I've been following rap forever...

Not religiously.

But on and off, I'm very finicky about who I listen to.

I'm a rattle off my biggest rap influences...
Basically the only shit I've really listened to alot...

I want the real niggas, the really gifted up in here...
To drop their opinion on the talent of my influences..
And to drop the names of some really talented MC's who's CDs I should be checkin out.

So far...

Ice T (the first rapper I ever heard and my most respected of the gangsta genre)

NWA (back in the day, they were the shit)

Eazy E (caught his debut "Eazy Duz It" and was knocked over, the song, Boyz in the Hood, well, shit, I loved that whole album!)

Public Enemy (honestly, only heard a few songs here and there, but what I heard was pretty amazing)

DMX (found him in 1999, and thought "What's my Name", "Up in Here", etc was bad-ass...this guy resurrected rap for me)

Eminem (hasn't everyone been influenced at least a little by him)

Drop your opinions on these cats and direct me to some more talent, please.

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