He and his partner Rock dropped rapid-fire, ragga-influenced flows over what were perhaps Da Beatminerz’ best efforts behind the boards as part of the duo’s debut album Nocturnal. Price first came to prominence as a member of the group Heltah Skeltah – he was one half of the insanely lyrical duo, then known as Ruck. He eventually became the feature member of Brooklyn collective Boot Camp Clik, a talented group of gritty street MC’s. There is so much talent from Brooklyn that this was bound to happen, but that’s also what made putting together this list – and this entire five-part article – so rewarding.įew rappers possessed the raw technique and ability to craft complex rhyme schemes like Brownsville, Brooklyn’s Sean Price.
So if the lack of anyone on here frustrates you, my apologies – take my word for it, it was very tough to leave certain rappers off of this list. Trust me, I wanted to make this a top 30, but to stay in theme with the rest of the articles’ formats, I had to trim this down to a total of ten rappers. Since there are so many talented MC’s from Brooklyn, there is a good chance that you will read this list and find that one of your favorites didn’t make the cut. Much like parts one and three of “The Top Five Rappers by NYC Borough”, touching on Queens and the Bronx respectively, I made an “honorable mention” top five, as I simply could not leave so many great rappers off of this list.
In fact, the incredible amount of great MC’s to come out of Brooklyn made it nearly agonizing for me to narrow them down to a top five. The borough was and is represented proudly by some of the most successful and influential names in all of Hip Hop. By the time Hip Hop reached its “golden years” in the late 1980s and through the middle 1990s, a staggeringly high concentration of talented rappers came out representing Brooklyn.īrooklyn is responsible for the highest concentration of influential rappers from the 1990s, although you’ll find a couple of entries from this list that came out in the 1980s. However, by the mid-1980s, more and more talented rappers were emerging in droves out other boroughs. There is no doubt Hip Hop was born and raised in the Bronx, and that the most influential pioneers in the first five years or so of Hip Hop originated from that borough. This is the final installment in the series, as we will end our journey in the borough that has probably the highest concentration of talented rappers in all of New York City and the entire world – Brooklyn. To learn more about how and for what purposes Amazon uses personal information (such as Amazon Store order history), please visit our Privacy Notice.Welcome to part five of five of “The Top Five Rappers by NYC Borough”, my five-part article that outlines the top MC’s in each borough of New York City. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie Preferences, as described in the Cookie Notice. Click ‘Customise Cookies’ to decline these cookies, make more detailed choices, or learn more. Third parties use cookies for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalised ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. This includes using first- and third-party cookies, which store or access standard device information such as a unique identifier. If you agree, we’ll also use cookies to complement your shopping experience across the Amazon stores as described in our Cookie Notice. We also use these cookies to understand how customers use our services (for example, by measuring site visits) so we can make improvements. We use cookies and similar tools that are necessary to enable you to make purchases, to enhance your shopping experiences and to provide our services, as detailed in our Cookie Notice.
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