The Best Gangsta Rappers
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1Tupac
Tupac is the G.O.A.T. even though he is not the best lyrically he's up there. He died at age 25 and made an incredible impact on African Americans in general. Not to mention he sold so many albums after his death and he is the definition of Rap music. R.I. P PAC
Tupac is a real gangster rapper. What is Lil Wayne doing here in the Top Tens? Wayne's songs are whiney and tiresome. Tupac's CDs kept coming after death and his songs are still admired today.
Tupac is the best gangster rapper, he was a real gangster, he is the worlds greatest gangster rapper and he will live on. If he was still alive lil wayne would be sweeping up the toilets in burger king. Tupac was shot dead in September the 13th 1996 at the age of 25. Tupac shakur lived by the gun and died by the gun. R.I. P = Rap Is Pac! R.I. P 2pac!
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2Eminem
Everything he says turns into a beast song... Every song he features in he surpasses the artist.. He came from a tough life... And he's songs are real and come from the heart especially when tragic events happen in his life he will use it to his advantage... Plus he can change styles easily he freestyles good but his 2010 stuff sucked but now that he's back with some of d12 his old self is coming out
Eminem is no gangster never claimed to be a gangster never lived a life of a gangster ans never even lived on the streets to be a gangster. Suburbans don't know what a gangster is so they think eminem is. Eminem might try to act like he was a gangster but he's not. He doesn't even deserve to be on this list or any other list but best white rapper. Whites need to stop trying to pick the white rapper for every list especially one he doesn't belong on. HE IS NOT A GANGSTER. Never even experienced it.
Eminem owns. He's the best white rapper. All songs become awesome and emotional. Also he raps about his life. Nothing like the fake gangster lil wayne who wears skinny jeans. Em rules the gangster kingdom
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3Eazy-E
The Realest In The History Of Rap
The realest and you can ask many people... COMPTON 4LIFE
The realest and you can ask many people... COMPTON 4LIFE
Since he is the only one on this list who may have been a gangster, he must be the greatest gangster rapper. Looking at some of the people in this list, they are confused between rapper and gangster rapper. Tell me one gangster song by Eminem, Gucci Mane or Kanye West.
When we talk about Gangsta Rap - We talk about Eazy-E.
No wonder people call him "The Father of Gangsta Rap".
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No wonder people call him "The Father of Gangsta Rap".
4Biggie Smalls
Biggie Smalls and Tupac should be on the top of this list brooklyn to the fullest. Notorious B. I. G had a real rap sheet not like these industry made rap sheets like lil wayne and T. I
They don't call him the Notorious B.I. G for nothing. The most gangster rapper in the world. No doubt!
Biggie was a swinger. Like a jazz player. His flow is without a doubt the best of all time. Lyrically, no one comes close to him. He should be number one. No disrespect to any rappers on this list, but BIG is the best to ever do it. And this coming from a big 2Pac fan too.
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5Ice Cube
What the f is this.. Everyone knows who owns gangster rap! Its not even a discussion... West coast king cube!
This dude is above easy e, HE WROTE EAZY E'S DAMN LYRICS! In terms of gangsta rapper I think he is above tupac, just the greatest gangsta rapper ever. Listen to death certificate and amerikas most wanted! You will understand. Shout out to scarface, he should be third. Then comes tupac and the rest of NWA.
No one got better gangster rap songs than ice cube!
Even though he isn't the best rapper he is by far the best gangsta rapper
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Even though he isn't the best rapper he is by far the best gangsta rapper
6Dr. Dre
Dr. Dre is the best rap and hip hop producer ever!
Dre was making the good rap when rap was good, and he's still making good music. Plus, his beats are featured on raps by most the rappers above.
Probably the most influential rap song writer and producer ever. The style created by the doctor was the touchstone of gangsta rap, setting the tone for generations to come. RESPECT TO DRE!
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7TheGame
This guy continues gangsta rap into modern timess
This dude is the face of modern west coast rap! Nobody knows hip hop better than him! he has studied rap as if it was a degree! He has improved tremendously since he first started. Hes got the perfect attitude and personality of a rapper: pure gangster! He is so versatile and I honestly think he is if not the best, at least one of the best rappers in the game atm (even though he is sorta under rated internationally)
Game goes HAM on every album. Always proving he is on top. Risked his career following what he believed in, going at 50 Cent. Stop Snitchin' Stop Lyin is the rawest mixtape of all time. And still made it without Dre. And lets not forget "Soldier" - "... I'm still breathin', I ain't dead, next time you try to kill me put one in my head! "
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8Snoop Dogg
Snoop Dogg is probably the most acclaimed rapper of today, he bases all of his songs on Gangster.
His entire style is based on Gangster. Thats just Snoop Dogg's style of rapping. and you gotta give it to him. He has really made a name for himself too.
His entire style is based on Gangster. Thats just Snoop Dogg's style of rapping. and you gotta give it to him. He has really made a name for himself too.
roblist
SNOOP DOGG FOR LIFE HE ROCK I LOVE HIM. He is a slow rapper but his rhymes are 1000 percent free style not written freestyle all his songs. He should be number 3.
Snoop dogg is the best 4 life man because he done somes songs that are got swear words on it but he is also known as the number 1
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950Cent
how do you get more gangster than 50 cent? he came from nothing to a near billionaire because his tough ass never gives up and does what needs to be done. he grew up with no mom or dad. his intelligence gave him the ability to run the crack business in the streets. he was hired by drug lords and pimps for protection because he "wasnt afraid to pull a pistol" he was shot 9 times and has been stabbed twice. he has been jumped countless times since his childhood. he came into the rap game challenging and speaking his mind about any rapper. and every rapper who has challenged him back has had their career ended. this man has been thru so much and still walks around with a smile on his face making hit records. he's a gangster
He is one of the top five gangster artists, Here's the real list for all you people who danoe : Tupac, Biggie, 50 Cent, The Game, Eminem - Top Five artists no real order but they are the five dons. Anyone else chatting about other gangster rap is chatting out they asscrack.
Real gangsta voice, gangsta tunes, gangsta lyrics... Total thug... Total gangsta... Fitty's the best gangstas out there.
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10Nas
He is lyrically talented he is the king of new york with out him the rap game. Wouldve not Been as good as it is today
No one is better than NAS! No other rapper has a flow of his quality with any beat in any song he has! His lyrics are the best no doubt and if you have got doubt then you anit listening to his song! Nas is the sickest stillmatic Illmatic two of the best rap albums of all time!
One of the greatest rappers alive, let along gangsta rap. He definitely should be number one on the list.
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11Big L
Such a good voice, such good flow, and such good lyrics. His instrumentals are good and his lyrics are dope and smart. Notthin much can match the graveyard by Big L for me
One of the Best lyrical rappers of all time.R.I.P. big L
Had the best punchlines ever and still rapped about the hood. Best ever. Period.
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12Jay-Z
13DMX
He's the best hardcore rapper of all time and he's definitely in the top 5 best gangsta rappers. He should also be in the top 10 best rappers of all tim
dmx is the most hardcore rapper the world will ever see dah mun shell down many men already men even eminem
He is a rapper of all black and strong dark... That can be listened up to Ethiopia which is found in east Africa!
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14Ice T
How the Hell youÂ're can forget THe Greatest Gangsta Rapper ever, He made this genre he started gangsta rap. 1982 where the most from the list where little kids, c mon the O G is nr 2 at least, because pac is nr 1
This man started it all back in the dayz... Anf also very important: you can actually hear what he is saying!
Ice T is the original gangsta. He started it in the early 80's I think that puts him in the top 3. His lyrics are pure gangsta
15Vinnie Paz
Boxcutter Pazzie! Jedi Mind, Army of the Pharoahs... This guy epitomizes hardcore rap...
Needs to be way higher than 15
Needs to be way higher than 15
Amazing artist
Amazing lyrics
Deep sound and meaning
Amazing lyrics
Deep sound and meaning
16Kanye West
17Game
He is my friend from high school we are in the gang
18MC Eiht
All you guys must be high! You put Mc Eiht below Kanye, Game, Eminem, jay-z, nas, dr dre?! Yo, we are talking about gangsta rappers (rappers who are gangsters), and MC Eiht is one of the realest MC's ever, not the best Mc ever... But he spits pure gangster though. Eazy-E, Ice Cube and Pac (and Jay-Z-although he is a white man style of gangster) are the only ones who have legitimacy to be above Eiht... Dre is no gangsta, everybody knows that.
Really? Kayne West in front of Eiht? Damm, if you believe that MC Eiht is less gangsta than Kayne West, then listen to Comptons Most Wanted's songs.
19MC Ren
He should be in the top 5 because he never got the attention like the rest in N.W. A excluding yella people don't appreciate his music.
Man Ren gotta be up there no dis to eazy but in the song two ruthless villian and maybe 2 hard muthas he took on main roll cause eazy couldn't rap to fast beats
20SPM
Realest Latino rapper, born a hustla, raised a G. The definition of a Street Poet. SPM was raised in South Park, SE Houston. Speaks of stories from being raised by mother who could barelly afford to buy herself clothes just so she could clothe and feed her children, to slanging Dope, gettin shot at, and working The Night shift. He is currently serving a 45year sentence after being convicted without evidence. Accused of touching a young girl, the daughter of a woman who blackmailed him asking for money, which is %100 unlikely since he could be bustin nuts w/ every ho in the club iif he wanted. SPM H-Town LEGEND, poet, Hillwood hustla, G and player
Eminem is my number 1 lyricist of all time but I been listening to spm before em even had his first 1st album out. But spm is a awesome lyricist, he's not quite eminem but if eminem is a 10 then spm is about a 7.5-8 easy. He gets down... Ok, enough about comparing them. Spm is more gangster rap, some funny stuff when they free style when they're high. I think be would beat most main stream rappers in a real free style.
He is the best rapper and the realist out there free spm
21Mack 10
22Royce da 5'9"
23Ja Rule
Should be in the top 10 because Ja is always keeping it real and he never changed over the years and most of his raps are about real life and street life, and he just doesn't spit random words like most modern day rappers, and his songs have meaning behind them, and he has his own label now even after the Inc. Broke up
24Method Man
Method man is underground and theey said no underground rapper wa sin a gang.
25Xzibit
Another West Coast rapper. Alot of Raps have Gangster meanings in it for Eg LAX by Xzibit is a gangster song and very good as well. Dresses like a gangster and represents the GOLDEN STATE. One of the biggest figures in the industry right now
roblist
not only he looks good he raps good too
evil4u
26Raekwon
27Trae Tha Truth
Idk how lil wayne got there or eminem... Trae songs go harder than any of anyones songs up there... Look him up, look up REAL TALK by trae
28Scarface
Great Gangsta Storyteller Great Lyrics Great Flow and Delivery
hiphop10
23rd are you kidding me? Scarface? Scarface invented gangsta rap. The Ghetto boys were the best.
This man is should be in the top 3 at the very least. Who in the hell put Eminem up there? Lil Wayne? That cat is far from a gangsta. Snoop? A gimmick! Tupac? the biggest fraud since pet rocks.
TRUTH4daMASSES
29Lil Boosie
This guy was in jail but still hi rap hards what is more gangste then that
2pac and boosie boo best
Lil boosie the realist out!
30Z-Ro
Realest rapper in the whole state of texas
31Twista
Living legend this guy will go down in history...
32Ol Dirty Bastard
He isn't the best rapper from the wu-tang clan but he is way to good for a fake blood like lil wayne to be ahead of him
ChrisHenry
the hardest one from Wu-Tang
Total bad ass method should be like 3rd then odb 4th
33Brotha Lynch Hung
34Bone Thugs-N-Harmony
35C-Murder
He's been in and out of prison and the streets he knows the meaning of being a Gangsta, he lived the life of one growing up from a B. G. to an O. G... Mad respect to Cory Miller...
C murder should be in the top 5. People that don't like his music can't relate to what he's says all these new raps care more about the money not the street. Most of these new rappers came from the streets as they say in their songs but you see them in hollywood eating on fine china. I hate these new rappers all they wanna rap about is how much money they got and what they drive they talk in their rap about they will shoot a person and rob and steal but you don't hear about there doing it the real gangster rappers are either dead or locked up or in jail for rapping about shooting somebody and did it and now serving life. In other words be about it don't rap about it and don't do it or rap about something you ain't done. But I'm a ride or die kind of person
36Pimp C
hip hop legend... helo... ya already forgot the pimp... ugk 4 life
Have you guys forgot about the pimp himself? True Trilla
37Freddie Gibbs
One of the realest out of Indiana. Truly one of the few real rappers to do it today
"Boxframe Cadillac" speaks for itself.. Not to mension "Curren$y" with Freddie Gibbs and Scottie Pippen.
Thuggin is that new age gangster rap its where its at just on that tip, gangta gibbs is bring back that gangster rap that real rap
38Soulja Slim
39Yukmouth
40B.G. Knocc Out
Just as gangster as Eazy-E
41T.I.
42Saman Wilson
He is the father of persian gangsta
Wilson is the best rapper in the world after eminem
43Kool G Rap
That fake blood lil wayne is about as gangsta as my 91 year old grandmother. Kool G Rap is the founder of gangster rap before the west coast did it. Kool G Rap should be 1 for that and he is better than anyone on this list as far as I can tell.
It know a little about Rap then you would know that this dude is the truth when it comes to gangsta Hip Hop...
Four words... "Live and Let Die". That whole album was a crime film put to wax.
44Bun B
Bun B spits some of the sickest rhymes ever. Listen to Bun B and Pimp C on their track Murder. Sicccckk
45Nate Dogg
rest in peace
Nate-"Smoke weed everyday! "
46Spice 1
Spice 1 needs to be up more on this list definitely
47Trick Daddy
48WC
Straight g from the westcoast; wc, ice cube and mack 10 together are with no doubt the best rap crew of all time
Wc is a mothaphukking g men
What the f*** Dub-C is one of the realest Gangstarrapper I ever seen. He even don't do bitch rap, no he do the real gangster rap.
49Cashis
50Kia Shine
51Coolio
52Soulja Boy
53Chief Keef
Chief keef best rapper alive right now he doing his thing ain't tripping.
Although He Young You can't Deny He's making Money and making Songs To Build his Legacy
Hands down Sosa should be at top alone with boosie
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54Norm Ender
55Andre Nickatina
56X-Raided
57Big Pun
Why is he so low down!? I'll admit he is not as well rounded as biggie, lyrical as big l or as thought provoking as the don tupac, but his flow is amazing and can make almost any two words rhyme! Should definitely be top ten, possibly top five.
58Dresta
59Tyler, the Creator
When it comes down to it tyler the creator lyrically is better then 85% to 95% of all the other popular rappers
60Plies
61Rated R
62Rage Loc
63Conejo
Best Chicano Rapper Out There!
Straight Out The City of Angels.
Wanted For "Murder", been on the run for 7 years!
Dead End Harppys 13..
64Lloyd Banks
Lloys Banks is one of G - Unit staff members, We can say he is a gangster, He is the second man after 50 cent, But he didn't make the chance to give a fuch rap ever by solo songs... But he still in my heart in songs with 50 cent... Cannot forget him as gangster rapper.
65Alley Boy
66Yelawolf
Catfish billy is the only reason I started listening to rap & now I love it... Will see him at the top of the list in the future. Yelawolf is the best
67Kordy Sand Nikka
This is a real G in Egypt
68Big Syke
if you love tupac then you have 2 like Big Syke cause he was pacs hommie!
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69Sevin
70Seagram
71Mr. Criminal
72J. Cole
73Yo Gotti
74Young Scooter
75C-Bo
76King Lil G
Reps the Blue I like that!
77Lil Kim
78Mr. Shadow
79Webbie
Trill ent Louisiana rapper who was raised in Sherwood he was a dope dealer at the age 14
80Blue-G
81F Killa
82Kingpin Skinny Pimp
83Mopreme
84E-40
85Apache
86Noizy OTR
87Lil Phat
88Hell Rell
89Uncle Murda
90Mac Miller
91Eldorado Red
92Jackie Chain
93Armstrong
94Yung Joc
95Crooked I
96Lil' Nation
Mc Ren found this man. Amazing gangsta rap flow. Featured on murder was the case soundtrack. One of deathrows solo artists.
97Redman
98Styles P
99Tim Dog
100Schoolboy Q
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