The Lord of War - Evil Dictators

A warlord is a person with power who has both military and civil

Dictators, as defined in the dictionary, is a person who rules with utter supremacy, and usually uses force to get their way

Dictators usually go for the government system called “communism”, which is an unrestricted political system: the political theory or system in which all property and wealth is owned in a classless civilization by all the affiliates of that society.

I am happy to live in a democracy because I feel we have the rights and freedom to speak, write, and express views. You can say what you want but doesn’t mean anyone listens to it.  Everyone always says this is a free country, but I feel we also have our restrictions as well.

The 20th century brought us some of the world’s most powerful and rich dictatorships. While most followed a straightforward recipe of murder, terror, and genocide, the following managed to plunder the nations they had taken control of in ways that boggle the mind

I have spent a considerable amount of time researching dictators and have come up with an official top 5. Finding estimates on some of these guys is near impossible.

Anyway Enjoy:

5. Idi Amin

Uganda  1971 – 1979

Death Toll – 300,000

Movies based on Idi Amin – The last King of Scotland

Idi Amin was a military leader and President of Uganda from 1971 to 1979. Amin joined the British colonial regiment, the King's African Rifles, in 1946, and eventually held the rank of Major General and Commander of the Ugandan Army prior to taking power in the military coup of January 1971, deposing Milton Obote. He later promoted himself to Field Marshal while he was the head of state.

Two-thirds of the army's 9,000 soldiers were executed by Amin during his first year in power. In total, he killed around 300,000 people.

In 1972, Amin expelled the country's 40,000-80,000 Indians and Pakistanis in the closing months of the year, reportedly after receiving "a message from God" during a dream

During 1975 he staged a publicity stunt for the world media, forcing white residents of Kampala to carry him on a throne then kneel before him and recite an oath of loyalty

Near the end of 1976, Amin officially declared himself "the uncrowned King of Scotland". (despite the fact that the proper name for the title is King of Scots) Amin lavished his guests and dignitaries with Scottish accordion music, while dressed in Scottish kilts.

In January 1979, Nyerere mobilised the Tanzania People's Defence Force and counterattacked, joined by several groups of Ugandan exiles who had united as the Uganda National Liberation Army (UNLA). Amin's army retreated steadily, and despite military help from Libya's Muammar al-Gaddafi, he was forced to flee into exile by helicopter on 11 April 1979 when Kampala was captured. He escaped first to Libya where he stayed until 1980, and ultimately settled in Saudi Arabia where the Saudi royal family allowed him sanctuary and paid him a generous subsidy in return for his staying out of politics.

4. Slobadan Milosevic

Yugoslavia, 1992-99

Death Toll 400,000

Movies Based on Slobdan Milosevic: None.  But there are movies based on the war: Behind the enemy lines and The Hunting Party

Yugoslavia was the name of a country made up of six states located in the Balkans region of Eastern Europe. Each state represented different ethnic groups.After the fall of Communism in 1989, Bosnia and Croatia, two of the six states, decided to break away from Yugoslavia and become independent. The break-up of Yugoslavia caused three different wars.
Slobodan Milosevic, president of Yugoslavia at that time, wanted to keep all the states under his control, so he went to war with them. However, Milosevic did not fight the clean fight.
When Milosevic was president, he had a plan for a Greater Serbia, which meant a state for Serb people. The Serbs are a distinct ethnic group, with their own language and religion.
As the former Yugoslavia states split apart, Milosevic developed a plan for a Serb-only state that was similar to what Hitler sought to do in Germany.
Slowly, thousands of non-Serbs living in Yugoslavia disappeared. Many were killed, and their bodies later discovered in mass graves throughout Croatia, Bosnia, and Kosovo. Non-Serbs, lucky not to be outright killed, were fired from their jobs and kicked out their homes. Their homes and jobs were given to Serbs.
When Milosevic stepped up his plan to slaughter all the ethnic Albanians living in Kosovo, NATO, an international force led by the United States, launched air strikes to stop him.
In 1999, NATO bombed Yugoslavia for 78 days, destroying roads, bridges and utilities. The bombing stopped after Milosevic backed away from his plan.
In October 2000, the people of Yugoslavia voted Milosevic out of office.



Mr Milosevic faced charges of war crimes and crimes against humanity for his alleged central role in the wars in Bosnia, Croatia and Kosovo during the 1990s. He also faced genocide charges over the Bosnia war.

He was found dead in the detention centre at The Hague tribunal

3.Adolf Hitler

Germany - 1934 to 1945

Death Toll: 17 Million

Movies Based on Hitler: The Boys from Brazil. Movies based on World War 2: The Great Escape, Saving Private Ryan and Das Boot

He was the leader of the Nazi Party. He was the absolute dictator of Germany from 1934 to 1945. He gained support by promoting values like German nationalism and anti-semitism. Hitler was appointed chancellor in 1933 and began the Third Reich. Hitler was power hungry as all hell, hated the shit out of Jews (and others), and wanted  hegemony in Europe. The militarization that was needed to complete such a lofty goal led to the outbreak of World War II. Nazi forces engaged in the systematic murder of as many as 17 million civilians, an estimated six million of whom were Jews, and 1.5 million Romanis.

Hitler’s role in this dark era of history will likely never be forgotten and neither will his quiet elimination of several million Jews, Gypsies, communists, homosexuals, and the handicapped in what we now call the holocaust. This was quite literally murder on an epic scale, on the battlefield, in the concentration camps and on the streets.

Were it not for the holocaust, Hitler might have been forgiven for the war and remembered as a great general in the same way as Napoleon. He might even have been patted on the head for having a really good go at world domination and given a sticker reading ‘I tried my best.

2.Jozef Stalin

USSR  1932-39

Death Toll: 23 Million

Movie based on Stalin: Red Terror

Joe Stalin was the leader of the Soviet Union which time he killed or exported millions of ethnic minorities, oversaw the starvation of thousands of his own people and sent anybody who even looked at him the wrong way to labour camps. Still, he did kick the crap out of Nazi Germany. That’s something to thank him for. Although the establishment of the Eastern Bloc in it’s place was not so much of an improvement.





Stalin oversaw a massive overhaul of the soviet economy, industry and agriculture. The resulting disruption, however, was the cause of mass starvation in the Ukraine. There the situation was so extreme that reports of cannibalism spread. Without a doubt the darkest component of Stalin’s regime, however, was his ‘great purge’ which killed an estimated 700,000 people. The majority of those killed in the purge were ordinary citizens. This attempt to purge the nation of traitors, spies and even potential radicals meant that even uttering the word capitalism could have you sent to the gulag to be worked, starved, beaten or shot to death.

1.Mao Zedong

(China, 1958-61 and 1966-69, Tibet 1949-50)

Death Toll:  49 to 78 Million

Mao was a Chinese revolutionary, political theorist, and communist leader who led the People’s Republic of China. Mao, while controversial, is still widely considered a savior of the nation.  During  his first five years from 1949 – 53 he is said to have systematically killed between 4 to 6 million people by sentencing them to die or by sending them to “reform through labor” camps. He organized mass repressions, established execution quotas, and defended his actions in these early years as necessary for securing power for “The People’s Republic of China”.



His social programs the Great Leap Forward and the Cultural Revolution are two of the most ill-fated, poorly named, initiatives ever. The first was an effort to rapidly industrialize China. His focus was on making China a premier exporter of steel, and to this end he asked everybody to make  it. The problem was it got many citizens to make smelting shops in their backyards. Not only was the steel of little value, but it was made from everything lying around the house including their own cooking supplies! Without the tools to make food, no money coming in from the steel, and no money to survive ~ a lot of people starved to death. The estimates on this program alone are 20 million deaths! 

His policies and political purges from 1949 to 1976 caused the deaths of 49 to 78 million people.

Above guys were sick, but there were many more sick dictators about.

Leopold II of Belgium (Congo, 1886-1908)

Death Toll  8,000,000

Hideki Tojo (Japan, 1941-44)

Death Toll 5,000,000 (civilians in WWII)

Ismail Enver (Turkey, 1915-20)

Death Toll  1,200,000 Armenians (1915) + 350,000 Greek Pontians and 480,000 Anatolian Greeks (1916-22) + 500,000 Assyrians (1915-20)

Pol Pot (Cambodia, 1975-79)

Death Toll  1,700,000

Kim Il Sung (North Korea, 1948-94)

Death Toll  1.6 million (purges and concentration camps)

Menghistu (Ethiopia, 1975-78)

Death Toll 1,500,000

Yakubu Gowon (Biafra, 1967-1970)

Death Toll 1,000,000

Leonid Brezhnev (Afghanistan, 1979-1982)

Death Toll 900,000

Jean Kambanda (Rwanda, 1994)

Death Toll 800,000

Benito Mussolini (Ethiopia, 1936; Libya, 1934-45; Yugoslavia, WWII)

Death Toll 300,000

Saddam Hussein (Iran 1980-1990 and Kurdistan 1987-88)

Death Toll 600,000

Charles Taylor (Liberia, 1989-1996)

Death Toll 220,000

Richard Nixon (Vietnam, 1969-1974)

Death Toll 70,000 (Vietnamese and Cambodian civilians)

Fidel Castro (Cuba, 1959-1999)

Death Toll 30,000

Robert Mugabe (Zimbabwe, 1982-87, Ndebele minority)

Death Toll 20,000

I can keep going on but the list will never stop

Sources

·  Charny (1988) Genocide: A Critical Bibliographic Review

·  Stephane Courtois: Black Book on Communism (1995)

·  Matthews: Guiness Book of Records (2000)

·  Clodfelter: Warfare and Armed Conflicts (1992)

·  Elliot: Twentieth Century Book of the Dead (1972)

·  Bouthoul : A List of the 366 Major Armed Conflicts of the period 1740-1974, Peace Research (1978)

·  R.J. Rummel: Death by Government - Genocide and Mass Murder (1994)

·  Matt White's website

http://www.popten.net/2010/05/top-ten-most-evil-dictators-of-all-time-in-order-of-kill-count/

http://akorra.com/2010/03/04/top-10-most-infamous-dictators-in-history/

http://www.popten.net/2010/05/top-ten-most-evil-dictators-of-all-time-in-order-of-kill-count/

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and Wikipedia

The Best Secret Intelligence Agencies in the World

Intelligence agencies in any country play a very important role. Every country has its own intelligence agency. These agencies work is purely secret. Nobody knows that how they work.
There has been many great movies like James Bond, Bourne Ultimatum and great tv shows like 24. They are all based on Intelligence agencies. Are there really agents like Jack bauer and Jason Bourne. Do they really exist?
So which agency is the best in the world? There are plenty of movies based on Intelligence Agencies?
Agencies operate in a shadowy world. The best agencies are the ones which attract no attention to themselves
Here is my Top 5:
Apologies in advance regards to the you tube videos. As most videos are based on the negative factors rather the positives. But as journalist and Media people would say Negative stories sells more and attracts more viewers. I mean who would want to watch a video of someone rescue a cat from a tree? Well no one apart from the owner of the cat.
Anyway...take two: Here is my Top 5:

5. GRU/SVR  - RUSSIA

When one thinks of Russian intelligence, they usually think of the KGB.

Back in the day KGB  was One of the most dreaded player in the game of spying. It lives on the principle of – It is not sufficient to know, it is necessary to react. But the KGB was disbanded by Boris Yeltsin in 1995 This was broken up after the collapse of communism Now there are two main agencies who influence the foreign affairs.

SVR is the official foreign-operations successor to many prior Soviet-era foreign intelligence agencies. Its domestic equivalent, the FSB

GRU is the country's main military intelligence and reconnaissance agency, and reports directly to the general staff of Russia's armed forces. The directorate is much bigger than the KGB .

GRU were purported to be behind the assassination of former Chechen President Zelimkhan Abdumuslimovich Yandarbiyev, who was living in Qatar in 2004 and was accused of having links to Al-Qaeda by Russia and the United Nations. The former president was assassinated when a bomb ripped through his SUV in the Qatari capital of Doha.

SVR sends to the Russian president daily digests of intelligence, similar to the President's Daily Brief produced by the Central Intelligence Agency in the US. However, unlike the CIA, the SVR recommends to the president which policy options are preferable.

SVR actively recruits Russian citizens who live in foreign countries. "Once the SVR officer targets a Russian émigré for recruitment, they approach them, usually at their place of residence and make an effort to reach an understanding," said former FSB officer Aleksander Litvinenko. "If he or she refuses, the intelligence officer then threatens the would-be recruit with legal prosecution in Russia, and if the person continues to refuse, the charges are fabricated". It was reported that SVR prey on successful Russian businessmen abroad.

Best movies based on KGB/FSB OR GRU: Yuri Nosenko (1986), Red Scorpion( 1989), Bond movies such as The Living Daylight, From Russia with Love and many more.

4. MI 6 - U.K

Number 4. No way, some pople would say. I am saying they are lucky they are not in sixth place like their name. They have been so much in news over the last year for finding bodies in gym bag.
If you like watching movies then you must be knowing James Bond and his fondness of sophisticated guns, attractive babes and Smirnoff. This british spy agency is popular for its notorious and daredevil agents with a clear understanding of what they are expected to achieve

MI6 or, as it is known formally, the Secret Intelligence Service, was created just prior to World War I primarily to keep a close eye on the activities of the Imperial German government. Since then, MI6 has been heavily engaged during the major conflicts of the 20th and 21st centuries. Even before the 9/11 attacks, MI6 actively collaborated with their American counterparts in order to share intelligence and carry out particularly dicey covert ops

On 9/11, only 30 of MI6s 1,600 agents were working on counterterrorism. Since then, the agency has been on an all-out recruitment blitz that includes previously unheard of measures, such as taking out ads in newspapers and allowing agents to grant interviews

Among the fun facts revealed: There really is a person called Q who designs gadgets, just like in the James Bond films, but M is actually called C. MI6 has also taken out ads in online spy-themed computer games such as Tom Clancys Splinter Cell

Best MI6 Movies : James Bond Movies, The Bank Job

3. CIA - USA

 

Again no chance only third place, they had to be number one. Everyone knows they are the daddy of all agencies. Sorry again. But everyone knows CIA, as they are mentioned in every movie possible. They can’t be that damn covert. We all know that they exist.

 

CIA is the largest of the intelligence agencies and is responsible for gathering data from other countries that could impact U.S. policy. Agency (CIA) has three stated functions: 1) Obtaining and analyzing information about foreigners; 2) Propaganda and public relations; and, 3) Covert operations at the direction of the president

Highly funded and technologically most advanced Intelligence set-up in the world.

Despite the funding It has failed to control terrorism activities including 9/11, Not even a single top level Al-Qaeda leader captured own its own in the past 9 years – ‘they missed 1 Million’ Soviet troops marching into Afghanistan’. Iraq’s Weapons of Mass Destruction, Have the found them yet? You might get better answer by watching Greenzone movie starring Matt Damon.

But no one knows that what CIA really does

Best Movies based on CIA:  Syriana (2005), Body of Lies(2008),Bourne Movies (Identity, Supremacy and Ultimatum) ,The Good Shepherd(2008) AND Greenzone (2010)

2. Mossad - ISRAEL

 

The Mossad known in full as the Institute for Intelligence and Special Operations is the national intelligence agency of Israel. “Mossad” is a Hebrew word for institute or institution

 

Its responsible for intelligence collection, counter-terrorism and various covert operations. Its director reports directly to the head of state, the Prime Minister. Mossad is a civilian service, and does not use military ranks, although most of its staff have served in the Israeli defense forces as part of the country's compulsory draft system. Mossad's most notorious wing is the "Special Operations Division" or "Metsada," as it's also known. The Metsada has been involved in several assassinations, paramilitary operations, sabotage, and psychological warfare.

 Mossad Operation in Dubai – part 1

Israel’s intelligence agency is most famous for having taken out a number of PLO operatives in retaliation for the attack that killed eleven Israeli athletes at the 1972 Olympic games in Munich.

Also In 1960, the Mossad discovered that Adolf Eichmann, a notorious Nazi war criminal, was living in Argentina under the name of Ricardo Klement. He was captured by a team of Mossad agents and smuggled in to Israel where he was tried and executed

Mossad Operation in Dubai – part2

Movies based on Mossad: Munich (2005), You don’t mess with Zohan (2008) and Walk on Water (2004)

Mossad Operation in Dubai – part3

1 ISI - PAKISTAN

Suprised....ISI, who are? Well I mentioned in the beginning that the best agency doesn’t attract attention

With the lengthiest track record of success, the best know Intelligence so far on the scale of records is ISI.

No double agents, no agent ever caught on camera, the lowest budget but still affective. 
In war with 6 big intelligence agencies of the world. ISI has even countered MOSSAD in the 1980s and late ‘90s when there was a plan of a possible strike on Pakistan’s nukes

KGB, the best of its time, failed to counter ISI and protect Soviet interests in Central Asia

It has protected its nuclear weapons since formed and it has foiled Indian attempts to attain ultimate supremacy in the South-Asian theatres through internal destabilization of India.

The Inter-Services Intelligence was Established in 1948 during the Indo-Pakistani War of 1947. for safeguarding Pakistan’s interest, monitoring opposition politician and sustaining military rule in Pakistan, ISI is one of the very well organized intelligence agency in world. Apart from its outstanding structure it is controversial too and once it was termed as state within a state due to its cross-purpose policies

Its is believed to have one of the highest number of agents worldwide, close to 10,000. Only CIA have more.

Best movies based on ISI- None. Honestly could not find any. Apologies.

I even struggled to find youtube video. But I have added the link:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MDbGn4jTTGI



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Greatest Rappers of all time

So who is the greatest rapper when it comes delivering the lyrics? There have been hundreds and thousand of rappers that have come and gone. But there were handful who really made the difference.

This isn’t who has made the best video or just come with crap lyrics like I’ve got whores in different area code. This is about who was The Daddy in the Rap industry. If you are a fan of Kanye West or Lil Wayne you will be disappointed. This is about serious rapping.This about rappers who have made the impact through out the world. And rappers who were revolutionist.

This my Top 10:

10:

Dre

You may be surprised what is doing  dre in the top 10. Well Dre has been there with best from the start. With Pac and snoop dog to eminem and fiddy.

Dr. Dre, is an American record producer, rapper, record executive, and actor. He is the founder and current CEO of Aftermath Entertainment and a former co-owner and artist of Death Row Records, also having produced albums for and overseeing the careers of many rappers signed to those record labels, such as Snoop Dogg, Eminem and 50 Cent. As a producer he is credited as a key figure in the popularization of West Coast G-funk, a style of rap music characterized as synthesizer-based with slow, heavy beats.

Dr. Dre began his career in music as a member of the World Class Wreckin' Cru and he later found fame with the influential gangsta rap group N.W.A with Eazy-E and Ice Cube which popularized the use of explicit lyrics in rap to detail the violence of street life. His 1992 solo debut, The Chronic, released under Death Row Records, led him to become one of the best-selling American performing artists of 1993 and to win a Grammy Award for the single "Let Me Ride". In 1996, he left Death Row to establish his own label, Aftermath Entertainment. Under that label, he produced a compilation album titled Dr. Dre Presents the Aftermath in 1996, and released a solo album titled 2001 in 1999, for which he won the Grammy producer's award the next year.

During the 2000s, he focused his career on production for other artists, while occasionally contributing vocals to other artists' songs. Dr. Dre signed Eminem and 50 Cent to his record label in 1996 and 2003 respectively while contributing production on their albums. They have both gone on to become some of the biggest names in hip hop in the 2000s

9:

50 Cent (32 pence In English currency)

50 Cent: Curtis James Jackson III, a.k.a. 50 Cent, rose to fame after releasing Get Rich or Die Tryin' and The Massacre. The first album has gone 8 times platinum and sold more than 15 millions copies across the world. The second album has gone 5 times platinum and sold over 11 million copies across the world. Although, he has had a rocky start to his life and career, 50 Cent will always be counted as one of those who know their music. 

After releasing his album Guess Who's Back? in 2002, Jackson was discovered by rapper Eminem and signed to Interscope Records. With the help of Eminem and Dr. Dre, who produced his first major commercial successes, Jackson became one of the world's highest selling rappers. In 2003, he founded the record label G-Unit Records, which signed several successful rappers such as Young Buck, Lloyd Banks, and Tony Yayo. 50 Cent was ranked as the 6th best artist of the 2000-2009 decade by Billboard magazine. The magazine also ranked him as the 4th Top male artist and as the 3rd Top rapper behind Eminem and Nelly   Jackson has engaged in feuds with other rappers including Ja Rule, Fat Joe, Jadakiss, Cam'ron, Rick Ross, and former G-Unit members The Game and Young Buck

8:

Llcool j

Becoming the first artist ever signed to Def Jam, LL Cool J has held down the Hip Hop scene for 20 years now.  Releasing 11 gold and platinum albums, no other artist has been more consistent.  His landmark album "Mama Said Knock You Out" changed LL's persona and unleashed a rage in his rhymes that would continue for the next ten years.  

Becoming an elder statesman for Hip Hop, LL cut out the profanity from his lyrics, a request his grandmother made before she died.  LL has endured many battles, most commonly with Kool Moe Dee.  As LL has proved, though he may never be beat in a battle, there is always room for the ladies.

7:

Shaun Carter (Jay-Z)

Better known by his stage name Jay-Z, is an American rapper and businessman. He is one of the most financially successful hip hop artists and entrepreneurs in America having had a net worth of over $450 million in 2010. He has sold approximately 50 million albums worldwide,  while receiving ten Grammy Awards for his musical work, and numerous additional nominations.

Jay-Z co-owns The 40/40 Club, is part-owner of the NBA's New Jersey Nets and is also the creator of the clothing line Rocawear. He is the former CEO of Def Jam Recordings, one of the three founders of Roc-A-Fella Records, and the founder of Roc Nation. As an artist, he holds the record for most number one albums by a solo artist on the Billboard 200. Jay-Z also has had four number ones on the Billboard Hot 100, one as lead artist.

 He released his debut album Reasonable Doubt in the mid-90’s, and has since been nearly untouchable. It seems like everything Jay-Z touches sells, whether it be his albums or even his own clothing line. He has released one classic in Reasonable Doubt, and another possible one in The Blueprint. Most of his other albums are good aswell, with just a few exceptions that don’t even deserve to get mentioned in this. In 2003, Jay-Z supposedly ended his saga in rap with The Black Album, a hugely successful CD that bared not one, not two, but six chart topping singles. Sounds like a pretty good way to end a career. has been the most consistently excellent MC in the game, and it seems like he's at his apex every year. He is one of only a handful of MCs whose flow is so potent that his tongue can effortlessly glide over any track and still destroy a verse with line-for-line firepower.

Jay-Z will always be remembered as one of the icons of rap.

6:

Ice cube

He began his career as a member of C.I.A and later joined the rap group N.W.A. After leaving N.W.A in 1989, he built a successful solo career in music, and also as a writer, director, actor and producer in cinema. 

Ice Cube-  One of the founding fathers of Gangsta Rap, and part of one of the most influential rap groups of all-time.  NWA were the leaders of the Gangsta Rap movement and West Coast rap in the late 80′s.  Prior to the rise of NWA, the West Coast was never really respected in the rap game.  These guys gave real credibility to the “Left Coast.”  Ice Cube was the leader of the group.  Cube, was the lead rapper, and wrote the majority of the songs.  He even wrote the Eazy-E classic track “Boyz N Tha Hood.”  NWA never recovered after Cube departed.  Cube went on to be one of the most successful solo acts and released 9 solo records.  Cube would still land top five for his solo work in the early 90s. Jetting to New York after helping to define the West Coast sound, he got with the Bomb Squad and mixed the personal with the political in larger doses than had ever been witnessed in rap. Amerikka’s Most Wanted and Death Certificate are so devastating because Cube delivers his hood tales as his experience. Not saying, Although his last 5 albums were pretty horrible, his earlier work is not to be ignored!

5:

Nasir Jones

Nas burst onto the hip-hop scene in 1994 with perhaps the greatest rap album of all time 'illmatic.' Although only just over half an hour long, the raw and intelligent street poetry combined with the subtle yet vibrant production from some of New York's best producers' has left the album for ever engraved on the memories of hip-hop fans. Since then Nas career may have fluctuated somewhat, with subsequent albums not living up to his debut, but it is safe to say that since the turn of the millenium Nas has consolidated his position at the top of the hip-hop pyramid and as one of the greatest rappers of all time

Nas is the poet of true age, holding back nothing and rapping about everything. Even in a controversial battle against Jay-Z, he rose victorious overall. Nas needs no more introductions; he is one of the biggest contributors to modern-day hip-hop and a trademark rapper of the century, and that’s with one album alone.

He has great flows, rhymes, and the best lyrics I've ever consistantly heard from an artist. They are genuinely poetic and thought provoking, yet you can always understand him and the thoughts he's trying to convey. He has better versatality than any other rapper I've seen, and can use his raps to embody any type of emotion or thought.

4:

Eminem

Eminem is one of the most original rappers I've ever seen . He has the best vocal skills and quickness I've ever seen in a rapper, great rhymes, freestyling skills, charisma,, and definently uses emotion to fuel his lyrics

Marshall Bruce Mathers III (born October 17, 1972), better known by his stage name Eminem, is an American rapper, record producer, and actor. Eminem quickly gained popularity in 1999 with his major-label debut album, The Slim Shady LP, which won a Grammy Award for Best Rap Album. The following album, The Marshall Mathers LP, became the fastest-selling solo album in United States history. It brought Eminem increased popularity, including his own record label, Shady Records, and brought his group project, D12, to mainstream recognition.

He was spotted by rapper/producer Dr. Dre, who turned the Detroit native into a star. Eminems first appeared on the mainstream rap scene with the hit single My Name Is and was instantly turned into a star. His first major release, The Slim Shady LP is one of the most successful rap albums in recent history, but was topped by his own 2nd album, The Marshall Mathers LP. Eminem has totally changed his style over to appeal to an even wider audience. But rap fans simply can’t forget his golden days when he was at the top of the rap game.

He's one of the few rappers around today that makes songs that are not about money and parties and are still sucessful with the mainstream

3:

Notorious B.I.G

Even with only two albums released before his sudden death, he is noted to be one of the most influential rappers in history.

Christopher Wallace, a.k.a. Biggie Smalls He was raised in the poor Brooklyn neighborhood of Bedford-Stuyvesant as the son of a preschool teacher. Dropping out of high school at the age of seventeen

When Wallace released his debut album Ready to Die in 1994, he became a central figure in the East Coast hip-hop scene and increased New York's visibility at a time when West Coast artists were more common in the mainstream.The following year, Wallace led his childhood friends to chart success through his protégé group, Junior M.A.F.I.A.. While recording his second album, Wallace was heavily involved in the East Coast/West Coast hip-hop feud, dominating the scene at the time.

On March 9, 1997, Wallace was killed by an unknown assailant in a drive-by shooting in Los Angeles.

When you came up on stage and mess with him, he belts out poisonous single-line verses that would put Luda to shame. He would beat it out as if he wrote it before you even met, attaching simple words into a complex and witty verse no human can come up with in an hour, let alone in spur of the moment. For sure, Biggie left an indelible mark on the game. But is he really deserving of the title Greatest of All-Time? The answer is a no. Life After Death was a good album but it’s not the classic that everyone makes it out to be. Clearly, Diddy was already starting to corrupt Biggie’s gritty sound with chart-friendly R&B hooks, and this would’ve continued if Biggie had been fortunate enough to survive that shooting. Biggie brought such a deep level of cinematic detail to his rhymes that you couldn’t help but become hypnotized. That said, he was also more willing than any other MC of his era to kick party rhymes to the masses. Diddy might not have invented the remix, but in the form of Biggie Smalls, he invented the million-selling hardcore rap crossover

2:

RAKIM

You might suprisesd and think whats Rakim doing in second place surely the battle was between Tupac and Biggie. Wrong guys..Rakim is widely regarded as one of the most influential and most skilled mc's of all time due to his exceptional flow and complex lyrical craftsmanship. Eric B. & Rakim's classic album Paid In Full was named the greatest hip hop album of all time by MTV.

In addition to his career as a rap artist, he is a writer, and poet. Rakim's rapping, which pioneered the use of internal rhymes in hip hop, set a higher standard of lyricism in the genre and served as a template for future rappers. Rakim began his career as a emcee for part of one of the most important rap duos of the golden age hip hop era: Eric B. & Rakim.

People might say Tupac was the rapper that turned the whole game around,which is true to a certain extent. But while Pac made some changes to rap, Rakim revolutionized the game. He took hip-hop to another level.. Paid In Full. The album that changed it all. This album was 5-10 years ahead of its time when it dropped late in the 80’s. Although Rakim hasn’t gotten nearly as much respect as he deserves from the average rap fans, people who truly know the game realize what Rakim did for it. This guy wasn’t just years ahead of his time, he was light years ahead of it. He made the advanced lyrical genre of music we all know and love what it is currently, only without that J-Kwon and Chingy crap. He has been one of the most influential people in all kinds of music in recent history, and although most rap fans might state that Pac is untouchable on the list of the greatest, you just make sure to tell them what you’ve learned today. Rakim is hands down the greatest rhymer to ever touch the mic.

Rakim’s smooth delivery and lyrics made him one of the founders of the Hip-Hop genre.  He was a pioneer and took MCs to another level.  Social consciousness and the ability to rock the mic make him a Legend amongst Legends.  Although he has always been more of an underground artist, rappers still site him as one of the most influential rap artists of all-time.  Kool Mo Dee, MTV and Vibe Magazine list him as the greatest Rapper of All-Time.

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Tupac

Tupac Amaru Shakur (June 16, 1971 – September 13, 1996), known by his stage names 2Pac and Makaveli, was an American rapper. Shakur has sold over 75 million albums worldwide, making him one of the best-selling music artists in the world. In the United States alone he has sold 37.5 million records. Rolling Stone Magazine named him the 86th Greatest Artist of All Time

In September 1996, Shakur was shot four times in the Las Vegas. He was taken to the University Medical Center, where he died of respiratory failure and cardiac arrest

More albums have been released and gone platinum after his death, than when he was alive. Through his words, you can hear his spirit and his passion for both his people and the direction they were headed. People of all colors respond to his music becomes he teaches hope.

Tupac gave the west coast the respect that it still has today. He gave rap the status that it has today; he was one of the main reasons that it became such a huge industry. His rhymes weren’t just about jewelry and women, they touched on nearly all objects from teen pregnancy to just having love for your mama.

He is the biggest icon in rap history. He is the epitome of all rap artists. He is the most widely respected rapper, possibly even musician, in the last 20 years. And yes, I am talking about Tupac Shakur. Tupac was simply phenomenal; there was no other rapper who could even come close to releasing the amount of brilliant work this man did. Although his life was tragically cut short, Pac is widely considered the best ever in his profession. He is still selling albums even after his demise, and even has whole new albums with his name on them being sold. This is just simply unheard of, nobody could still have new material being released and sold over 5 years after his or her death. Nobody except Tupac. Pac wasn’t just another rapper; he was at a whole different level than other MCs. Representing California to the fullest over the course of his life

Most rappers nowadays would be heard saying that 2Pac has had a big influence in their careers, eve n if he has been viewed as a public menace. Whether you believe in the Man or the Myth, Tupac’s status has gone beyond iconic to legendary

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