ROAT (Realest of All Time): Post the Greatest Hip Hop Artists who Refused to Sell Out

[c.b.b.]

If the title didn't say "greatest", I'd throw C-Murder in the list

M.O.P.

AZ (even tho he had a few commercial attempts on Aziatic and 9 Lives)

Ras Kass

Scarface (been said 1000 times already)

Soulja Slim (RIP)

Lauryn Hill (took serious guts for her to stand up to industry demands and make an album like "Unplugged")

B.G. (kept his music raw and left the commercial sell out Cash Money)

Ice T

De La Soul

Public Enemy (might be #1 in terms of not seeling out)

Ice Cube (even though he did a few club songs, he stayed true to his roots on his albums)

Jeru Da Damaja

Pimp C (Bun's one of my favs, but he went a lil too commercial on his solos)

David Banner (returned to his true roots and always sent a message on albums even when he did songs like "Play")

Little Brother

Jurrasic 5

...............and last, but not least Nikki Minaj lol

 

[thefabmd2dc]

Kendrick Lammar

 

[konceptjones]

paris hands down. nigga was so real he got banned from mtv for life!!! not just a single video or banned and then unbanned, im talking about banned for life. nigga gave no fucks and kept spitting the realest shit ever

damn, this was gonna be one of my picks.

Paris is that dude.

When Tommy Boy refused to release "Sleeping With The Enemy", Paris said "Fuck You", went out and bought an entire manufacturing and duplication operation, set up Scarface Records as a real entity, and manufactured and distributed the album - ON HIS OWN. No rapper since then has ever done that like he did. Paris didn't have to answer to anyone else for that release, though he did sign a P&D with Priority for subsequent releases on his label.

 

[konceptjones]

Also:

EPMD

Poor Righteous Teachers

Da Bush Babees

paris hands down. nigga was so real he got banned from mtv for life!!! not just a single video or banned and then unbanned, im talking about banned for life. nigga gave no fucks and kept spitting the realest shit ever

Lol.....Paris left that life to become a stock market dude

No bruh, Paris is still very active in hip hop.

He's released more music since dropping that for PE PLUS, he had a part in the movie "End of Watch".

 

[Turfaholic]

Every rapper from the bay minus Kreayshawn & ya boy

 

[konceptjones]

So none of ya'll woke up one morning and Tupac was all of a sudden a West Coast gangster rapper?? Lol ok

yeah, that shit was about as crazy as Hammer going from this:

to this:

Pac flipped it for sure.

 

[thecomebacklegend]

makaveli

 

[wAXed_poetic]

Bumpy Knuckles

 

[plocc]

So none of ya'll woke up one morning and Tupac was all of a sudden a West Coast gangster rapper?? Lol ok

right, right. I dont think he sold out though. His biggest mistake was letting suge get him outta jail.