so they can justify them having heartbeats.

I respect

Rass Kass for not kissing nobody's ass, he could've easily just said "fuck it i'll have Dre produce every song and put Eminem on my first single" but he didn't

Royce the 5'9 for refusing to be Eminem's puppet like D12 and doing tha shit on his own

Jay-Z for the reasons already posted

Rakim for staying the god

Ghostface for refusing to downplay his creativity for mainstream success and for wearing that big ass bracelet

Bubba Sparxxx for reasons already stated

Master P just for being a dope ass hustler (lost half of that when he started biting off Cash Money)

Kweli and Mos Def-4 spitting knowledge

Canibus-for staying tha same and not changing to get attention, and not overhyping his beef wit Eminem for mainstream attention (he could've easily sent a mixtape to MTV and gotten on the news)

and ya'll might laugh but Ja Rule-he stood up and actually came out when everybody was shitting on em (including me) and dropped an album (even though it sucked) took some balls 2 do that.And to keep rhyming while getting shit thrown at him at the Source awards.