you're not the best part 2...

MTV News Hottest Mcs Roundtable

MTV sent the hip hop world and therefore the fickle, fan-turn-critic blogosphere into a frenzy a few days ago when they announced their top 10 hottest mc's in the game. A MTV panel of "experts" painstakingly churned out what they believed to be a credible list after hours of worthless debates and arguments. Since the release of said list, bloggers, fans, and just about anyone with 10 fingers has chimed in with endless commentary and rebuttals, citing the list as invalid and even blasphemous. Since creating such a list requires more thought than I would like to devote to the matter, I was hesitant to throw my two cents out into the blogosphere. But after reading Joe Budden's comments over at XXL, I realized I could just pick up where he left off. From all the posts that I have read concerning MTV's list, there seems to be one glaring fact that hip hop fans are seriously struggling with. And of course, it involves "hot boy" Lil' Wayne. To my recollection, this debate over Lil' Wayne is unprecedented. Never in hip hop history has their been a debate about an emcee's credibility or overall talent that has raged on the way that this Lil' Wayne bit has. I've already put my thoughts on Wayne out there, but I would like to very briefly relive one notion from the aforementioned post. To quote JB "you are not the best!" . And to continue along with what Budden was saying, no one under the age of 30 can rightfully claim to be the "greatest rapper alive". Anyone under 30 does not have the experience and crediblity to truly carry the weight behind such a statement. I'm all for rappers having confidence and being competitive but some of this has gone way too far. It's damn near disrespectful to make such a comment when legends like Jay, Nas, Black Thought, Common, etc are still in the game. There is a stable of very talented rappers out there (Lil Wayne and Joe Budden included) but none of them can claim to be the greatest. And besides, these types of list are practically useless. Two months from now that list can be completely different. Such lists serve only one purpose; giving people with too much time on their hands bloggers (me) something to write about. Seriously, think about it, I can make a case that Lil Boosie is the hottest in the game. He has a hit record, a mixtape and whatever else those other rappers that are in the top 10 have. How come he didn't make the list? Not that I like Boosie, the point I'm making is that being the hottest in the game is far too relative and can easily be something different based on where you live, if you listen to the radio, etc. Basically the point of this post was to show that these type of lists are completely useless and any rapper that measures their success by any type of so called panel of experts, should quit rapping.