Biggie rating West Coast rappers?

[HEC]

I think I might pick this up as well, looks interesting

[Snoopafly-1986]

Ice-T got some classics,no doubt about that...
Pure technical I would rate Kurupt WAY higher on the list. But he probably have his reasons,so it would cool if we could get some scans of the pages about the West Coast rappers.

yeah some scans would be dope to see his reasons

hopefully UCC put some up he gave some good info

Sorry guys, don't gots no scanner 

With Kurupt he basically says that he's generally not a fan of gangsta rap, and the lack of content, but Kurupt is really lyrical with it. He also says Kurupt has a great vocabulary and he has great battle skills

I think West Coast MCs come off badly sometimes because if they have a more melodic flow, and simpler rhymes (which often sounds just as dope I think, as it's just a different style), then it won't seem as complex as some of the East Coast cats out there. Also the content of west coast often glorifies guns, bitches, money, etc, and East Coast have a lot of people who either talk about different things or talk about that stuff but not glorifying it (though that's more just stereotypical view of west coast rappers, seeing as west coast also has its pharcydes, dilated peoples, J5, etc). East coast also have all the pioneers of pretty much every style - rakim, g rap, big daddy kane, slick rick, krs one, etc etc

The book is worth buying IMO, you can probably get it second hand over amazon

props man Kurupt is my favorite rapper good to hear he said good things about him

would like to get the book but I'm either studying or on here so don't have much time to read it

[Flip]

Hey Chad I remember looking over this book at a bookstore a while back, good read,
also do you remember Moe Dee had his own book "50 greatest MCs' or something like that,
I remember reading it and he had Kurupt in it said some good things about him,
I think he was ranked like #37 or some shit just trying to remember

Naaahh don´t remember that book,he´s ranked #37?
Not sure where I would rank Kurupt objectivly myself....

That Kool Mo Dee book is pretty good,
Kurupt at 39, 2pac at 13, Ice Cube at 18, Ras Kass at 21, Xzibit at 27, Snoop at 33, Ice T at 35, Mack 10 at 49

Thanx for the info,can you post the whole list? and maybe some scans?

1. Melle Mel
2. Rakim
3. Krs-One
4. Big Daddy Kane
5. Kool Mo Dee
6. Grandmaster Caz
7. LL Cool J
8. Chuck D
9. Notorious BIG
10. Lauryn Hill
11. Nas
12. Queen Latifah
13. Tupac
14. Kool G Rap
15. Jay-Z
16. Treach
17. Method Man
18. Ice Cube
19. MC Lyte
20. Redman
21. Ras Kass
22. GZA
23. Will Smith
24. Busta Rhymes
25. Heavy D
26. Xzibit
27. Common
28. Pharoahe Monch
29. Black Thought
30. Scarface
31. Kurtis Blow
32. Run
33. Snoop Dogg
34. Guru
35. Ice-T
36. Doug E Fresh
37. Keith Murray
38. Mystikal
39. Kurupt
40. Slick Rick
41. Big Pun
42. Lil Kim
43. MC Shan
44. Craig Mack
45. Jeru The Damaja
46. Fat Joe
47. Spoonie Gee
48. Foxy Brown
49. Mack 10
50. Just-Ice

At the time the book came out, Eminem had only just blown, so Kool Mo Dee was saying it was too early to tell with him and some other dudes that had just come out. I thought the list was pretty good, some odd choices (Slick Rick way down at the 40???), but the stuff written about each is interesting, worth getting the book IMO

props but wack list dude ranks himself 5th

Kurupt at 39? dude is top 10 MC at least top 20

LOL at Foxy Brown being on that list

Bit of an East coast thing going down there lol

[ktothac]

any proof of BIG's list bein legit? how you gonna say you love dangerous crew but dont like spice at all? and kool mo dee's list is bogus

[simon]

FUCK BIGGIE! tupac is that nigga mayne .

[westside159]

MACC 10 belling through the hood at #49 ... W/S

[Mr_Quiksta]

Yall heard some shit went down when he went to sacramento and all of 40 waters homies surrounded his limo and he had to call fonzarelli to get his boys to back off

Whos that chick in ur sig dawg?!?!?!

And is this interview real??? Cud we get some auidio?

Good read tho...

[Birdie]

R.A. The Rugged One: The white boy??!! The one that I did the jam with??? That's who you talkin about? Two...might be a three, I did the song, they paid me a lot of money, that's why I did it. The beat was knockin.

Altho I love Biggie...

... honestly, this line sucks as hell. Do songs for some money (without checkin' some skillz of the other side) is bitchin'.

[Black Excellence]

Biggie Speaks On Other Rappers (Old Intervieew)
 
Redman: The new Redman!?! Seven. I can't dis him cuase I know he got skills. He get busy on the lyrics but i can't feel his new sh!t, his new
cosmic crazy shit. I'm used to the clean cut blowout fly nigga. When I met
the nigga he was a fly nigga, you know what I'm sayin', now he on some
different shit. I really don't like when a rapper come out and they blow
up the way they are and they come out again on some changed up shit. To
me, that's like getting some good coke from poppy and then getting some
money and then be like,fuck that! I'm getting some more 45ths, some brown
shit and then bag that up. Why would you change your plan? That's what he
did to me.

E-40: No rating! Zero! I don't fuck with duke at all. At all.

Too $hort: Ten. That's my dog right there. I love that nigga. That's my man. The calibre of shit he got. Cocktails shit, i ain't got to see that
shit yet. I know that shit is hot! I was with him in Atlanta and we were
just kickin it and shit. That's my dog. I love that man.

Spice 1: Zero. I don't like that guy at all.

Craig Mack: I don't really like him too much either dog. I can't give him
a zero though cause he got some hot shit but like five...four, since he
on some different shit, some shit I can't relate to. I'm from the hood, he
from the suburbs so it's completely different shit. I don't really like
the music too much. I like the beats but that (scats) it's not rhymes for
me, it's just some pretty kid shit.

Mc Eiht: I like Eiht's shit. I give Eiht like an eight. He got some hard
shit, some real shit.

DJ Quik: I like the shit on the soundtrack. That's shit is hot. I give
him a seven...six.

Snoop Doggy Dogg: Snoopy??? I like Snoop. I give him like an eight. I like his shit.

KRS-One: KRS-One?? Naahhh...I don't like KRS no more cause he just think he's too dope. He let his ego take over his shit and that's what brings
him down. When he was like that (shouts "Blow it to yorself"), when he was
like that, then he was a ten but now, 'I am Hip Hop'!!! Eat a dick nigga.
Eat a muthafuckin dick!

Guru: Premier??? Umm...who else I give a ten too? I like Keith. Keith's
shit is hot.

Outkast: I like them too...six...seven.

Big Mike: Six...Seven

Scarface: Seven...eight. He got some hard shit. Face got some hard shit.

R.A. The Rugged One: The white boy??!! The one that I did the jam with??? That's who you talkin about? Two...might be a three, I did the song, they paid me a lot of money, that's why I did it. The beat was knockin.

Dr.Dre & Ed Lover: Those are my boys. I just like them niggas, know what I'm sayin. You don't rate niggas. I just like them niggas. They just friends.

Cypress Hill: I used to like them. The first, shit, that first "How i can
just kill a man" joint, I was liking that but that new age smoke out shit...fuck it!

New Kingdom: Who? Never heard of them.

Da Brat: I like Da Brat. I like her sh!t. I give her a nice six. She ain't
the dopest female MC but I like her single. I like how she comin'.

The topic of females MC's arrives and Biggie Speaks. "The dopest female MC
that has a record deal that's out right now is Rage, but my Mc that's
coming out, Little Kim, is the dopest female MC that's coming out ever. Ever.
She gets busy like a nigga that's why I like her style. Hard shit! She
speaks on suckin dicks...,shooting niggas, real shit that real bitches do
that they are just scared to talk about, just how I came out, on some real
shit."

Naughty By Nature: I like all of em. I got a relationship with Treach. I
got a relationship with Vinnie and I got a relationship with K, but you know what I'm sayin, the music itself it seems that they just wanna make that one hit. Once they got that one hit everything else don't count. That's why I can't dig that. I want a nigga that's gonna be like, 'Yo, I heard an album that's like nine joints I like three, I like maybe the single, the remix. I don't want no album like that.

Coolio: I like that new joint, "Mama I'm In love with a Gangsta". I like
that joint. I just like them hard niggas, them niggas that just be leveled
out.

Ice Cube: The old one or the new one? Kickiyaya? It's not the same shit. It's like niggas is changing too much for me and I can't keep the
love. I respect the nigga because I know back in the day he used to do
his thing so I can't diss him but the new shit right now is...

Dr. Dre: Beats? Incredible!

Ant Banks: I like Banks. I like that whole shit though. Ant Banks shit,
the whole Dangerous crew shit."

Sir Mix-a-lot: Nothing! I love his coats. I would love to be in the game
like how that nigga get in the game. I wanna be just as large as those
fools but get busy, cut the bullsh!t. Nigga saying...I got millions but
God damn that nigga get on the mic it's just something terrible dog. I
just wanna get busy on the mic more than anything. The little nigga game
the niggas play with the girls, man! A nigga just throw some bitches in
they shit and they just sit there, like from the "Tootsie Roll" shit to
the "Whoot! There it is!" shit. It's the same shit. You get trapped up
with these hoes. That shit ain't got nothing to do with hip hop. Nothing!

K-Dee: "The greatest MC in the world"?? I like that track. Nigga don't
really be saying nothing to me, you know, like lyrically he don't be
saying nothing to me. What make it so bad is when they come out with some
shit that's like half ass and like you wonder like, "I wonder how the
video will be." And then they got a video with this nigga spinning this
bottle and I'm like OK, what's gonna happen when the bottle stops and the
bottle is spinning for like three fucking minutes and then it stops and
everybody laughs like ha, and he spins again!!! Who directed this? Cube,
it had to be. It's just that funny style shit that I can't fuck with. I
like flat on the table shit, like my shit. They try to stick me for my
shit I shot em. Period. There's no helicopter scenes with me talkin to
somebody like , 'Well, how's the record doing?' There's no shit on there
that you could be like why is that sh!t in there. That's how I like the
shit, just regular shit.

Eazy E: (before his untimely death) - I like Eazy E. Eazy E is a real ill
nigga. He's sharp as a tack ontop but rhymin even he knows. He took a
group from the hood and just put them on and two million. Bing! He know
how to do that shit. Same thing with Luke and all the rest of them niggas.
Man, I just think they take another turn. I can let you hear some Eazy E
shit on some old NWA shit and niggas would think Eazy was nice, you know
what I'm saying, so he know.

MC Breed: He ain't come out with nothing too wrong for me. I gotta hear some shit. I know once when I was in L.A. I saw Breed at Fattburger and that nigga just took me into the room and just got me smoked out. He had me listening to some ill beats and shit that he work on production too and I didn't know that. That's a plus for MC's. If you can make your own beats you got props because producing is better than being an artist.

Warren G: That's my man. nigga came to Brooklyn, he came to check me. He just came to hood and shit, pulled up in a little Crysler, jumped out and Warren G was on the ave. drinking Crazyhorse and shit, you know what I'm saying, cause I ain't gonna lie, I ain't going to his hood, staight up!

Wu-Tang Clan/Method Man: Wu-Tang is hot! I like their shit. I love that shit. I like their shit because they have a real I don't give a shit
attitude. We in this game to blow the fuck up! We don't give a fuck what
happens. All of us is gonna do our thing and we just gonna do it. And
they just did it. You can hear punches, you hear so much shit in that
album you know damn these guys is not giving a fuck. At the beginning of
CREAM, when that shit start!! Voila! Oh my God, this is some rushed shit
but I dig it.

The Roots: The Roots album. The Roots album is hot! On the strength, they rock the whole album for a whole hour. I was definetly in dibelief. I like the single, I really did but other people were like, Single was hot but I wasn't paying attention to the album at all."

 
 
 

slightly foul rating. mostly on point.

[birdman11]

maybe i'm whack, but i think kurupt is better than will smith

[Crockett]

maybe i'm whack, but i think kurupt is better than will smith

lol....

whos big to decide whos good and who aint. il give spice 1 a fuckin 10 and big a fuckin 2 lol at dude thinking hes the bos while he was sucking puffys dick

[Quiksta]

i'll try to scan that shit tonight or tomorrow if I can find it

 

[birdman11]

i'll try to scan that shit tonight or tomorrow if I can find it

 

props i cant wait

[Quiksta]

props i cant wait
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Can anyone give me a hand, I've scanned it but am unsure how to post the files now?

[birdman11]

go to insert image, its the icon right above the