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Best English Rapper Ever!!!

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  • #122
    danbrosnan
    Registered Users Posts: 900 ✭✭✭danbrosnan


    Mike Skinner has gone away with it again!!!


  • #123
    Boom_Bap
    Moderators, Music Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 25,730 Mod ✭✭✭✭Boom_Bap


    I really dont know who my favorite English rapper is. There are a few that I like/d such as Blade, Example, Mike Skinner, Da Brotherhood, Skinnyman and old skool Black Twang before he went bling.

    I guess the one that I listen to most nowadays is Speech Debelle who is not in the poll.


  • #124
    danbrosnan
    Registered Users Posts: 900 ✭✭✭danbrosnan


    Boom_Bap wrote: »
    I really dont know who my favorite English rapper is. There are a few that I like/d such as Blade, Example, Mike Skinner, Da Brotherhood, Skinnyman and old skool Black Twang before he went bling.

    I guess the one that I listen to most nowadays is Speech Debelle who is not in the poll.

    Havent listened to Speech Debelle at all.. Is he worth a listen???


  • #125
    Boom_Bap
    Moderators, Music Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 25,730 Mod ✭✭✭✭Boom_Bap


    danbrosnan wrote: »
    Havent listened to Speech Debelle at all.. Is he worth a listen???

    Yes, and it's a she!

    She won the mecury music prize for her first album, and her second album is pretty good too.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JfDxv0qQokI


  • #126
    Camac Hibs
    Registered Users Posts: 504 ✭✭✭Camac Hibs


    Theres too many but Skinnyman and The Brotherhood are up there (both of them). Elementalz is still my top english album

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XIkAOBovaPE


    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4riSx7_vb2Y


    But if I had to pick one emcee it would be Braintax

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9VS36zW2Zgs


    Dizzee is phenomenal on Boy in The Corner. If he had continued along that road he would be topping it.


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  • #127
    danbrosnan
    Registered Users Posts: 900 ✭✭✭danbrosnan


    I agree dizzie is one serious mc!!!!!


  • #128
    danbrosnan
    Registered Users Posts: 900 ✭✭✭danbrosnan


    Boom_Bap wrote: »
    Yes, and it's a she!

    She won the mecury music prize for her first album, and her second album is pretty good too

    Heard her on one of the music channels the last night, she quite a talent alright, lets see what the world does to her over the next couple of years!!!!

    By the way is Boom Bap the expert??? and who did you vote for??:D


  • #129
    Boom_Bap
    Moderators, Music Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 25,730 Mod ✭✭✭✭Boom_Bap


    danbrosnan wrote: »
    By the way is Boom Bap the expert???

    No, I am not. But very good friends with him since we were young lads.


  • #130
    conor.hogan.2
    Registered Users Posts: 5,246 ✭✭✭conor.hogan.2


    Boom_Bap:D wrote: »
    No, I am not. But very good friends with him since were young lads.

    :D


  • #131
    Jason Todd
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,326 ✭✭✭Jason Todd


    Has to be Akala for me.

    Top 3 imo:

    1. Akala
    2. Wiley
    3. Scroobius Pip

    Could listen to those 3 all day

    Chiggidy check this out, crazy sh!t


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  • #132
    danbrosnan
    Registered Users Posts: 900 ✭✭✭danbrosnan


    Jason Todd wrote: »
    Has to be Akala for me.

    Top 3 imo:

    1. Akala
    2. Wiley
    3. Scroobius Pip

    Could listen to those 3 all day

    Chiggidy check this out, crazy sh!t

    Very well said to be honest it was a close second with me with akala... Akala and Kano my favorite artists... and i am a huge huge akala fan after listening to his fire in the booth i feel guilty cause i should have given him my number 1, i mean nobody can touch him really... he has done it himself in every way possible out of every person to have ever lived in the world that i would like to meet it would have to be akala... a true genius...


  • #133
    CraigSmith
    Registered Users Posts: 60 ✭✭CraigSmith


    It's between Skinner and example (old stuff) really, two quality rappers in there rap phase.

    Can't believe pro green actually got votes :rolleyes:


  • #134
    FishBowel
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 363 ✭✭FishBowel


    No vote for Sketpa? Doin' it again is a good album.


  • #135
    danbrosnan
    Registered Users Posts: 900 ✭✭✭danbrosnan


    Ya i agree, can't understand how skepta got no vote...


  • #136
    FishBowel
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 363 ✭✭FishBowel


    He has a song called Throw it in the bin which probably explains what happened to his CD :D


  • #137
    danbrosnan
    Registered Users Posts: 900 ✭✭✭danbrosnan


    CraigSmith wrote: »
    It's between Skinner and example (old stuff) really, two quality rappers in there rap phase.

    Can't believe pro green actually got votes :rolleyes:

    Dont agree listened to all his stuff, while on holiday last week and even though he has a lot of ****, some really good tracks... He has gone completely commercial but you gotta even you want to make money, can't blame him for that tbh...


  • #138
    Shapey Fiend
    Registered Users Posts: 1,994 ✭✭✭Shapey Fiend


    I think you can blame him for it if the tunes are awful. I love pop rap when it's executed properly but himself and Professor Green have put out a string of unimaginative commercial pap in the last two years.


  • #139
    DrumSteve
    Registered Users Posts: 10,799 ✭✭✭✭DrumSteve


    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=odbfKeIdh-s


    Blade ****in nails it on this one.


  • #140
    tossy
    Registered Users Posts: 9,587 ✭✭✭tossy


    DrumSteve wrote: »
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=


    Blade ****in nails it on this one.

    That's more like it,proper UK rap


  • #141
    VisualStats
    Registered Users Posts: 7 ✭VisualStats


    Dizzie Rascal is the best for me.


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  • #142
    Rud
    Registered Users Posts: 937 ✭✭✭Rud


    Dappy ha ha ha ha ha good one.I always liked Wiley and TY but Mike Skinner is the best to me


  • #143
    Bobby Baccala
    Registered Users Posts: 7,341 ✭✭✭Bobby Baccala


    Dappy is a cretin.


  • #144
    Talib Fiasco
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,428 ✭✭✭Talib Fiasco


    Roots Manuva is clearly the best MC from the UK if you're not including Slick Rick and DOOM.

    Witness the Fitness!!!!


  • #145
    pragmatic1
    Registered Users Posts: 5,573 ✭✭✭pragmatic1


    TheComeUp wrote: »
    Roots Manuva is clearly the best MC from the UK if you're not including Slick Rick and DOOM.

    Witness the Fitness!!!!
    Yeah roots manuva is deadly. Wiley has flow for days though and he's a top producer.


  • #146
    danbrosnan
    Registered Users Posts: 900 ✭✭✭danbrosnan


    Thanks for all the votes lads...


    The streets won again even with all there flaws...


    Just goes to show the best isn't always the most popular...


  • #147
    Role
    Registered Users Posts: 3 ✭Role


    Why the **** wasn't delvin even mentioned on that poll. Not saying he would of won but he should of been recognised. Delvin fire in the booth sums my point up


  • #148
    Shapey Fiend
    Registered Users Posts: 1,994 ✭✭✭Shapey Fiend


    Because saying he's the best UK rapper of the last 10 years would be hard to argue.

    I haven't listened to a lot of him lately but I always got the impression he was good on grime beats but incapable of flowing or finding nice patterns on hip hop ones (which all his mainstream stuff has been). Maybe he's improved since I don't know.


  • #149
    HighClass
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,675 ✭✭✭HighClass


    Jehst is the right answer. Hands down the best UK rapper of all time. Skinnyman is up there as well but he only put out one project, albeit that one project was the classic Council Estate Of Mind, he doesn't have enough material to be the best.

    Jehst
    Skinny
    Chester P
    Roots Manuva
    Lee Scott
    Klashnekoff
    Verb T
    Trellion
    Melanin 9

    They're some of best of the past 10 years for me. The you have people like Dizzee, Wiley, Kano, Skepta etc but grime and UK rap are two separate things all together imo.


  • #150
    Muirshin Durkin
    Registered Users Posts: 727 ✭✭✭Muirshin Durkin


    Cyrus Malachi deserves a shout.


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  • #151
    beano345
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,105 ✭✭✭beano345


    Lewis Parker

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ssmXOR-RQoI


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