment we wake up in panic and self-disgust, we are ruminating, pondering, exploring catastrophic scenarios, scanning our past, attacking ourselves for things we have done and not done, questioning our legitimacy, talking to ourselves about how repulsive we are, paying attention to strange voices recommending that we are evil and sick and headed for the worst - and wondering how and whether we should kill ourselves. Our minds don’t give us a moment of respite, we may rub our temples to cool them down and when eventually we fall asleep, we are exhausted by the marathons our thoughts have run inside us. Nevertheless, we may still want to insist (for the kindest and most redemptive of reasons) that we have not been thinking at all, that none of this hive of activity deserves the title of thinking; it is just illness. To be mentally ill is to be swamped by secretions of fear, self-hatred and despair that - like surging seawater through a pumping station control desk - knock out all our higher faculties, all our normal ability to sensibly distinguish one thing from another, to find perspective, to weigh arguments judiciously, to see the wood for the trees, to correctly assess danger, to plan realistically for the future, to determine risks and opportunities and, most importantly, to be kind and generous to ourselves. None of these faculties function any longer, but - and this is the true nastiness of the illness - we are never and nowhere alerted to our loss. We are both very ill and very unaware. It looks as though we are continuing to think as we have always done - with all the usual intelligence and reliability - but that we just have a lot more to worry about. Nowhere along the way does our mind generously tell us that it has begun to look at reality through a distorted lens, that it has - at some point in the day - to all effects stopped working. No bell goes off, no hazard lights start to flash. The mind merely insists that it is giving us all the normal readings, and that we have objectively entered hell. Yet the truth is that we have lost command of about a third of our minds and are pulling together our ideas from the most degenerate, traumatised, unreliable and vicious aspects of ourselves. It’s as if a group of terrorists had donned white coats and were impersonating prestigious scientists in order to lay out a set of vicious theories and prognoses. Once we have been through a few cycles of distorted thinking and recovered contact with reality, we should do ourselves the kindness of accepting that - on an intermittent basis - we will lose command of our higher faculties and that there is nothing embarrassing in recognising the possibility and accommodating ourselves to it very carefully. This is the nature of an illness around which we will need to take the greatest care. We should start to get better at detecting when illness might be drawing in on us, what the triggers for it might be. Then when it is upon us, we should do and decide nothing. We shouldn’t start to send emails, deliver judgement on our lives or plan for the future. We should - as much as possible - stop all mental activity and rest. We might listen to music, have a long bath, watch something untaxing on television and perhaps take a calming pill. We should also try to plug our brain into that of someone else, to benefit from their greater powers of reason. We should have a trusted friend or therapist whom we can call on at such moments and ask them if they might recalibrate and regulate our thoughts with an injection of their wisdom and insight. We should willingly put them in charge of determining how things are for us: they should be allowed to tell us what we are worth, what we have done, what there is to worry about - and we should do our best to discount the contrary, doom-laden signals that come from inside us. We may have grown up with the idea that so long as we are conscious, our minds will be working optimally. But mental illness teaches us a more complicated lesson: our higher faculties (those that give us access to reality) are extremely vulnerable and perilously prone to shut down under the sway of our emotional complexities - and to do so without telling us . We should strive to become thinkers who recognise when they are no longer able to think. For a copy of this essay: www.theschooloflife.com/thebo...

Why isn’t J Cole on this list?

Bro Anderson Paak is a singer, not a rapper...

Kanye West 20:20?? Is melon trying to tell us something?

There's also no Killer Mike

"Aesop Rocky" lol clearly well known to ONLY those who are aware of him

thats true

Fuck that caught me offguard

Where’s Adam Yauch??

Nutritious nuts

Matty B?

Alexis Texas

comment stealer

He suckz tho lol Loads of wack rappers on this wack ass list.

REAL rap, NO trap beats, NO ghostwriters, NO mumble rap wait, is this eminem?

@@Paulito-ym4qc not it's Joeybadass

@@Paulito-ym4qc eminem is the green day of rap confirmed

At least MCR made it. The Godfather's of emo rap.

i was about to make a joke about swedish songwriters but looks like i'm too late.

110% agree bro

Definitely one of the most consistent rappers out right now.

amen

hopefully same with Earl and JID

Same feeling about this. Not yet, but as few years will pass, Denzel will slowly go down in history as one of the most charismatic and distinct styles of the new generation of hip-hop

I think Nicki Minaj is a very talented rapper despite being an absolute fucking asshole

Na I gotta say I’m with him on this one

He definitely got Tom Macdonald correct for 2nd place

@@InspectahReese don't disrespect shaq like that

He def does bro

Idk where this meme started but I laugh everytime i see a variation

I'm surprised Pink Fong wasn't here, Baby Shark easily the most influential sing of the internet age.

@@BigMoney398 Why wasnt dora on here, have you heard the theme song?

Corndog

I love that bar about her being lightning on her feet. So introspective even out of context with the song.

😂😂😂

He's a producer much more than a rapper

@@umberto488 I mean Kanye and Juicy J are more relevant as producers than as rappers. Many of the artists are on the list because they are/were popular or influential. If those sorts of artists are qualified to be on a list like this, which I think they are, there is reason to not have Dr. Dre who is more important to hip-hop than 90% of the rappers on the list.

@@Evan_Schaeferingdr Dre barely even writes his verses

@@crustycrumpetkaiser6734 Sure, but Kanye and Drake have also used tons of ghostwriters over the years on some of their most popular works, and they both made it on the list. In terms of actual rapping ability, there isn't a great argument for either of them, so I don't see much reason to not include Dre. This is doubly relevant because there are many rappers with long careers that are more technically capable than all of them, J. Cole, for instance, didn't make the cut.

Spot on. Killer Mike is the only major omission from that list which is a bit of a sin

This. These two and Guru stuck out to me as people whose absence kind of shocked me

Killer mike should 100% be on this list.

No doubt I agree. However this is easily one of the best lists that I've seen recently considering there's really few rappers that got left out.

I agree. I also think if Big Boi and Andre both deserve spots and if Mike and El both deserve spots, Phife Dawg most DEFINITELY deserves a spot along with Q-Tip

C3PO is way better than R2D2, what are you talking about? Sure R2D2 might have a slightly better flow, but he has *nothing* on C3PO as far as lyrics go.

Löded Dîper?

Joe Budden?

River cumo be like ooooowweeeeeoooo I lookjust like Buddy Hoooollyyyy

St Anger snare got some 🔥🔥 records

Fax

F-ck Vin Diesel

I am groot

Not even close to the top 55

@@WyWid excuse me 🤫🤐

Sorry fbi even as a joke this is an L

Thanks FBI

...if he was Black...

@@donkeydarko77 what?

🤨

M e t h o d Man

Earl sweatpants

Jadakiss, Prodigy, Kurupt too. But that's the nature of any list, always gonna have some big ones left out!

@@TheAnthonywhoisme oh damn, how could I forget about Prodigy...

how is there a top 55 list without big pun?

Ah, but this is the top fifty *five* rappers. Not the top 50.

@@wenweru1 true 😂 he must’ve gotten that 55th spot

He said delegitimizes is because of how list was made valuing purely lyrical rappers at top with some questionable people and than thru drake in there, not cause he disagrees nesscarily

Also that was a ranking with specific spots saying 1 is better than two is better than 3 and so on. Anthony doesn’t do that here and has him on due to his influence on the genera today which is fair.

I think the key issue he and the rest of the list's critics had was Drake's placement numerically over so many other rappers that are infinitely better (not the fact that he was on the list at all)

The list is flawed for not having half those. When he did a previous video talking about someone else's top 50 he had dmx higher than 30. Inconsistent and trying to be hipster

True but Killer Mike and Big Pun dont really have a “discography” to be honest. I’d add Luda to this list with a bit more ease.

@@orangesexcalibur Nicki Minaj changed the game. I like Flatbush Zombies, but Nicki was far more influential. Without Nicki's presence in the game then Meg, Cardi and Doja would not be in positions they are today.

I think he’s focusing way too much on cultural impact because he doesn’t even like LL cool J and he put him on the list.

At LEAST DMX should have been on this. I mean cmon. Make the list longer and have them in order Mr. Fantano this is dumb.

Finally, another Shaq stan

He is the tallest :D

he didn’t work height into this list because it would be too stacked for mr. o’neal

SHAQ DIESEL BABY

Lol facts

That would be a thatistheplan upload for sure

Its alphabetical not chronological

@@shawndeas8027 budden is 3 wym?

"The closest thing he had to hits is smacking melons" Damn Anthony

He was arguing that he was so high on the list. He was in the low 20's.

@@zander2473 he said it was insulting to have him on the list period

@Saksham Airee exactly and he said DMX should be higher in the top 50 list but didn't include him on his list😂😂 like what??

Drake is imo top 100, maybe top 50 in terms of amount of quality songs/catalogue, but obviously not top 50 in terms of lyrical ability, probably not top 1000.

I guess when you really think about it you have no other choice but put him in a list like that. He's too influencial from a cultural point of view and his commercial success is just too overwhelming to leave him out of this list.

this isn't in order is it?

@@yubbityyubba7749 just watch the damn video

@@Pontif11 I did

@@Pontif11 but its 36 mins long. I skipped through it. some of us got shit to do

@SCREWED UP WORLD same people have Eazy E and dr dre on theirs by that logic