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

[RawAce]

Common

he never compromised his subject matter.

he never changed his style to fit the flavor of the season.

 

[Lurker6]

and kool keith

 

[kuskklassic]

Beanie Sigel

DMX

Tupac

Scarface

UGK

Ghostface

Talib Kweli

Black Thought

Public Enemy

Shyne

Nas (You Owe Me and Nastradamus were close bringing him down)

 

[High Revolutionary]

Common

he never compromised his subject matter.

he never changed his style to fit the flavor of the season.

Common's in my top five but the above isn't true:

 

[Nah Son]

lol @ Nas not selling out. Get the fuck outta here

 

[T. Sanford]

Pimp C is th trillest artist of all time

 

[bigev240]

He had chances to leave DuckDown to go to a bigger label but stayed.

 

[RawAce]

Common

he never compromised his subject matter.

he never changed his style to fit the flavor of the season.

Common's in my top five but the above isn't true:

UMC was nowhere near the flavor of the season upon it's release

people can say UMC is some Euro white folks music,

i look at as Common's attempt at a house/80's electronic hip hop/bambaata album

people forget that hip hop's roots have traces of house and electro music

i would say that house and electro are 2/3 of what early hip hop party goers were listening too,

the other 1/3 being disco

 

[P. Town]

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

 

[soulfulcat]

I rock with Ghostface... But didn't that nigga put out a all R&B album!?

 

[NeighborhoodNomad.]

Scarface

Pac

Bone

DMX

Killer Mike

Ice Cube

 

[NeighborhoodNomad.]

Oh yeah, and Lauryn Hill

 

[J. Will]

Facemob

Bun B

Killer Mike

Krit

Spitta

 

[louis rich]

AZ

 

[drb3n]

Immortal Technique

 

[Lurker6]

gza

 

[Amotekun]

Public Enemy sold out when they dropped Professor Griff for exposin dem Jews for their fuckery.

 

[Mr.Forte]

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

Tupac was a reality rapper not a gangsta rapper.He was set up to be killed and shot five times by some niggas he knew and then was sentenced to prison for a crime he didn't commit. Who the fuck wouldn't come back ten times harder and angrier after some shit like that happened to them (only a pussy). Tupac was no studio gangsta

 

[dbrazil412]

 

[StillFaggyAF]

Common was making the house music (he's from Chicago) before it got popular