the most manufactured carefully pieced together rapper of all time is ?

[juan travolta]

eminem has emotional hooks. a life story of rags to riches.

 

[IceBergTaylor]

Rick Ross and Nicki Minaj especially that chick. She was set up to be like a female Jay-Z but decided to become Nicki Gaga

 

[georgia boi]

I don't know. I had a hard time with this one. IMO, Hip Hop is one of the genres where it's difficult to manufacture an artist. For example, in other genres, the "artist" is pretty much an avatar. All they have to do is perform the music. They have writers writing for them, producers to produce their music, a team that develops their image, little input on direction etc. Take Rihanna for example. She's basically an avatar for Ester Dean who's written a lot of Rihanna's music, StarGate who produces most of her music, the team that styles her, and whoever else has input on her image and style.

In Hip Hop, artists have to grind by putting out mixtapes, doing features, writing their own music, sometimes produce their own music before and after making it big. Few if any rappers are signed based on physical appearance and their voices.

 

[loch121]

Tupac is

People actually think duke was a thug,when truthfully he was far from one

What is a thug??

The Hate You Gave Me.

Pac was just a real dude and been through way more than most ppl go through their whole lives.Was Pac far from a Thug when he shot those cops in ATL?

I know the Outlawz and Pac wasn't a superhero, but he was a wild dude and kept guns and stayed in some shit.he wasn't no hoe ass nigga.He was out here and he died doing some thug shit.

Pac was far from manufactured because he made his image not some suit in a office.He made the blueprint for controversy in hip hop but totally naturally

 

[loch121]

Drake was manufactured by the majors.They aligned him w/ the biggest names in rap off the top and everybody ate.Who has Eminem,Jay, and Wayne features? Even though he's signed to Wayne now he was put in position.

This doesn't mean dude doesn't make good music though.

 

[loch121]

I'm an Em fan, but Em is high on this list too

 

[Zigefresh]

lil wayne i don't think people understand how much hes affected 93 babies and up.

93 babies and up? I don't get it.

you mean babies born 93 and up?

 

[c.b.b.]

I agree with whoever said Flo Rida. Somebody molded the hell out of him, probably taught him how to flow on beat, an voila we have a pop rapper. Same with Plies (he originally didn't want to rap so I can't blame him)

Nelly to a lesser extent, but I think his persona on the mic was more genuine.

As much as I don't care for Minaj, I wouldn't say she was manufactured. Al least not to an extent. I think the crazy rhyming and gimmicks is her own doing mostly and naturally her.

Bow Wow but he doesn't count, I guess.

Ja Rule (10 years ago). Loon (with the fake ladies man image). Mase seemed molded too. Onyx with the fake gangsta image.

I don't care for 50 Cent, but he was a thug rapper since he got in the game. I wouldn't say he was manufactured.

Oh how could I forget, Guerilla Black (lol). I never believed his story that he naturally rhymed like that. I bet someone told him that they'd sign him if he was willing to jock Biggie

 

[c.b.b.]

BoB

Non threatening

Musically ambiguous

Force fed pop singles with pop stars

Blatant rip off of Andre 3000 without the skillset

B.o.B.'s music was that way before he was signed though.

He did have forced pop singles, but even Lupe was forced too also.

I don't think B.o.B. is manufactured, dude has almost the same style he had since he dropped his underground mixtapes

 

[H-Rap 180]

BoB

Non threatening

Musically ambiguous

Force fed pop singles with pop stars

Blatant rip off of Andre 3000 without the skillset

B.o.B.'s music was that way before he was signed though.

He did have forced pop singles, but even Lupe was forced too also.

I don't think B.o.B. is manufactured, dude has almost the same style he had since he dropped his underground mixtapes

Wrong.

B.O.B never collabed with white POP artists heavy like hes doing on his first two albums...listen to his mix-tapes and look at the features and production.

Julia Greenwald (Atlantic records) turned him into the honorary POP-Negro in HipHop with a discography that looks like this:

B.O.B feat Haley Williams

B.O.B feat Skylar Gray

B.O.B feat Taylor Swift

B.O.B feat Lorriana Mae

B.O.B feat iggy Azelia coming soon.

his first two albums B.O.B has more songs with white PoP chicks then the combined solo-discographies of JayZ, Nas, Ross, Jeezy, LL Cool J, Biggie, Rakim, Ice Cube, Tupac, Rakim, Krs-One, & Big Daddy Kane COMBINED....COMBINED!!!!

Atlantic records created this POP-machine clone-Black-snake-moan-Frankenstein-experiment to be the ambassador for the industry's white-wash campaign were white-women like the ones I listed and ones like B.O.B's labelmate Iggy Azelia are subtly being promoted and infused into a culture that had pretty much shunned them up until 2011.

 

[juan travolta]

lil wayne i don't think people understand how much hes affected 93 babies and up.

93 babies and up? I don't get it.

you mean babies born 93 and up?

yeah.

 

[IceBergTaylor]

Lol at me getting a wack. I've gotten some admirers lately