what do we know about rappers?

yesterday yami and I listed our favorite rappers. Then we created a way to score them, and then ranked them. On a 1-5 scale we scored them based on lyrics, flow, consistency throughout career, and cleverness (we needed another category).

Melissa's List rapper: scores: total personal favorite song
1. Nas: 5-5-5-4: 19 "made you look"
2. Andre' 3000: 5-5-4-5: 19
3. Jay-z: 4-5-4-5: 18 "takeover"
4. Mos Def: 5-5-3-5: 18 "new world water"
5. Lil Wayne: 3-5-5-4: 17 "sky is the limit" "dont touch me remix" (where the name of this blog came from)
6. Biggie: 4-5-4-4: 17 "gimme da loot"
7. Common: 5-5-3-4: 17 "resurection"
8. Kanye West: 3-4-5-4: 16 "lollipop remix"
9. Lauryn Hill: 5-5-1-5: 16 "fu-gee la"
10. Busta Rhymes: 4-5-3-3: 15 "scenario" & "scenrio remix"
11. Method Man: 5-5-2-3: 15 "M E T H O D man"
12. Ghostface: 3-5-3-3: 14 "you know i'm no good"
13. The Streets: 5-4-2-3: 14 "all got our run ins" + Entire "a grand don't come from free" album

Yami's List

1. Lil Wayne: 5-5-5-5: 20
2. digable planets: 5-4-5-5: 19 "dog it"
3. Mos Def: 5-5-5-4: 17 "mathemtics"
4. RZA: 5-4-5-4.5: 18.5 "liquid swords"
5. Jay-z: 4-5-4-5: 18 "its alright"
6. camp lo: 5-5-3-5: 18 "luchini"
7. Ghostface: 5-5-3-4: 17 "guns and razors"
8. de la soul: 4-5-3-5: 17 "stakes is high"
9. T.I. : 5-5-3-4: 17 "Bring em out"
10. cool kids: 3-4-5-4: 16 "black mags"
11. kurtis blow: 5-3-5-3: 16
12. The clipse: 5-3-3-2: 13 "zen" seriously. Not even gridin...
13. Kanye west: 5-1-2-4: 12 "can't tell me nothin"

Yami didn't even want to list Lil Wayne because she has a problem admitting she likes him. However she easily gave him a 5 in every category. He was the only person on both lists who got a perfect score. She also tried to dispute my decision to score Andre' 3000 and method man so high. I believe her list has been completely discredited with the addition of the Clipse. We all liked grindin, but come on. She wanted to give them a higher score for consistenc, but i refused.

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