The WACK emcees!!!

[1980DRE]

If there was a rap trio group called "The WACK Emcees.", which rappers would you put  in that group?

imna  put
Kevin Federline, Jkwon, Tony Yayo....

[Cowboy]

Chingo Bling, Yung Joc, Gucci Mane

[BigBDrugStores]

dpg, e40, ghostface, abunch of cats from the west

[DipsetGeneral]

^^^^e-40?


mine would be,   Rick Ross, Sean Paul, Chingy, Nelly, and Yung Joc.  Man those 5 suck, Nelly used to be good but he's trash now.

[Stone Cold is Bout It, Bout It]

They're Called Dipset

[suckaa free]

spider loc, rick ross, mike jones, jay-z, paul wall.

[$Eg2$]

They're Called Dipset

LOL

I gotta go wit YUng Joc, Mr Capone-e- Tony Yayo, Hot Rod, spider Loc and Hey Kanye stick to producin and ya main man Jim Jones

[westkoastanostra]

They're Called Dipset

loon, camron, mase...a deadly boring ass duo that would put u to sleep like horse tranquilizer

[westkoastanostra]

^^^add fabolous on there too....

[J Bananas]

tupac, will smith, vanilla ice

[Teddy Roosevelt]

Jim Jones, Paul Wall, Bow Wow.

[smp4life]

B-Legit, Bizarre, Daz

[Narrator]

Not surprisingly, everyone's listing rappers from the past few years like there wasn't a lot of wackness before then.

I remember the days when it was almost impossible to find anyone outside of the mainstream who respected Bone Thugs-N-Harmony.  It's kinda ironic to me that they've developed such a huge cult following since.

[youngmessnucca]

They're Called Dipset

loon, camron, mase...a deadly boring ass duo that would put u to sleep like horse tranquilizer

LOL so true, and I can't believe nobody mentioned The Game. I'd also have to put Trina, Lil' Kim and ALOT of Bay rappers. Jim Jones is trash too.

And Bone Thugs always got respect. Bizzy & Krazyie were some of the top lyricsts of there genre.

[Narrator]

And Bone Thugs always got respect. Bizzy & Krazyie were some of the top lyricsts of there genre.

You kidding me?  Ten years ago, cats used to talk about Bone the same way y'all talk about Nelly or Yung Joc or anyone in G-Unit.  They got some love in the West cause they were down with Eazy and cause most of their production was G-Funk, but just about everywhere else, they were considered the epitome of everything wrong with hip-hop, the commercial pop-thugs of the moment that everyone loved to hate.  I remember when I used to post on Steve "Flash" Juon's site (one of the first online hip-hop message boards, BTW), cats would trip off on me cause I said I liked Bone when they were all bumpin Digable Planets and De La Soul and their old PE tapes.  If you said you liked Bone back then, you usually had to justify it by saying, "Ah, they're a guilty pleasure", not that you respected them as artists who had their own unique style.  Niggas would look at you like you was fuckin crazy if you said that.

So no, Bone almost never got respect back in the day.  I never would've figured that a decade later, everybody would be talking about "E 1999 Eternal" in the same breath as "Doggystyle" or "Ready To Die" as one of the best hip-hop albums of the 90s.  It just goes to show you how everyone's always looking for rappers to scapegoat for the state of hip-hop, when the truth is that that's been going on since forever.

And BTW, I would hardly call either Bizzy or Krayzie "top lyricists".  They did show some growth on their solo albums (especially Krayzie's "Thug On Da Line" record), but Bone was always far more about style than substance.  They did what they did really well, but don't get it twisted - none of them niggas can be called "lyricists" by any stretch of imagination.