AZ Comments on "Greatest Rapper of All Time" Issue

The greatest of all time has always been a debate in Rap/hip hop, and a lot of people from LL COOL J to Jay-Z have claimed it for themselves. Must people even believe the title belongs to dead rapper, Biggie (which i feel does not make sense, because he can not be judge more than the work he did, and it would mean that what ever every other person does would not count).

Below is what AZ has to say about the whole issue-
Who's the greatest of all time? I don't even know what names you could put [in that category]. I haven't studied it and it doesn't really make any sense. Hip-hop is too young to be calling out someone as the greatest of all time.

There's so many people that brought so much to the rap game in different zones in different categories throughout hip-hop. So what my question becomes, how can you label who's what? You got the eclectic people, you have the backpackers, the gangsters, the dancing rappers and so on. There's just too many categories for people to be able to choose a greatest of all-time.

It's never made sense to me. Calling out or naming a greatest of all-time don't make no sense. And nobody makes all those genres of music, as far as hip-hop, as one artist. You got some who go pop because the machine behind them pushing them into that genre and so you hear it everywhere. But you can't say these people are lyrically inclined as well as they can't do the gangster music, the party music and the other sorts of records out there.

It doesn't make no sense. I don't study none of that. I'm just in my own zone. I'm literally in my zone and I don't know what's going on elsewhere because there can't be a greatest of all time debate. It doesn't mean anything.

THE FALL OF EAST COAST RAPPERS IN HIPHOP(PART 1).

In the 80's and 90's it was all about the east coast rappers. The west had some dominance around this period(late 80's to mid 90's), but you had more of the east. The east gave us most of todays respected rap legends like k.r.s 1, rakim, big daddy kane, cool g rap, ll cool j, the whole wu-tang-clan, the late biggie, nas, jay-z...And the list goes on and on.
Around the early 2000's, rappers started getting respected for howmuch money they had and could spend, as opposed to how skilled they really were.

FABOLOUS'S TOP 5 DEAD OR ALIVE.

Allhiphop.com caught up with fabolous through his tight schedule. And they were able to squiz out his top five dead or alive list.
What do you think about his list?

1. biggie.
2. jay-z.
3. tupac.
4. eminem.
5. big daddy kane.

Before i saw his list, i made a guess of four rappers i believed would be on his list judging from his own style of rap. I came up with; jay-z, biggie, eminem and ll cool j. I was not surprised that i was on point, apart from ll cool j that is.
The big dady kane addition on his list didn't come as shocker cos kane more or less mentored jay. So jay got much of big daddy kane in him. Old rap listeners can testify to this.
The one thing majority of the people on his list, including he himself, have in common is wordplay. They are the masters of wordplay.
I most say though that the tupac addition made the list odd. It made it seem like he just threw in tupac's name because people like to put pac and biggie on their list. More like respect for the dead. Or just the band wagon effect.

HIPHOP SCENE IS BECOMING PEACEFUL. (PART 1)

Since Jay-z and Nas squashed their beef, it seems not impossible for any other set of rappers to make peace.
Rap beefs have been present on the hiphop scene for years. KRS1 and MC SHEM had their thing back in the late 80's. Dr dre and eazy-e had theirs in the early 90's. Beefs have sprung-up from dissagreement with former label mates, to clash of egos, to plainly trying to prove that you are better than one rapper or the other. It had always remained on wax, untill the Biggie/Tupac issue.
Back in 1995 west coast rapper, tupac shakur was shot five times upon entering the QUARD studios in New York. It just so happened that biggie and puff daddy were also present in the building during the shooting. Pac concluded that they must have known about the hit, and that gave birth to their fued. The beef led to the death of these two legendary rappers.
There have been a lot of rap wars after that, but must of them have stayed on wax.