^LLoyd banks is dope though, and Tony Yayo aint too bad either.

Negative.

^^Damn straight....

Lyricists.....

Aesop Rock
El-P
Sage Francis
Sole
Slug

Albums
Aesop Rock - Float and Labor Days
Atmosphere - Lucy Ford
Brother Ali - Shadows on the Sun
Sole - Selling Live Water
Sage Francis - Personal Journals

Actually, those are just the ones that came into my head.....I really listen to all of my albums constantly.....

50 Cent - Dead would be top of my list me thinks = )

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^ i cant believe that guy put 50 cent as the fifth best lyricist ever... if the list was the top 10,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000th lyricist maybe he'd be somewhere towards the bottom...

Rakim
Biggy
The Realist (Yes im my favorite)

Not a big fan of g-unit, 50, none of'em, fuck 'em.
I did buy 50s 1st album though... I do like patiently waiting, eehh, but only Ems verse n it. I did like that song on 'get rch or die tryn'
were he disses JaRule, I cant even find tha damn thing 2 remember the name of that song... oh well. But that 1 dude put him @ #5... He obviously hasn't heard alot of hip-hop.

whoeva put 50 fifth

get tha fuck off tha board

he's garbage.. along with his lyrics

top lyracists
1. Eminem
2. 2pac
3. Twista
4. Cannabis
5. Outkast

Top 5 to bump tp
1. Do or Die Vol2
2. D12 Devils night
3. Nelly Nellyville
4. Jay-Z Blueprint
5. 112 Vol3

no order
1.killah priest
2. rass kass
3.rakim
4.nas
5.taleb kweli

to bump now:

cannibal ox
copywrite
chino xl
apathy
killah priest

no order

eminem
nas
redman
method man
big


marshall mathers lp-eminem
tupac-greatest hits
malpratice-redman
2001-dr.dre
cheers-obe trice

B.I.G. then Nas

i like eminem above all the others. cuz of his sick multies. the whole mom bit is getting a bit old though. jay z also puts out some dope songs too. pne of my favorite of his is MOJO or sumthin like that... (the one that goes ive got my mojo back baby oh behave).

^ yeah, but multies arent the only thing u judge lyricism on... like eminem does prolly have some of the best of rap right now, and he is a great lyricist... but nas for example is poetic and has a larger vocabulary... and he also does string some good multies, although not as good as em... but all together, nas ends up being a better lyricist... same with canibus, he cant string multies as good as eminem but his vocab and advanced style of writing makes him the better lyricist... but i'd still put em somewhere near the top right now

of course, rakim is the best of all time :P