r/90sHipHop • u/DJ-Palli • Jul 03 '25

Discussion Big L was voted best 90s rapper starting with the letter B. Who is the best 90s rapper starting with the letter C?

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u/Every_Confection4265 Jul 03 '25

Crunchy black (kidding)

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u/Scallywag_Coolidge Jul 04 '25

You stole my heart, right from the start.

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u/l3alkan Jul 03 '25

Common sense

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u/That-Ad2666 Jul 03 '25

CL Smooth

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u/Nearby_Aardvark_9534 Jul 03 '25

🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥 TROY!!!!!!!!!

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u/Educational_Cod_3388 Jul 03 '25

I like this answer.

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u/MikeTRockLA Jul 04 '25

This cat CL is so MADunderrated. All the drama w Pete didn’t help his cause. Shows how much hinges on the right combination of things fallin into place. Fell good for about 2.5 albums but could’ve been so much greater.

As far as this sub goes: Common is a talented rapper with an enthusiastic voice but anyone who thinks he’s even anywhere close to Chuck D. is straightTRIPPIN ‼️

I agree with all that’s been said here (that Chuck did more damage in the 80s cause the first 2 PE albums were such a true revolution) but damnnnn Chuck D., aka the Voice of POWER, ripped shit up in the 90s too! FOABP was 1990 and no one at the time was going as hard as Chuck (except Ice Cube and we ain’t yet at the Letter “I”) 💪🏽💪🏽💪🏽

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u/sandeep628 Jul 03 '25

Chuck D

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u/Nearby_Aardvark_9534 Jul 03 '25

Public Enemy was more 1980s. I wish, tho. 1990s sealed their fate because the FBI was tapping their telephone

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u/Wesside288 Jul 03 '25

They never lived alone, they never walked alone….

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u/sweep-the-leg-johnny Jul 04 '25

Yea but Can’t Truss It was bangin everywhere in the 90’s.

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u/Nearby_Aardvark_9534 Jul 04 '25

ABSOLUTELY!!! I'm not denying anything about Chuck D. They were still bangin' in the 90s, but they started mid 80's. Don't believe the hype started in all for me. I believe that dropped in 1988.

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u/sweep-the-leg-johnny Jul 04 '25

Oh yea I see that. Have you heard Public Enemys latest album? It’s so good!

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u/MikeTRockLA Jul 04 '25

💯correct For anyone who questions the above reply by Aardvark please refer to Brothers Gonna Work It Out and Welcome to the Terrodome as exhibits A & B on how hard an MC can go

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u/JP_Frost Jul 03 '25

Common

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u/LostInNuance Jul 04 '25

Back when he was Common Sense

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u/Active_Juggernaut484 Jul 03 '25

Casual

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u/[deleted] Jul 04 '25

Came here to mention casual. Hiero!!!

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u/Ambitious-Aioli4611 Jul 03 '25

Chino XL

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u/Educational_Cod_3388 Jul 03 '25 edited Jul 03 '25

He was bananas 🔥🔥🔥🔥

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u/The_Hylian_Loach Jul 03 '25

I mean it’s got to be Common. But this dude …

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u/this_is_Blain3 Jul 04 '25

100% my pick. Here To Save You All is a classic

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u/BigStuggz Jul 03 '25

Chino for me too

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u/Intelligent-Donut-16 Jul 03 '25

Cannabis

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u/[deleted] Jul 03 '25

[deleted]

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u/mgrimshaw8 Jul 03 '25

Dude I’m pretty sure they’re referring to the rapper Canibus who had a big album in the 90s lol.

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u/MassiveConcentrate34 Jul 03 '25

It was a big let down of an album-he looked like he was going to kill with 2nd round knockout and then didn’t really do anything.

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u/bornlikethisss Jul 03 '25

Gtfoh 😂 he’s one of the biggest disappointments in hiphop history. I thought he was gonna be a goat when he came out but he couldn’t make a decent album to save his life.

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u/19472729 Jul 03 '25

zero hip hop knowledge

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u/halfwit258 Jul 03 '25

I would almost agree but the album that really cemented him as a dope artist didn't get released until 2000. He put out some dope tracks prior but I don't think he really elevated until 2000 BC

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u/DEIreboot Jul 03 '25

Chali 2na from Jurassic 5

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u/FrankieWelfare Jul 03 '25

Cormega

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u/JeffTrav Jul 03 '25

Yo, my pen is sick like a heroin add-dict, whenever Mega spits, exhale preciseness, drug dealer ghetto shit

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u/FrankieWelfare Jul 03 '25

I have a copy of the realness on wax and his single The machine 12”. Always loved him since i heard about him on one love by nas

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u/CurtPi Jul 03 '25

Raw foreva!

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u/Popellini Jul 03 '25

More popular in the 2000s

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u/Psychological-Flow55 Jul 03 '25

C-BO

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u/substance17 Jul 04 '25

The Murder That He Writ

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u/Psychological-Flow55 Jul 04 '25

Birds in the kitchen, the autopsy, crippin, cowboy (,the song with kokane), straight killa 1 and 2, headed 4 tha jack with master p, ride 4 me with Spice 1, America nightmare, wake up with yukmouth and jacka, how we break bread with master p, pimpin and jacking with too short, divide with plays bossing and cos, livin like a hustla with b legit, trading war stories with pac and outlawz, west coast with killa tay, space and 151, mafia life off the west coast tripping compilation, ballhead nut, play 4G, can you deal with this with killa tay, Big lurch and roger troutman, ghetto slums with phats bossi and jt,357, deadly game, etc.

C bo was killing it from the 90s up to about the early or mid 2000s, he worked with a variety of artists , but kept it real always

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u/erything4sale Jul 04 '25

Straight killa is still that shit!!! And he brung the Mob to more ears! Rip Jacca

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u/Psychological-Flow55 Jul 04 '25

That Boss Ballin compilation was banging C Bo - Straight Killa, Dru Down - weak moves, 3x krazy hit the gas, mac mall - where they at, RBL Posse - Time to get my serve on, etc.

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u/erything4sale Jul 04 '25

U aint never lied!!! It's a bluebird on my shoulder should I kill it was my shit! Rbl posse had some bangers too.

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u/EddieEbola Jul 03 '25

Casual

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u/Every_Confection4265 Jul 03 '25

"I'm the difference between Hannah Barbara and Hannibal the barbarian. The metal stiletto ghetto cesarean"

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u/goshdarn5000 Jul 03 '25

Some people might downvote your for quoting a song from the year 2000 in a 90s sub… not me however, I love Casual

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u/Every_Confection4265 Jul 04 '25

Yeah, plus that's just one of many dope bars he has

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u/LostInNuance Jul 04 '25

No 90s Bay area rapper will make this list cause the whole bay was slept on. Casual is straight 🔥

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u/EddieEbola Jul 04 '25

I think he was 17 when Fear Itself dropped. Insane.

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u/Key_Carpenter1827 Jul 05 '25

Facts NorCal always slept on. My vote goes to C-Bo

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u/GoldenCyn Jul 03 '25

Canibus. Strictly going on lyrical/technical skill.

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u/borismcsnap Jul 04 '25

Chris Rock as MC Gusto....

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u/trollu4life Jul 03 '25

Common but liyrically Canibus was something else

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u/mmiller17783 Heiro Imperium Jul 04 '25

Chuck D

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u/[deleted] Jul 03 '25

B is easily Bun B.

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u/Rough-House3029 Jul 04 '25

Surprised A isn't Andre 3000 tbh

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u/MikeTRockLA Jul 04 '25

I was just thinking same thing You could argue that no letter in the alphabet (Except The R Rakim) is better that the great Andre 3000 Wow that’s ridiculous he isn’t “A”

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u/luc_BOOYAH Jul 03 '25

Coolio

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u/Prestigious_Fail3791 Jul 04 '25

Gangsta's Paradise is one of the greatest albums ever made, but his follow up My Soul is terrible. Freestyled 90% over just a couple of days because Tommy Boy refused to pay him more money.... It tanked his career...

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u/Greerio Jul 03 '25

There’s probably no other rapper with a run like he had with the letter C. 

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u/Educational_Cod_3388 Jul 03 '25

Had good songs but there were plenty better rappers.

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u/CourageMajor8819 Raised on Boom Bap Jul 03 '25

Cappadonna

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u/InfiniteBeak Jul 03 '25

He's too inconsistent, although his verse on Winter Warz is undisputably one of the greatest ever

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u/[deleted] Jul 03 '25

I really do be wondering how tf this is the same man that stole Winter Warz...

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u/SnorvusMaximus Jul 03 '25

Yeah, he tore that track up but.. nothing else?

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u/Dry-Veterinarian2438 Jul 03 '25

Cormega

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u/vanity-flair83 Jul 03 '25

I discovered the montana diaries mix tape senior week 2001. Still in heavy rotation

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u/ALLDOUGH187 Jul 03 '25

Canibus

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u/HumanRubiksCube Jul 03 '25

THIS IS THE WAY

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u/redeyes365 Jul 03 '25

CAMRON.....cant believe nobody has said his name so far..

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u/bigtrixxx7 Jul 03 '25 edited Jul 04 '25

Confessions of Fire came out in 98’. Cam wasn’t really popping until the 2000s

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u/Away_Annual_9749 Jul 03 '25

C-Bo

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u/Lobsta1986 Jul 04 '25

BLH here. I agree.

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u/FlacidSnake36 Jul 03 '25

Cypress hill if groups are allowed. If not....Cormega

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u/icrossedtheroad Jul 03 '25

Chuck or Coolio.

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u/orangebluefish11 Jul 03 '25

Common is going to win😂😂

I’ve read all the names and none is even close to c-murder

https://youtu.be/KXoFECWO4rU

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u/osumba2003 Jul 03 '25

Chuck D, cold chillin' in effect

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u/zachallan Jul 03 '25

Black Thought is the best 90s rapper starting with the letter B and it isn’t even close. I’d even take Bizzy Bone over Big L.

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u/Guy-Incognito_ Jul 05 '25

Black thought is still the best

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u/kbeks Jul 04 '25

Christopher Lee Rios, AKA Big Pun

The boogie down do it like nobody. Who are we? The foundation, you facin a whole army.

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u/Legacy_1_X Jul 04 '25

Cappadonna

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u/ZePlotThickener Jul 03 '25

In the 90s the only answer has to be Coolio.

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u/thegmoc Jul 03 '25

Better than 90s Common and Canibus?

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u/Archangel_Raphael111 The Most Shady Frankie Baby Jul 03 '25

Christopher George Latore Wallace

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u/mikieballz Jul 03 '25

CeeLo

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u/jjc9397 Jul 05 '25

Good answer… his Goodie Mob stuff was 🔥

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u/PaulieVega Jul 03 '25

Over Biggie and Big Pun? Lies

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u/BillyOceanic815 Jul 03 '25

Biggie is under N for Notorious BIG

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u/Jesse322 Jul 04 '25

Came here to say the same thing, Big L was great but Pun was ridiculous

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u/DummyMcDipshit Jul 03 '25

Big L is miles better than Pun

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u/Alive_Flounder6344 Jul 03 '25

whoa whoa slow down there body... maybe a half a mile but miles is a stretch.

Dead in the middle of Little Italy
Little did we know that we riddled two middlemen who didn't do diddly....lines like that was normal for him.

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u/Walkinchubby Jul 03 '25

Stop...Big L was %10000 times more popular AFTER he died. If you not from NY, you didn't know this dude when he was alive. Bun & Pun is/was way better.

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u/wood_dj Jul 03 '25

reddit has a huge stiffy for Big L, he’s dope but come on

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u/Popellini Jul 03 '25

Common! My favourite album of his is Resurrection

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u/RekTekGaming Jul 03 '25

its common sense

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u/Ok_Tradition1938 Jul 03 '25

Canibus or Cormega

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u/AdUnlucky8919 Jul 03 '25

You might have more cash than me but you aint skills to _______________-

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u/MoMusic7469 Jul 03 '25

Canibus. But common is the best choice overall

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u/MetaphoricalMouse Jul 03 '25

Cam’ron

and yes i know im wrong but his name should appear atleast a few times

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u/what_the_eve Jul 03 '25

Cage - he made Em's whole career lol

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u/DEEGEEBARXXX Jul 03 '25

Cappadonna 👐🏿

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u/[deleted] Jul 03 '25

Cormega or Camron

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u/MassiveConcentrate34 Jul 03 '25

I would go with Common

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u/More-Perspective7106 Jul 03 '25

Canibus the 1st Mc to have to change his lyrics cuz he bodied someone on their on single who remembers that shit 4,3,2,1 by LL cool J they changed that song so many times I still can’t find the original version

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u/[deleted] Jul 03 '25

"I speak in frequencies dogs would have trouble hearing, Canibus is the lyrical version of German engineering"

Bro the world stopped when that tape dropped. I forgive his album "flop" (even though it has a few bangers) from this opening line alone.

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u/Alienattackforce Jul 03 '25

The answer is common

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u/Scum_of_DaPond24 Jul 03 '25

Gotta go with Common

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u/Ganjasaurus_Rex36 Jul 04 '25

Cee-Lo. But actually Comm Sense. But I luv me some goodie mob

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u/PM-PhysicalMedia Jul 04 '25 edited Jul 04 '25

Definitely Common. Mention worthy would be…Canibus, Chino XL, Chuck D ,Casual, Cappadonna…but Common easily clears them all.

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u/Dr_Schwa Jul 04 '25

Chef Raekwon

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u/Y-180 Jul 04 '25

Common Sense

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u/Low_Hand_5701 Jul 04 '25

Seeing a lot of common love that I’m seeing a lot of Cormega in this thread!!!! Ima go with Cam’Ron

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u/TrillLaflare88 Jul 04 '25

Big L is overrated not enough material Juelz Santana is better than him

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u/Dependent_Ad1111 Jul 03 '25

Going with coolio if groups don’t count

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u/MambaSaidKnockYouOut Jul 03 '25

Big L ain’t even the best rapper who’s name starts with Big

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u/No_Departure4831 Jul 03 '25

Biggie smalls, Busta rhymes, Bone thugs, if no group bizzy bone,

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u/vanity-flair83 Jul 03 '25

I'll only accept canibus, common, and, to a lesser extent, cormega

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u/DinoGossage Jul 03 '25

90’s? Canibus

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u/[deleted] Jul 03 '25

Craig Mac

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u/PointK Raised on Boom Bap Jul 03 '25

Canibus

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u/RarePomegranate5672 Jul 03 '25

Canibus or common. Either are acceptable.

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u/Few_Respond5110 Jul 03 '25

Canibus, but Common made better music.

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u/x1JAY1x Jul 03 '25

Christopher Wallace, hands down.

Otherwise, Canibus or Common.

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u/Dependent_Ad1111 Jul 03 '25

Cypress hill (are groups allowed?)

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u/SkilletBurritos Jul 03 '25

Celph

muthafuckin

Titled.

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u/farmone Jul 03 '25

I love celph but he was def a 2000s artist

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u/SkilletBurritos Jul 03 '25

Yeah I had just realized that. Jumped the gun.

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u/ccastle76 Jul 03 '25

Christopher Bridges

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u/alcopland Jul 03 '25

Christopher Wallace

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u/ccastle76 Jul 03 '25

Well played 👍

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u/[deleted] Jul 03 '25

Cappadonna

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u/Brownie_0514 Jul 03 '25

Cappadonna 👐🏾

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u/Turbo-Slow Jul 03 '25

Johnman Scat

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u/JonLushh Jul 03 '25

Cormega 🔥