Who are the best rappers from the UK?

[Muhannad]

Apart from a few artists, UK hip hop always sucked. It has always lacked authenticity, always one step behind the US. Only Euro hip hop that could compete with US hip hop was French hip hop and that's because radio stations overthere were obligated to play a % of homegrown sh*t. These Antillian, African and Arab French innercity youth also live in the same, if not worse, conditions as some of these kids in the projects of a city in the US.

There's a reason hardly any UK hip hop artist blew after all these years. This joint was dope back in the day. Who still remembers this joint?


Estelle before most of you knew her...


This caught on after garage/ 2 step fell off because it was authentic. Doper than most hip hop produced in London FOH. Can't believe this dropped a decade ago. I'm getting old lol...

 

[ojos_negros]

http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=N2CYqyNBSgE

You was in the house rave cuttin shapes

I was in my house mate cuttin base.

No sleep couple days it was fkin rage

This is all reall footage no cut aways..

 

[SnuffDaddy]

Listening to brittish slang & rap u wouldnt think its actually english. My guess also is that UK slang seems to derive from some african & possibily caribean type lineage.

 

[ojos_negros]

Listening to brittish slang & rap u wouldnt think its actually english. My guess also is that UK slang seems to derive from some african & possibily caribean type lineage.

That's because as an island we have a lot of docks where different cultures would come in to work on the dockyards. Its why uk is one of the most cosmpolitan countries in the world.

 

[marc123]

Who are the best rappers from the UK?

uh. gimme a minute...

 

[konceptjones]

Slick Rick

Derek B

Cookie Crew

You forgot Monie Love

 

[konceptjones]

Chip is prolly the only UK cat aside from Roots Manuva that I can listen to.


^^^ The GOAT shit from Roots Manuva



You can't have a convo about UK Hip Hop without mentioning this dude

 

[The_Man]

Dappy lol


Im from here and im not really messing with much uk rap to be honest, i like afew guys like dizzee, sway, lowkey is a good rapper but his shit got boring fast, theres alot of talent they just need the right record company behind them.

 

[GunTown]

Margs from East London. Hackney he affiliated with my hood though A Team!! South Killy, Stonebizzy (North West) to Hackney blue gang

@guntown u from sb?

Nah South Kilburn sides but i'm Bridge sometimes got some mates there, wat endz u from?

 

[GunTown]

Why are some people mentioning Kano, Wiley etc? they do not do Rap they do Grime

The rappers i posted videos of make Rap music and are the 1's buzzin

 

[GunTown]

Blade Brown

Giggs

Fem felon

Youngs tef

Kyza

Teflon is that dude

Trillin is an underated album, those bars he done over that old crooklyn dodgers beat from the 90s smashed it. You listen to blade or fel?

I like Fel he nice not so much into Blade though but i'm feeling most the rappers from Brixton or Narm

 

[DNB1]

Why are some people mentioning Kano, Wiley etc? they do not do Rap they do Grime

The rappers i posted videos of make Rap music and are the 1's buzzin

Take em' off a grime beat and slap em on a hiphop beat and it's all the same thing mama...

 

[GunTown]

Why are some people mentioning Kano, Wiley etc? they do not do Rap they do Grime

The rappers i posted videos of make Rap music and are the 1's buzzin

Take em' off a grime beat and slap em on a hiphop beat and it's all the same thing mama...

I don't think they sound as good as people like Teflon, DVS, Adz, Margs, Joe Black etc wen they try to use hip hop beats

 

[GunTown]

Cara from North London

She so dope she really is better than many male rappers

 

[Muhannad]

Kano, Wiley and the whole Roll Deep made doper music than most rappers from UK anyway. Like I said, there's a reason no 'real' rapper from the UK has blown (if we exclude Slick Rick). UK rap lacks authenticity for the most part. UK doesn't have the ingredients to produce quality hip hop for the most part. Even heads from there aren't gonna support a weak version of US hip hop.

Like I said, when it comes to hip hop France is the only country that can compete with the US qualitywise.

This came out in '05 but this was doper than most rap from there.


Doper than most of these UK hip hop videos posted in this thread.


Whassup with Akala? He was one of the better rappers from there. A halfbreed trying to spit conscious sh*t b ut he was aiight still. Speaking of Akala, you could argue his sis Ms. Dynamyte blew and made waves internationally but she wasn't consistent and fell off hard.

 

[GunTown]

Different strokes for different folk i can't get into that Roll Deep, Kano, Akala ish

Also Americans are always gonna be insecure of U.K. rappers who rap about the struggle, inner city life, the streets because in America europe is portrayed as safe that's why u think it's not autheantic however if u spent a day in places like Brixton, Harlesden, Peckham, Kilburn, Ladbroke Grove etc places these rappers come from u will see they like american rappers are just products of their enviroment

 

[mohamed]

Idk if he constitutes as rap, maybe more hip hop relation but Sampha is blowing up in the states. Sbtrkt and sampha are goat live

 

[Muhannad]

Yeah different strokes.

You don't f*ck with Kano though? I can understand why you don't like grime as a genre but Kano got mic presence, lyrics, subject matter, hooks etc. Haven't been messing with his recent stuff but I liked that P & Q's when it dropped. Back then that sound was fresh and new. Kano repped where he was from.

I'm from the Caribbean and been to both London, Birmingham and NY and while you had some slums in the British cities it ain't like in the caribbean, NY and even France. Alot of these youths in UK are trying to emulate what they see brothers from the US doing. They glorify ignorance and black on black crime instead of working on their future.

 

[CashmoneyDux]

Are you retarded? Kano & Ghetts DEFINITELY make rap music.

 

[Ranxx]

Margs from East London. Hackney he affiliated with my hood though A Team!! South Killy, Stonebizzy (North West) to Hackney blue gang

@guntown u from sb?

Nah South Kilburn sides but i'm Bridge sometimes got some mates there, wat endz u from?

Wood Green but i link with certain man

I'm never round sk but i know they got links with sb from way back