I got this list from yt. No clue if it's correct. Your thoughts.

Sugar Hill Gang
Grandmaster Flash
Afrika Bambaata
Slick Rick & Doug E Fresh
Eric B & Rakim
Rob Base & DJ EZ Rock
Public Enemy t
Cypress Hill
Snoop Dogg, Dr. Dre
A Tribe Called Quest
Wu-Tang Clan
KRS One
Nas
Gang Starr
Old Dirty Bastard
The Notorious BIG
Tupac
Busta Rhymes
Eminem
M.O.P
Pharaoh Monch
Terror Squad
Bone Thugs n’Harmony
Eminem & Dr Dre
Dr Dre
Busta Rhymes
Rick Ross
Jay Z
Kanye West

Thanks!

In reply to this comment by paul4dirt:
*promote !

Looks like I need to explore me some KRS-One. Any album suggestions?

love krs one.

I'm bout to hit you wit that tradional style of cold rockin
Givin options for head knockin non stoppin
Tip-toppin lyrics we droppin but styles can be forgotten
so we bring back the raw hip-hoppin
Just like the records and tapes you be coppin
Cop some breakdancin, boogie poppin, and lockin
Tic tockin, guaranteed to have you clockin
We only get better and only better we have gotten
This type of flow don't even think about stoppin
Beware, the length of the rhyme flow can be shockin
All music lovers in the place right now
That never understood the way that KRS got down
Yo I'm strictly about skills and dope lyrical coastin
Relying on talent, not marketing and promotion
If a dope lyrical flow is a must
You gots to go with a name you can quickly trust
I'm not sayin I'm number one, uhh I'm sorry, I lied
I'm number one, two, three, four and five
Stop wastin your money on marketing schemes
and pretty packages pushin dreams to the beams
A dope MC is a dope MC
With or witout a record deal, all can see
And that's who KRS be son
I'm not the run of mill, cause for the mill I don't run

Yes yes y'all, ya don't stop, KRS-One, rock on!
Yes yes y'all, ya don't stop, KRS-One, rock on!

Yeah, yeah
Everybody on the mic in the party sound alike
until I recite, in black and white what's right
Let me take flight, my style is TIGHT AN GOOD
TIGHT AN GOOD, come is it TIGHT AN GOOD
Old styles I pass dat, slow down on fast rap
All in yo' ass crack, old King go Blast dat
Conjure to ask dat, hyper type of flashback
I publish like ASCAP lyrics for hand clap
No past rappin, youth trackin, talent lackin
MC's more worried about their financial backin
Steady packin a gat as if something's gonna happen
But it doesn't, they wind up shootin they cousin, they buggin
I appear everywhere and nowhere at once
I know my style is bumpin, even though some people front
It's the God of rap, you heard of it
The one that rhymes toward the sky givin airplanes mad turbulence
In rap tournaments, I reign permanent
Don't you think by now the number one spot I'm not concerned with it
The course of rap I'm turnin it
Back to that good old fashioned way of getting cash money by earning it
No bogus hocus pocus, I bring back to focus
Skills if you notice my position is lotus
Now quote this, MC's are just hopeless
Thinkin record sales make them the dopest

The beat was sposed to drop right there
The beat was sposed to drop right there
The beat was sposed to drop right there
Yeah yeah yeah... uhh
I send this one out, to my right hand man
or mens, or womens, the whole crew
The real fam

We can count the dough or kick a flow
or chill out watchin videos
or actin really silly yo but really doe
all that can end...
Whether at the bar with superstars
or cruisin in the trooper car
I really don't care who you are
All I really need is a friend
Verse One: KRS-One
If we can't have trust then you can't hang with us
We respond to those who show respect with respect
We respond we connect on the same deck
same intellect, my man, never shifty, thinks quickly
If you can't understand, we boys we boys
We could stand on the corner with a hat sellin toys
It ain't about your Benz I hope it ain't about mine
my man, I be dissin in my freestyle rhyme
Gettin G's around the world, I can trust you with my girl
my man, we chillin at the jam, what's the plan?
I'm not a yes man and none of my friends are yes men
or women, I'm drivin, I see my peeps yo get in
Where you fit in? True friends are quick to sit
in the beginning of all trouble, and when your bankroll doubles
Fred Flintstone and Barney Rubble
Still I got my own space like Hubble

Cause don't nobody care about us, all they do is doubt us
Until we blow the spot then they all wanna crowd us
and wanna shout us, but you my man from way back
I just gots to say that, actin large I don't play that
But I can't say that, where I play at isn't fast-paced
A friend can acquire the taste to become two-faced
And that's a disgrace there ain't nothing you can say to us
When the kid you grew up with betrays your trust
When we used to ride the bus we had trust
Now we cash checks and drive Lex, and can't show respect to one of us
Yo the heads I hang with ain't tryin to just get
what they can get, sit quickly backstabbin the click
I roll thick, but only some are friends really
down to the end, my right hand men and women
Mutual support, from the beginning
Been in, exactly what I've been in

Back to back we attack corporate America
Gettin fees that amount to G's in every area
You my man I ain't gotta drag you along
You pull your own weight, yeah you definitely got it goin on
I don't see nothin wrong wit a little bumpin car system
thumpin, between the crew we always got sump'un
But if we had nuttin no frontin whatever
We'd still be crew you and me, me for you together
Word, fake people ain't worth a turd
They only want to be your friend because of what they overheard
I send this record to the well respected
Friends that I've collected, I hope I am what you expected
Yeah, so check it, so check it

Yeah, I think you're right.

In reply to this comment by SlipperyPete:
A great vid, but I'd like to keep the playlist strictly on the musical side of things.

In reply to this comment by MrFisk:
Should we allow this sort of stuff into your hip hop playlist?

http://www.videosift.com/video/KRS-One-vs-Sean-Hannity

A great vid, but I'd like to keep the playlist strictly on the musical side of things.

In reply to this comment by MrFisk:
Should we allow this sort of stuff into your hip hop playlist?

http://www.videosift.com/video/KRS-One-vs-Sean-Hannity

Should we allow this sort of stuff into your hip hop playlist?

http://www.videosift.com/video/KRS-One-vs-Sean-Hannity

Tags for this video have been changed from 'krs one, marley marl, hip hop' to 'krs one, marley marl, hip hop, east coast' - edited by MrFisk

Oh! Haha, my bad then.

In reply to this comment by SlipperyPete:
Hey - the list is actually managed by 4 or 5 of us; I haven't had a chance to go through it of late, but will be sure to check out anything and everything worthy =)

In reply to this comment by EndAll:
Hey. I saw that you put that KRS One tune on your 'Golden Era (and Inspired) Hip Hop' playlist, but I think you forgot to vote! Haha.

Hey. I saw that you put that KRS One tune on your 'Golden Era (and Inspired) Hip Hop' playlist, but I think you forgot to vote! Haha.