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.

A-Z Thinks Rap Veterans Need To Fall Back and Give J.Cole And Drake The Spotlight

A-Z, an old rapper himself; a rap veteran who dropped his debut album (DOE OR DIE) in 1995,  thinks the other rap veterans need to step aside and give chance to the new cats to get the kind of fame and credibility the old rappers have been enjoying for a long time now.

Below is what he had to say;

"Listen, Drake is kicking it and his flow is what's needed," AZ said in an interview with Mikey T The Movie Star. "You got the Wiz Khalifa, you got the J. Cole, you got a couple of cats that are laying it down and they're trying to keep [hip-hop] alive. You gotta give somebody a chance. You know what I'm saying? The old cats can't do it forever. You know what I mean? Those [new artists] that are out, I appreciate it."

Well, i think he has a point. I think Jay-Z needs to retire for real, and busta rhymes, and the other rap vets. They need to allow these new breeds like j.cole and them create their own legacy without them in it. I know the rappers that were kicking in the late 80's(big daddy kane, rakim...) went of for a while, and that was when we had Biggie, Tupac, Nas, and Jay-z, Busta Rhymes and the likes come on the scene. I think the majority of rap listeners are teens and tweens; so, i think their peers need to be allowed to serve that demograph with what they want.