The Top 15 Best Old School Rappers of All Time
When you’re talking hip hop, it’s always gotta start with the old school. Those pioneering mic controllers who laced the blueprints of the culture we hold dear today. Grandmaster Melle Mel and his lyricism that still echoes in the bars of every MC with a dream. Kurtis Blow, the first MC to go gold, setting the pace for rappers to stack plaques and break records. And you can’t forget Grandmaster Caz and Kool Moe Dee, their influence reverberating through every multi-syllabic verse spit today. Then there’s The Sugarhill Gang and The Treacherous Three, proving that you could make it on wax, that rap wasn’t just some fad to be forgotten. Same goes for The Fearless Four and Afrika Bambaataa, pioneers who moved the culture forward in a real way. T La Rock, Spoonie Gee, MC Sha-Rock, Lovebug Starski, and the Cold Crush Brothers – they all played their part in this grand tapestry of hip-hop. From their rhymes, flows, and beats, to the way they rocked a crowd, they were the forefathe...