"hip hop started in the West
Ice Cube bailing through the East, without a vest"

Rakim agrees—Cube over Kendrick

Suburbans fav

Pac, Cube, Kendrick, Snoop, Dre

HM: Eazy

Anybody that ain’t a nerd would’ve told you this

Do i even have to say it lol

Somebody post a couple of Ice Cube’s best verses. I feel like he’s always solid but I’ve never heard anything from him that absolutely blew me away.

troy ave stan tearing his acl to keep up this kendrick nerd gimmick as if he can name an ice cube song that isnt today was a good day

Kendrick performed at the Super Bowl, got 27 Grammys, 21x Plat albums sold, 70x plat singles... a Pulitzer prize... 70 billion streams on Spotify alone.... grossed nearly 600milllion in tour revenue....

like come on bruh even if you hate this nigga what are we talking about?

ya kendrick wins i think

plus he's not a fukn boomer lol

Pac, no way around it. He is the most important rapper of all time tbh

Yes we know he ain’t truly from the west coast but it’s what he represented

Still pac

Andre Nickatina

Pac is from Harlem

It’s Blu. With respect to Pac and Cube.

Tyler’s name hasn’t came up once

Kendrick would say Pac, but I don’t have to.

love tyler but he been jestermaxxing too hard to be considered the face of the coast

If we’re having a conversation about Hip Hop and you bring up White People Awards and how much somebody is selling you lose me TBH.

I think it might be Kendrick considering he has the most great albums out of all WC artist but bringing up sales is wack

Old heads might say Ice T tbh.

My personal top 3 (not including Pac):

Kendrick
Cube
Nipsey

i grew up on Snoop but he doesn’t have any significant work outside of 3 albums, and most of it is mid. Also the depth in these three cant be beat besides maybe Ice T and DOC

nigga his great albums is a given that just adds to it. like it's basically in arguable. I agree about the white people awards part though. You just arguing just to arguing though, especially with him in your top 3.

Dr. Dre obviously is the most important thing to ever happen to West Coast music.

You're right that I came off contradictory, since Kendrick's in my top 3 but I rate the music first.

My point wasn't to argue for the sake of it, just that leading with stats and industry trophies (even Pulitzer, which is legit) misses what makes hip hop great. Because if we're going by awards, streams, or plaques, then Eminem, Drake or Jay Z would be the 'best' by that logic and I'm not making that argument.

Rap is built on how much an artist means to the culture, not how much they appeal to the masses.

The culture wasn't built on Billboard numbers.