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The greatest living rapper is prolly gonna be Nas imo, on the basis Illmatic has not been bettered since it was released. Kool Moe Dee is probably close behind.
Based on current output, obviously I like Sage Francis: but I would say the most talented rapper out right now is Dizzee Rascal.
Maybe its because the American Dream has always seemed a foriegn thing to me... but a lot of mainstream rap that is about wealth, power, cars, pretending to be a drug baron etc - while fine as entertainment - doesnt quite cut it for me.
Dizzee's lyrics - about petty crime, shit drugs, depression and inner city blight, crap housing estates, casual sex and poitntless violence, and boiling a kettle for a bath... it is more realistic to me than anyone else out there at the moment. He is representative of a whole generation that most people dont want to acknowledge. His stuff has a kind of frenzy about it: half arrogance and half desperation, a frantic energy that has no real outlet other than anti-social and self destructive behaviour.
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The Gospel of Thomas
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