Fact #1: The 2000s was not the greatest era in hip-hop.
Fact #2: It wasn't even the second greatest era in hip-hop.
Fact #3: Despite facts #1 and #2, the dominant form of pop music in the 2000s was hip-hop.
While pop teenyboppers screamed their lungs out on TRL, hip-hop was sweeping through the globe with a force not seen since The Beatles. The biggest names in rap were making boundary-shattering music that rivaled the best pop music of the aughts.
Bling rap was hip-hop's answer to bubblegum pop. When bling rap ate itself alive, out came a new wave of eclectism from the other end. The emergence of new hip-hop poets from places like Atlanta and Houston proved the South had something to say.Â
No matter where you landed, talent awaited. In short, no legitimate house party was complete without a burned mix CD comprised of the rappers on this list.
Here are the 10 best MCs of the 2000s.
Fact #2: It wasn't even the second greatest era in hip-hop.
Fact #3: Despite facts #1 and #2, the dominant form of pop music in the 2000s was hip-hop.
While pop teenyboppers screamed their lungs out on TRL, hip-hop was sweeping through the globe with a force not seen since The Beatles. The biggest names in rap were making boundary-shattering music that rivaled the best pop music of the aughts.
Bling rap was hip-hop's answer to bubblegum pop. When bling rap ate itself alive, out came a new wave of eclectism from the other end. The emergence of new hip-hop poets from places like Atlanta and Houston proved the South had something to say.Â
No matter where you landed, talent awaited. In short, no legitimate house party was complete without a burned mix CD comprised of the rappers on this list.
Here are the 10 best MCs of the 2000s.