Favourite British MC?

[theDZA]

i'm interested to know peoples views on this, especially anyone from outside the UK, i'll start by saying that my favourite is Kano, i think that hw is a very talented lyricist and has a good voice and flow to match, i reckon he is better then dizzee, who is the most commercially successful out of British MCs.

So who would you say and why?

[ALCATRAZ]

i ain't up on british rappers

[Slide]

I ain't up on british rappers too.

[joe245]

Akala.

[drippie k]

i dunno their individual names but foreign beggars is pretty fucking solid group

[ol dirty abbot]

Kano is nice, the whole Roll Deep crew is pretty good with Wiley the standout for me.

Lethal Bizzle is nice too this my favourite song from him video shit but song is dope.

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Heres he and Wiley

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This Tinchy Stryder he dope too and this my favourite Grime song

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[Shower Through The Peephole]

Slick Rick.

[p-rok73]

Is Roots Manuva British? If so I'll go with him.

[Senator C. Palantine]

Yes he is.

and i agree.

[theDZA]

Is Roots Manuva British? If so I'll go with him.

nice choice, he is one of my favourites but Kano is the best in my opinion

[spiggity_ace]

mf doom

[GZAjector]

i think these dudes is brit

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vid is nice, golden axe was my shit

[oldie]

There's already a few UKHH threads mate but anyway

Dizzie, Kano, Tinchy, Bizzle, Wiley - all commercial BS to me. dont rate any of them

I reckon i'd have to go with MC Life of Phi-Life Cypher - Phi is a dope group.


Life FREESTYLE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZrC_PP6WCmM&feature=PlayList&p=1A60BFFC99F66A41&playnext=1&playnext_from=PL&index=22


Plan-B is nice too IMO - solid album!

honourable mentions worth a peep:

Wordsmith

Task Force

Jehst

Asaviour

Skinnyman's "freestyle's" only, his album sucks IMO

(and obviously MF Doom, Slick Rick, Roots Manuva)

a UK MC called Rising Sun was on the remix of Nas' Theifs Theme, that was pretty nice but i cant no info on dude

[irish ins]

slick rick - but seriously Lewis Parkers stuff is good

[GhettoGnom]

^^He's a better producer than rapper though..

Anyways, Slick Rick, Possessed from Rhyme Asylum & Durrty Goodz are my 3 favs.

[Tage]

Slick Rick & MF DOOM.

[-The A to the Z-]

That fella Roots Manuva makes some lovely music.

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Brilliant how he doesn't try in the least to sound American.

[52 Pick-up]

Rick and Doom are the only ones I've heard of.

[oldie]

bump

[UncontrolledSubstans]

Dont sleep on US3!

http://www.zshare.net/audio/62754346ef026715/

[Rame]

Dizzee Rascal.

He does very good live shows.

[oldie]

Dont sleep on US3!

http://www.zshare.net/audio/62754346ef026715/

d/l now, thnx!

[shogun_assassin]

doom, slick rick, jehst, dizzee rascal, ghetto etc etc.

[DRUNKENDRAGON]

I'm feeling this shit:

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[Ghost In The 'Lac]

All the grime rappers are pretty dope IMO, Wiley, Tinchy, Dizzee. Not so much Kano. I like all the underground shit.

I dont like all that fake us backpack hip hop shit like Jehst or whatever. The worst rapper is Plan B, fucking wack.

Ive been into Roots Manuva since he came out. Roots is the most wu tangy MC in a country full of Wu Tang wannabees. Him and Slick Rick probably the 2 best ever.

I dont really count DOOM he left England when he was like 4, buts hes born in London so he counts lol.

[Ghost In The 'Lac]

There's already a few UKHH threads mate but anyway

Dizzie, Kano, Tinchy, Bizzle, Wiley - all commercial BS to me. dont rate any of them


Plan-B is nice too IMO - solid album!


thats fucking ridiculous and stupid. Those guys are as opposite to commerical as its possible to get, striahgt off the pirate radio, you dont get anymore underground than those guys. Some had some crossover successs, but to say they are commercial is the most retarded thing you can say.

You are ignorant of the whole real uk hip hop scene if the other guys you mentioned are what you prefer. The real hip hop is in the grime, not the US wannnabees.

The fact you like PLan B says it all really lol, the indie emo white dude with a fucking acoustic guitar doing the gayest fucking non hip hop ever.

[check two]

Maxim can get down when he wants to.

[battle?]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AYCZgOZgZ1c

[theDZA]

All the grime rappers are pretty dope IMO, Wiley, Tinchy, Dizzee. Not so much Kano. I like all the underground shit.

I dont like all that fake us backpack hip hop shit like Jehst or whatever. The worst rapper is Plan B, fucking wack.

Ive been into Roots Manuva since he came out. Roots is the most wu tangy MC in a country full of Wu Tang wannabees. Him and Slick Rick probably the 2 best ever.

I dont really count DOOM he left England when he was like 4, buts hes born in London so he counts lol.


cept for London Town, Kano's the most underground outta the ones you said...tinchy released that shitty pop song - no. 1, and dizzee released that shitty pop song dance wiv me - i lost alot of respect for him after that song, but you never know he got an album dropping soon (or so i heard) so hopefully it will be more similar to Boy In Da Croner which is a fucking brilliant album

and yeah, we'll say DOOM counts just so our list is of British MCs is a little bit better lol

[oldie]

thats fucking ridiculous and stupid. Those guys are as opposite to commerical as its possible to get, striahgt off the pirate radio, you dont get anymore underground than those guys. Some had some crossover successs, but to say they are commercial is the most retarded thing you can say.

You are ignorant of the whole real uk hip hop scene if the other guys you mentioned are what you prefer. The real hip hop is in the grime, not the US wannnabees.

The fact you like PLan B says it all really lol, the indie emo white dude with a fucking acoustic guitar doing the gayest fucking non hip hop ever.

opinions my friend.

[Kingkazim]

MF-doom, kind of
Ghetto
akala
kalashnekoff

and fuck kano

[theDZA]

MF-doom, kind of
Ghetto
akala
kalashnekoff

and fuck kano

ghetto is ill as fuck
so is demon actually, his verse on gangsta toys was the shit

whats ur problem with kano?

[TAURO]

I haven't been checking for any uk hip hop in a while now so my choices are based on past achievements rather than current projects.

Genesis Elijah
Kalashnekoff
Kyza
Skinnyman
Jehst
Wordsmith

[Tzaosirus]

Yo people - Sharpest UK emcee - is.... MADHAT McGORE

Check out - www.madhatmcgore.com (http://www.madhatmcgore.com)

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[oldie]

^^ actually not bad. real decent flow but i can hardly understand cos of the accent lol

[Tzaosirus]

Yup, thick Scottish accent there... haha

[oldie]

I dont know who put up the track by a group called 'US3' but theyve put me onto em, offa hearin their track 'Can I Get It ft Scene' i've bought their latest album 'Stop.Think.Run'....nice album, i recomend!

[Mercury]

Who are US3?

[Dr Sleepwalker]

Jehst and Joe Kovacs

[My Brother's Keeper]

not sure if everyone thinks of him from the UK or not since most of his music is real east coast style but hands down Slick Rick... nothing new for him in a long time but a classic MC none the less

[food for thought]

^watup sun?


Slick Rick and Roots Manuva


im sure im forgetting someone thoug

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[Tage]

^watup sun?


Slick Rick and Roots Manuva


im sure im forgetting someone thoug


one of the dudes in your sig. DOOM.

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I dont know who put up the track by a group called 'US3' but theyve put me onto em, offa hearin their track 'Can I Get It ft Scene' i've bought their latest album 'Stop.Think.Run'....nice album, i recomend!

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[oldie]

^^^yeah thats a nice track! i intend to buy more of their albums

[KLIION JENSEN]

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[Sinistarr]

Mystro's my favourite British MC... Braintax comes in at 2nd

[DRUNKENARTS]

klashnekoff,rodney p,skinnyman,twisman,million dan to name a few

[Steve Urkel]

Slick Rick

[Tony Kipriani]

OBBA SUPA!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q_Maje_TEdQ

[narc]

LOL
skinnyman,




dropping some choons here.
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[Sun Quan Youngest Wu]

Emcees are only from America.







kidding.






My favorite is M.I.A. Hot in both aspects of the word

[UNCLE RUCKUS]

Roots Manuva but I remember liking alot of rappers from the Task Force series' compilations, not by name though

[narc]

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HEAD GONE. flykick lift your clat

[TAURO]

Right now I got to say Kyza

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[oldie]

I still say Plan-B is nice on the mic

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qv5-m9Yy9rA

[KLIION JENSEN]

^ yeah he is....that first album was dope as fuck....plus he did kind of a good job acting in Adulthood too.....

[Shower Through The Peephole]

Capleton

[highdro]

scorzayzee was nice , shame he quit.

stig was a funny fucker in the battles .

[SID]

Wiley is the godfather, after him comes....

Mr Key
Klashnekoff
Beezy
Treason
Mc Vapour

[Mic Tyson]

Slick Rick

this

[Mercury]

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(IMO Slick Rick doesn't count because he has an American citizenship).

[oldie]

^ yeah he is....that first album was dope as fuck....plus he did kind of a good job acting in Adulthood too.....


finally someone that agree's with me!

most people bash him but i think his album is a strong album, a breath of fresh air IMO - its different and i like it!

[GhettoGnom]

Right now:
#1 - Possessed from Rhyme Asylum. Rhyme Asylum as a whole is fucking sick.
#2 - Durrty Goodz

(Of all time Slick Rick takes it though)

edit-
oh shit, I already posted in this thread.. haha

[11th Chamber]

M9


http://www.myspace.com/m9ine

[whers]

Wiley is the godfather

My thoughts exactly.

[Steve Urkel]

Slick Rick, listening to him takes me back

[BoogieManMusic]

roots manuva - witness the fitness

[narc]

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[oldie]

Yo any one know anything of a new Plan-B album?!?!

[Dark Swords]

Sinister Stricken !

[narc]

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[TAURO]

I am shocked by how little love is being show towards Kyza.

[narc]

Black The Ripper
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[narc]

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Plan B is a Task Force Wannabe

[Mercury]

All of Contact Play

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[theheavens]

Slick Rick

what he said

[FrenchShin]

slick rick, mf doom and roots manuva.

klashnekoff fell off recently.

[Hydro2k10]

These 2 from Phi-Life Cypher. Life and Si-Phili

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Special mentions to:- Jesht, Chester P and Kyza.

When it comes to grime, then Ghetto is the one.

[Tommy]

2003 Dizzee Rascal

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[Hydro2k10]

Phi-Life Cypher piss on any Dizzie shit.

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Freestyling:-

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[SID]

Make a cup of Tea and peep my sig.

[Mai Wang Tu Phat]

Lady Sovereign is the only U.K. rap artist I've heard.

She was alright.

[Ginnsey]

lol shes on big brother here in the uk at the moment........ prolly cus she got a deal with def jam (the only uk artist to do so) is the reason why shes the only one uve heard. i think shes crap

[SID]

lady sov is swag. shes got the kind of frame that you would bang in mid air though.

[Mai Wang Tu Phat]

Damn, I didn't know Doom was from the U.K, he's my favorite Britsh artist then.

[SID]

Check out Black the Ripper, Foreign Beggars, Klashnekoff and Mr Key

[KLIION JENSEN]

Lady Sovereign is the only U.K. rap artist I've heard.

She was alright.

well expand your horizons & check out some more from these shores....

lol shes on big brother here in the uk at the moment........ prolly cus she got a deal with def jam (the only uk artist to do so) is the reason why shes the only one uve heard. i think shes crap

i'm sure theres a few on Def Jam UK - if it still exists

lady sov is swag. shes got the kind of frame that you would bang in mid air though.

yeah, she's shite, but i'd fuck the dogshit out of her....

[Hydro2k10]

Lady Sovereign is the only U.K. rap artist I've heard.


Shes fucking wack man.

Check out Phi-Life Cypher, thats some real UK Hip Hop, right there. None of this watered down grime shit.

[Hydro2k10]

Check out Black the Ripper, Foreign Beggars, Klashnekoff and Mr Key

Forgot about Foreign Beggars, they got some sick shit out.

Whats Klashnekoff doing these days? Not heard much from him for a while.

[SID]

Yeah foreign beggars are dope, check out the choon "on a winters day"

klash is quite low key nowadays i think hes still recording, maybe something big is in the works who knows.....

[Boofy3]

terra firma in my eyes is the illest group of uk mcs no dought. if any of you have seen any wu tang gigs in the uk, some of terra firma have opened up for them a few times.

the main three members klashnekoff, kyza, and skriblah.

but unfortunatly kyza left back in 07 i think it was.

for me they were the illest coz individually they were all sick on thier own, and when they came together the raw chemistry was thier.

i noticed the chemistry they had, no other group had. it was like they were a super group without trying.

some other groups came close but didnt quite do it for me like poisonous poets, out da ville, foreign beggars and so on.

terra firma tracks to look out for:

war
angels besides me
kyza- lights out
kyza - fight club
klashnekoff - parrowdice
skriblah - dred ting

to be honest just listen to the foundation mix cd and youll see what i mean

[misawa98]

Hard choice for me.

I would probably say Jehst but then again on another day I would say Chester P or Scorzayzee.

Ramson Badbones as well

Not really feeling any of those Grime dudes. Lyrically those guys just dont cut it.

Fliptrix is a new MC I heard recently. That dude can spit.

Kyza is dope. Life MC is dope (his freestyles of the top cant be touched).

[SID]

One of the greatest choons ever

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[JehovAllah]

thats naaaaaasty^^^^^^^^6

[JehovAllah]

that beat is bananas yoooooo i cant rly understand most of whut he sayin but shit is dope as fuck tho

[SID]

I'm glad you recognize the bangage skampoe.

[WooHa]

Hijackers were a solid group

[Djaminha]

Ty is real nice.

[KLIION JENSEN]

Hijackers were a solid group

i heard of Hijack but not Highjackers, but yeah, Hijack were fucking hard, they were part of Ice T's Rhyme Syndicate, then about 5-6 years ago they changed their name and made a cheesy garage track, and stayed at number one for fucking ages....
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[dad]

yo , ima have to say , Jehst , the whole Rhyme Asylum , Stig of The Dump , and Kashmere .

[kingaaronz]

Durrty Goodz hands down best UK MC.

[JakobR]

I don't know that many british rappers but Lowkey is one of the best emcees in the world right now. Rhymes, flow, vivid imagery, story telling, everything.

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His 'Soundtrack to the struggle' album is going to be a classic.

[Djaminha]

Ty

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[catx420x]

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[misawa98]

Jehst. Really looking forward to his new album
Scorzayzee - Crazy talented
Rhyme Aslyum - Those dudes spit crazy dope bars. 2 great albums and Possessed on Poison Penmanship spits one of the dopest verses I have ever heard!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5cvjZEQ2nP4

[Decka]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EhrYQrLBiTQ

i watch that about once a week its absolute flames!

i mostly listen to phi life cypher, dizzee, kano, wiley, rhyme asylum and the streets