Who's Your Mt Rushmore For The 1980s?

[playmaker88]

LL

Kane

Krs

ChuckD

 

[King of GA]

Rakim

Kool Moe Dee

KRS One

LL Cool J

Next up would be Slick Rick, Kane, Melle Mel, Chuck D, Erick Sermon, Too Short, Ice Cube

 

[qawshun]

Run

LL

KRS

Kane

 

[Nechesh358]

Krs1

Rakim

Chuck d

Big daddy kane

 

[mc317]

Freddy and Jason running home with they mouth bleeding

 

[x the unknown]

eazy e , slick rick , kane , g rap

 

[mc317]

U love them damn shrooms u love garcia vega

 

[Nechesh358]

Idk how anyone could make this list without rakim...

 

[Intelligent_Hoodlum]

Bout a year ago KRS woulda been on there for me but i cant rock wit em no more after his statements defending Bambatta

Right now i got

LL

Ra

Kane

G Rap

 

[water ur seeds]

It depends, historically, I would say:

Caz, Melle, Run and LL as to me they 'created' modern hip hop and made it commercially 'out there'...

Personal favourites though skill wise and who took it to the next level I would go with: G Rap, Rakim, BDK and LL...

The 80's seems very East Coast bias, I think the 90s and onwards would have alot more West Coast options...

 

[5 Grand]

I'm going with Melle Mel, Kool Moe Dee, Grandmaster Caz and LL Cool J

I'm changing my vote to Melle Mel, Kool Moe Dee, Grandmaster Caz and Kurtis Blow

 

[power_wisdom]

Rakim, KRS 1, BDK, Slick Rick.

 

[Kwan Dai]

I'm going with Melle Mel, Kool Moe Dee, Grandmaster Caz and LL Cool J

I'm changing my vote to Melle Mel, Kool Moe Dee, Grandmaster Caz and Kurtis Blow

Damn this is tough. Your list is accurate but damn we need Ice T, Spoonie Gee, and Jalil from whodini.

 

[Nechesh358]

I'm going with Melle Mel, Kool Moe Dee, Grandmaster Caz and LL Cool J

I'm changing my vote to Melle Mel, Kool Moe Dee, Grandmaster Caz and Kurtis Blow

Why kool moe dee tho?

 

[5 Grand]

I'm going with Melle Mel, Kool Moe Dee, Grandmaster Caz and LL Cool J

I'm changing my vote to Melle Mel, Kool Moe Dee, Grandmaster Caz and Kurtis Blow

Why kool moe dee tho?

I grew up in Massachusetts, so I'm not from The Bronx. I don't remember when they used to do it in the parks.

My earliest memories of Hip Hop was rap that came on the radio, like The Sugarhill Gang, Kurtis Blow, The Treacherous 3, The Sequence, Spoonie G, Frankie Smith, Jimmy Spicer and Grandmaster Flash and the Furious 5. Those groups came out in between 1979-1982

The second wave of groups were Run DMC, Whodini, The Fat Boys, UTFO, The Boogie Boys, Dougie Fresh and Slick Rick. These groups were hot from 84-87.

Then around 1987 there was a third wave of MCs that put the second wave out of business, I'm talking about Rakim, KRS One, Chuck D, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane, etc.

I REALLY, REALLY, REALLY got into Hip Hop around 1986. Thats when I started taping the late night radio shows. I'd find out which college stations had a rap show and then I'd sit in front of my boom box and tape the show.

Anyway, when its all said and done, the first generation of MCs deserve to be memorialized on MT Rushmore. If I could pick 2 more MCs I'd pick Spoonie G and Busy B.

But yeah, Kool Moe Dee was a beast on the mic and out of everybody he had a nice long lasting career that carried on after he broke up with the Treacherous Three and he made 4 solo albums.

Truthfully he's not better than LL Cool J (imo) but he was first. He was literally one of the first MCs. There's tapes of him rapping in 1978, before Rappers Delight was released.

 

[MECCA1000]

This is impossible for me. One part of me wants to say Melle Mel, Kool Moe Dee and Grandmaster Caz. But truthfully the cats in the last half of the 80s were better rappers and put out better studio recordings.

Say word!