MTV News' "Top 10 Hottest MCs in the Game"

Maybe I'm biased because I've never liked The Game, but does anyone really feel like he should be at #3? Even for a list based primarily on sales and mainstream exposure, his last album really didn't do well enough to land him that spot.

Going strictly on MC'ing

10. Wrong
9. Wrong
8. Wrong
7. Sure
6. Wrong
5. Wrong
4. Maybe
3. Wrong
2. Too low.
1. Too high.

I must not be paying enough attention to Andre 3000???

those MTV News dudes are way too much on Andre's jock for just a handful of remix verses, some better than others. a few weeks ago they did a 'report card' for all his recent guest appearances, and the LOWEST GRADE any of them got was A-

Worst top 10 ever. Seriously ever.

1. T.I.
2. E-40
3. Bun B
4. Ghostface
5. Lil Wayne
6. Jay-Z
7. Andre 3000
8. Malice
9. Pusha T
10. Young Dro

FIXED

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i think that speaks for contemporary rap more than MTV News to be honest.

i would have added bun b, clipse and nas and taken out 50, jones and the game. anyone who's read da drought 3 thread knows what i think about wayne being on the top of this list.

individual list from the mtv news people:http://www.mtv.com/bands/h/hip_hop_week/2007/hottest/index13.jhtml"> http://www.mtv.com/bands/h/hip_hop_week/2007/hottest/index13.jhtml

there are some wild ass placements there (rick ross at #3 really?) but after watching some of the videos, these people have a pretty decent working knowledge of rap.

I like the FIXED version!!!

gotta remember that the criteria for this list was the last 6-12 months and was based heavily on stuff like guest appearances and collaborations, so it's gonna be weighted towards guys who were on every remix (i.e. the only reason fucking Jim Jones is on the list at all). what has E-40 even been on in the past year besides like that Lil Scrappy single and probably a few hyphy songs that never got heard nationally?

also if you're gonna herb yourself with The Clipse on the list, at least don't give them 2 individual spots.

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LOL at message board person calling me a "herb." For a list I blasted out in two seconds.

Fine

8. Clipse
9. Young Dro
10. I don't know, Fat Joe or Joell Ortiz or something

It's not a bad list for what it is. The Game doesn't belong, not does Jim Jones, but otherwise it's pretty okay.

er "^" to "billstevejim" not whiney.

also, off-topic, but whiney thnx for that silver daggers stream. really awesome

1. Lil Wayne
2. Clipse
3. T.I.
4. Kanye
5. Bun B
6. Ghostface
7. Andre 3000
8. Nas
9. Young Dro
10. Young Jeezy

or something like that... jay misses my list on the virtue of having to hear his wack-ass verse on "umbrella" like 864 times this summer.

also the second link above works (the one after the ">")

christ that list is abysmal.

poor hip hop.

The funny thing about a list like this is that what they're really measuring is who has the most juice in the industry w/r/t radio play and sales, more than who can rhyme competently or made a solid album. But if they didn't limit it to rappers half the list would be singers and guys who are primarily producers (Swizz Beatz, T-Pain, Polow Da Don, R. Kelly, etc.) who have more influence on what's on the radio than almost every rapper out.

(xpost Whiney I'm not hating, Clipse are OK, but giving 2 pretty similiar rappers in the same group 20% of the list borders on Fennessey-level worship)

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Thanks so much for stopping by, JS! Lindstom and Prins Thomas are up to bat this week!

I'm mostly opposed to putting Jeezy on the list because he'd be the first one to tell you he's not an MC!

x-AiB, haha, I can see that.

I was just sticking with the "one rapper per spot" trope at the risk of becoming the victim of "YOU THINK PUSHA AND MALICE SOUND THE SAME, OMG!" net-attacks.

I meant to give Pusha T the edge for the "Duncecappin and kazooing" line alone.

jay-z??? please

good call on Dro though.

i agree w/ alex re: the criteria here. one thing i will say from watching the discussions, is that most of the people seemed to confuse "putting out an album" with "putting out a good album." like they all agreed that Hip-Hop is Dead/T.I vs. T.I.P./Doctor's Advocate are great albums, rather than albums that just came out and may be good.

Jay-Z doesnt deserve to be on there but he'd have to drop 2 more albums even worse than Kingdom Come for him to lose an instant spot on a list like this. Really, to not have him in the top 5 is a huge indication of how far he's fallen lately.

Same w/ 50, his low placement (2 spots above Jones!) is kind of a hilarious slap in the face.

as i was watching this on sunday afternoon i found myself marveling, even while drunk, that these guys were actually arguing who should come out ahead when it came to t.i. and the game.

i was kind of half listening and someone was going on about how "he's released blah blah blah mixtapes this year and he's killed them all" and i though "oh, okay, wayne." and then...the game. the game??

The Game does kill it, but just not in any way that's intriguing. As opposed to Kanye who's totally intriguing but rarely kills it.

Seriously, Consequence does better Kanye than Kanye these days.

I know!! Weirdest part is that it's not like a bunch of the voters are from the west coast or any of them even put him higher than #4 or #5 on their individual lists. It's just like...really?

xpost I might agree, but...Consequence's album :(

how is jim jones even on there? mike jones>>>>jim jones.

Well, Jim Jones was the lucky no-talent of '06, but Mike Jones was the lucky no-talent of '05, so JJ is at least more current.

hey, at least mike put out one great album!

I don't understand how Jim Jones beat out Santana. If they had to go for someone from Dipset Santana is the obvious one... even Cam'Rom would be more believable than Jim Jones (that whole "CURRRTISSSSSSS" thing sort of rose his stock a bit...)

mike also has one great single right now

mr jones? or that 6-4z one?

Mike Jones is never coming out. He waited too long and his window closed.

Jimmy is really just a beneficiary of a lack of anyone else from Dipset doing anything notable in the past year. Does anyone thing his next album is going to have a single as big as his last one? Even that one didn't sell as much as the ones that had no hits! Juelz has done like 2 guest appearances outside of Diplomats records, but if he dropped again it'd probably be fairly big. Cam has got to be sick or addicted to something and we'll probably find out why he's been so quiet in a year or two when he dies or retires from rap or something.

mike jones' current single sucks (if its the same one i saw the video for). paul walls album prob sucks too, if that single is anything to go by. wouldnt be surprised if slim thugs new material is mediocre too.

Mike has TWO great singles out right now.

i was talking about 'my 6-4' which is great

wouldnt be surprised if slim thugs new material is mediocre too.

-- titchyschneiderMk2, Monday, July 30, 2007 5:53 PM (5 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

this is also RONG, the boss hogg album is great

I personally like "My 6 4" and Paul Wall's single, but whatever cultural capital all those guys had outside Houston circa "Still Tippin'" is completely spent up now, they'll all be lucky if they ever drop major label albums again, which is the kind of shit this list is trying to measure. Only Cham and and maybe Bun B could realistically place on this list.

Has anyone heard Tum Tum?

I like him OK but man that "Caprice Muzik" song is a dud.

all i know from driving back and forth to jersey twice this weekend is that pop radio has anointed sean kingston the hottest mc in the game. oh and rap stations in delaware must have just gotten "pop lock and drop it"

common andre 3000 and the game make ab no sense. the rest i can kinda understand.

ah the threada you find when ilm script goes to shit

hilarious fat kid sean kingston seconded

Common's debateable but when you add up token 'conscious' rapper + last album was best-selling of his career + about to drop new one = instant list real estate. Andre's a weird case because Outkast's last album was their first bomb and his latest solo album is a cartoon soundtrack with no rapping, so he's really being judged on like 5 guest verses, but as I said before, the MTV News folks are really stuck on those 5 songs.

Andre 3000 totally deserves to be on here when he wants to rap, but the last thing I heard him on was on the "Walk It Out" remix and that was almost a year ago, right? (nb: keeping up with remixes and mixtapes is a pain in the ass, so I may well have missed a bunch)

milo: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I0JOGyFItDE

He's been on a bunch of stuff since then - Rich Boy remix, Lloyd remix, Devin The Dude album, UGK single. "Walk It Out" was just the first of all those. (xpost)

he should be punished for leading ugk in to lame-o halfassed weirdness andreland

hmm...i like "make it rain" i guess...

I also kinda like "Make it Rain"

it was really exciting in the last def jam game. that and we fly high were the best to fight to.

Well differences of opinion are not allowed. This is the part where I call for your ban and go apeshit like a toddler!

ban humansuit

have I become the Cartman of ILM? Where is Geir Hongo to deflect attention when you need him? Help me Geir help me!

stfu dude

the game is just like if a really boring mixtape rapper got a bunch of expensive beats, which im cool with

I forgot Kanye on my list. He should be there solely because of that Amish / farm music video.

oh come to think of it, i like that one game track with the just blaze beat but mostly for the beat

i liked the doctor's advocate because its a dre tribute that sounds like The Chronic 2006. Game even sounds kind of generic as a rapper like Dre. The songs where he starts crying are weak for this reason ... when he gets all explicit about it and it loses the concept

let's ride = dope bass sounds, dope list of g-funk impala-ridin bottle-poppin cliches, good song

not to flip anybodys wig but theres a whole gang of 17 yr olds who see the documentary like the new illmatic

u_u

i feel an alex in nyc throwing-my-budweiser-can fit coming on

id rather newjacks geek out over a dude who raps 10 minute verses and beefs with yukmouth than 'party like a rockstar' or whatever

"thirstin howl the iii, this time you've gone too far"

that new trae mixtape has him rapping over party like a rock star, then some rip-off track, then SMELLS LIKE TEEN SPIRIT. the nirvana one is amazing

i mean for real we live in a world where rap radio spins gwen stefani & jay-z amy winehouse remixes and yall are bitching about THE GAME??!

I see you have issues that need psychiatric attention.

But The Game in the top ten? I don't think so. 'The Game' is moving past The Game, which is to be expected. Dude had a lot of help before.

dude MIA was yr number 2

give up, man - even big hoos wants to ban you

thats str8-up kill yourself time

kudos

i mean fat joe is a terrible rapper, though...
remy ma>>>>fa joe

-- Jordan Sargent, Wednesday, August 1, 2007 3:43 PM (54 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

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Yeah I'm not really sure about M.I.A. myself regarding the first album, but I really like the new stuff. At any rate, it's much more interesting than anything having to do with 'The Game' right now. Would you put The Game in your top 5 to 10?

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the worst fat joe line of all time >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> the best line by m.i.a. (and asians)

"gwen stefani & jay-z amy winehouse remixes"

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also, if you think fat joe is a better rapper than remy ma— ESPECIALLY the past 6-12 months fat joe— go ahead and ban yourself.

CLAP BACK

^ BAN JORDAN. And Asians.

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On a scale of 1-10, Jim Jones ranks as #10 in MTV's "Hottest MCs in the Game" roundtable. Shawty is a ten?

Too high. Jim Jones is, at best, an 11.
81%
Too low. Hotter than a nine.
19%

Total votes: 113

wow...

power 92 here did a not so scientific call-in survey about whether dipset or cash money were the better crew. cash money won by one vote

? i'm not even a big cash money guy but this dipset cult is just bizarre....it's like 1 halfway decent rapper and a bunch of nondescript NYC mixtape types

08 lolist

1. Kanye
2. Jay-Z
3. Lil Wayne
4. Rick Ross
5. Snoop Dogg
6. 50 Cent
7. Lupe Fiasco
8. Young Jeezy
9. Andre 3000
10. T.I.

No Red Hot Entertainment?

this thread is hilarious

smh @ ross-- i'll ride for trilla but no

was really hoping they'd sneak soulja boy in at #10

ross deserves to be on there way more than jay-z

Kanye 3000

the game no longer in the game

dudes with gay porn names talkin about lil wayne being "svelte" on a fucking mixtape track are schooling me on the genius of bun b.

-- dylannn, Wednesday, August 1, 2007 3:41 AM (Wednesday, August 1, 2007 3:41 AM) Bookmark Link

dudes with gay porn names talkin about lil wayne being "svelte" on a fucking mixtape track are schooling me on the genius of bun b.

― dylannn, Wednesday, August 1, 2007 10:41 AM (2 years ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

dudes with gay porn names talkin about lil wayne being "svelte" on a fucking mixtape track are schooling me on the genius of bun b.

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give up, man - even big hoos wants to ban you

― and what, Wednesday, August 1, 2007 12:36 PM (3 years ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

thats str8-up kill yourself time

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