Best Rapper Alive Competition Feels Slim Shady
- added October 13, 2008
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- J_Jammer
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If you feel like there's a pun in the headline of this blog post, good.
Last week Vibe magazine announced that Eminem had won its Best Rapper Alive competition, a NCAA-style tournament that pitted the "top" 64 MCs against each other.
The online contest polled users over a 5-week period. During the first week, the 64 competing rappers were paired off and users were asked to select the best 32 artists. The second week, that group of 32 lyricists was also grouped in twos and the voters picked their favorite 16. Over the subsequent weeks, the list dwindled down to the last b-boys standing, Jay-Z and Eminem. Eminem won by a landslide of 69 percent, compared to Jay-Z's 31 percent.
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Last week Vibe magazine announced that Eminem had won its Best Rapper Alive competition, a NCAA-style tournament that pitted the "top" 64 MCs against each other.
The online contest polled users over a 5-week period. During the first week, the 64 competing rappers were paired off and users were asked to select the best 32 artists. The second week, that group of 32 lyricists was also grouped in twos and the voters picked their favorite 16. Over the subsequent weeks, the list dwindled down to the last b-boys standing, Jay-Z and Eminem. Eminem won by a landslide of 69 percent, compared to Jay-Z's 31 percent.
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WTF...the bracket only included rappers that get main stream media air play. In addition, it paired greats with each other...ahhh..its always 1 vs 8, 2 vs 7, ect. Em is great...but he is not the greatest.
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em can rap but his music is disposable. most rap is. but in order to be called great, you must at least compose one classic/spinnable LP... The ranking system for this is probably biased. I mean, there's a lot of white people that only listen to rap because of his success and that he is white. As seen elsewhere, when a white person performs close to what the black average is, it's pandemonium. Thats ridiculous.
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