I respect:
Krs One for being Real, forever.
Rakim for being A who he is
Kanye West from when I heard his verse on Get By Remix, he has not failed to live up to my expectations from what I heard from College Dropout
Slug- for the real lyrics he puts out, something always Jaw Dropping
Run DMC for Pushing Hip HOp to where it is Now, no matter how good or bad it is, its still here.
Nas for selling out and then coming back against everybody's expectations back in 2001
Royce da 5'9 for being dope
Canibus for being dope too
Aesop Rock for being different..but yet still amazingly dope too

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Bubba Sparxxx - for being the 2nd respected commercial white rapper, but not playing off Eminem's image... developed his own style

Mr. Lif - good political image, love his flow

Ras Kass - Soul On Ice is one of the best hip-hop albums ever...

GZA - awesome wordplay, classic album Liquid Swords

Yes..Gza genius..
Mos Def and Talib Kweli should are also very well respected.
Also
Common Sense for being one of my main inspirations

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Damn. . Forgot some people. .

Eminem - For being the first white rap artist to make it big and not let ignorant fucks on the internet get to him with their senseless bashing when he's making money and they're just talking through keyboards. . and i'm not a Stan either. . where the fuck did that shit come from ?

Bubba Sparxxx - Basically what Wogzta said. . building his own image. . having a pretty dope CD lyrically with Deliverance. . he impressed me.

Wu-Tang Clan - Every member. . for being so damn dope lyrically and not changing their style just to sell albums. . they stayed dope and sold albums through lyrics. . much props for that.

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The best rappers eva have to be lil rob 2-pac jin eminem ezy e cassidy

i cant bealeave you just said lil rob is one of the best rapeprs ever.

and this thread isnt best rappers its rapepr you respect the most.

lil rob one of the best ever im better then lil rob. all the other chicano rappers like him are wack to. all there ever rap about is how gangster they are and their lowriders. thats gay.

1. pac, got upmost respect fo dat man....no need to say nothin else...
2. scarface, dude put the south on the map...............
3. oukast/dungeon family, also put the south on the map and always bout dey own style
4. nas, nigga been kept it real even though i don't like him too much, fye ass lyrics
5. master p, even though he whack now, dat nigga went from rags to riches.......also put tha south on the map

o hell yeah i forgot my man bubba...damn went to middle school wit dat crazy ass white boy at west lagrange..................wtf was i thankin? he got a tight ass style and he always kept it county and he neva been scared to keep it real wit that redneck shit....my mane hol it dine..........

^ why the hell do people on this site pretend they know commercial rappers?

ARRGGGHHH

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.

2pac
BIG
JayZ
Talib Kweli
Common
Mos def

Pac
Biggie
Jay Z
Mos Def
Talib Kweli

Biggie
Pac
Nas
Jay-Z
KRS-One
Mos Def
Talib Kweli
Kanye West
Rakim
Common
Wu-Tang(ghostface, raekwon, method man mostly out of that crew)

there's more but those are tha ones i respect tha most

Ja Rule MurDa Inc Staff-For Makin IlL Records Not makin Beef Stop Em And Thats IT

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