Souls Of Mischief on Soulja Boy, Jay-Z, Lil Wayne and their Top 10 G.O.A.T (Video)
“What’s your criteria? Who made the most money or who has the most skills?”
Last month, SoulCulture caught up with Souls Of Mischief in London and the discussion turned to the frequently debated subject of The Greatest [emcees] Of All Time.
In this mini roundtable discussion, Opio and Phesto discuss, amongst much more, the flaws of corporate lists – such as MTV’s – and the variety of factors one should consider when assessing The Greatest Of All Time. Tajai insists (contrary to Baby‘s recent comments, “How can you be the best if you don’t make the most money?”) that innovation is the most important factor – then he puts it out there – “Name one thing Jay-Z or Lil Wayne brought to Hip Hop that’s new? …They brought nothing new to Hip Hop. Zero.” – before giving his own Top 10 G.O.A.T list.
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Whats your criteria? Who are your Top 10 Greatest Of All Time?
UPDATE
Soulja Boy had a few interesting comments to make on the youtube video….BUT he promptly removed them…
Thank goodness for screenshots.
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These guys definitely have a point in what they’re saying. When you really think about it Jay and Weezy haven’t necessarily bought something completely new to the table, but they definitely raised the standards. And they took something that already existed and created something from it. The foundation of hiphop is about borrowing something and turning it into something ‘new’. But of course you need pioneers to create what’s ‘new’.
I definitely think there’s a bit of a generation gap though. When the guy named his top 10 list, most of the MC’s were pretty old skool. Not saying they weren’t great (because they obviously were), I just noticed he didn’t mention any contemporary rappers.
People who grew up in the 70’s will say their generation had the best music and wont particularly appreciate the newer stuff, people in the 80’s will say the same thing, people in the 90’s will do too and so on.
I remember loving R&B music in the 90’s. it was soulful, the ‘swing’ years. But I don’t like contemporary R&B, i find it too poppy. But a 15 year girl may beg to differ.
Someone of my generation may put Pac, Big, Andre 3000, Eminen, JayZ, Naz, Weezy etc on that list, because that’s the Hiphop that spoke to us. Maybe to a lot of people in my generation these people bought something ‘new’ to the table.
Either way there’s no right or wrong answer, its a debatable topic, (which I think is beautiful). But I gotta agree naming Soulja Boy in this debate is practically insulting.
Vanessa