"open up voting for you, our loyal and crude readers, to decide who the greatest rapper alive is. "

In other words, vote or stfu and keep it moving.

That is why we are voting, to show the mass opinion of the people

FUCK! I was wrong, it is a popularity contest. The article first said that current and former emcees would be judging this. I didn't know every nigga on the face of the Earth could vote. I hope this poll is just for Def Sounds sake and not the final result.

O aight never mind it is just for DS.

ya its onlly a persons opinion, but the voting chooses the best, so whoever is at the top, thats who the 'people' (us)chose. u may not agree agree who gonna be the 'best' but tha majority will
o ya u kno is JIGGAAAAAA, MY NIGGAAA

1ST AND FOREMOST... SOULJA BOY IN THE TUPAC BRACKET??? WOW... YOU MIGHT AS WELL CANCEL THIS SHIT NOW

FLO-RIDA TOO??? WTF WERE YA'LL THINKIN OR WAS THIS JUST SOME SHIT YALL THREW TOGETHER TO GET SOME WEB HITS???

Is LL not in this bracket?

who gives a fuck about the mass opinion of the people. thats whats wrong with hip hop now. too many nigga's wait to see what the masses say and align their opinion with the masses. they do this cause they are scare of being rediculed. fuck what the masses think.

your right actually plus we all really know that its Jay-z N Nas so whats the point

If Nas, who has THE rap album of 2008 (AND 06!!!!), loses in the first round to Joe Budden - the way this is going - I'm going to:

JUMP OFF A ROOF.

NOT WORKING FOR ME

so how the fuck we vote??

the only one dat got me me is the last.....jim jones and diddy....ballin won:O

I must say i disagree with Juelz beating Cam, dont get me wrong i like Santana and Cam, i like the whole dipset fam but a lot of people seem to for get that Cam taught Juelz how to rap and that is why today his is a good as he is.

YALL NIGGAZ IS DICKHEADS FOR SAYN THEY ONLY PUT RAPPERS RELEVANT TO THIS TIME IN THE GAME...THATS BULLSHYT CUZ LL NOT ON THERE ALONG WITH RAKIM AND KRS BUT THEY GOT LAUREN HILL ON THERE.."AND THE BITCH PUT OUT A CD THAT AINT HAVE NO BEAT" LOL...BUT FUCKN SOULJA BOY AND PLIES ON THIS SHYT...EVEN LIL FUCKN BOOSIE ON THIS SHYT BUT STYLES.P NOT ON HERE AND HE BEEN IN THE GAME FORMORE THAN A DECADE...THIS IS BULLSHYT AND I CANT WAIT TO C HOV B DECLARED AS THE BEST AS HE SHOULD

@bk bullshit, ya statement is right on point. there are things that KRS said back in the 80's that are very relevent to todays times. what that tells me is he was ahead of the time, unlike most of that bullshit bracket. stop the violence, you must learn, and self distruction are just a few KRS songs that address the times we live in now. and also loves gonna get ya, when he broke down the dangers of living fast. so someone tell me how is KRS not relevent, and i dont want no bullshit answer. good shit Bk.

yea idc how old rakim is, he was the first to make his lyrics seem so ez

"I can take a phrase that's rarely heard/Flip it/Now it's a daily word."

That's what every writer aspires to. It's the flyest shit I've ever heard

what do you expect
vibe made it

wrd this is Vibe. wtf are they? garbage ass magazine.

Co-Sign, where the fuck is Dre???

IAmMoney has a point. you have a tournament that is missin the two greatest mc's ever KRS and Rakim Allah. Vibe is trippin. this whole shit is bogus. i believe i read someone type they were able to vote more than once. that take away from the legitimacy of this bullshit.

I agree soulja boy is not a rapper.He is dancer.

LOL at Dan the Man actin like he said that shit, you just copied and pasted chris rock's exact words lol, nigga i ain't stupid.

And i think the reason they don't got some of the golden era guys like rakim and krs is because neither of them are still heavy in the game. When was the last time they put out a solid album??

But, with that said i think its an absolute atrocity that Styles P was left off that list, and the seeding for everyone that made the list is all fucked up too, so vibe did fuck up

how is joe budden seeded lower than fat joe and flo rida in the tupac bracket?!

its for tha best Relavant rappers every rapper on that chart has released music that has got on tha billboard or has been in some sort of major drama with in tha last few years or so......rakim i havnt hurd shit from really......and krs one is releasing shit still but he is much more a public speaker now an shit like that then he is doin rap albums.......so i mean i think tha list is accurate for relavence for now........and to dude who complainin y they aint put dre on there............Y tha fuck would u want Dre on here........he has his albums ghost writtin.........thats as stupid as havin diddy as a potential choice........dude has had and admited to using ghost writers for any big song he's had come out.......not taking away from his performance but its not his work.....thats y i dont listen to R&B u got 6 writers for like 39 different singers

In my Elite 8 I got

Jay-Z vs. Lupe Fiasco
ScarFace vs. Ludacris
Eminem vs. Nas
Andre 3000 vs. The Game

Each one of them is a tough call but in my Final four I got

Lupe Fiasco vs. Ludacris
Eminem vs. The GAME

After two closely faught battles the Finals look like this

Lupe Fiasco vs. Eminem

And The Winner IS!!!

Lupe Fiasco... The Most talented Lyricist of this time!!!

KRS-One released maximum strength and adventures in emceein this year already (both are amazing) and rakim also released an album with a few new tracks and some older classics

YOUR JOKING RIGHT?

loso is behind cassidy? WTF

how is there gonna be soulja boy but no LL?

I think some of you are getting blanks b/c your computer is slow, my shit is fine.

yea how do we vote??? all i see are blank boxes aswell

My computer is good as new. I see everything.

mine only works in mozilla firefox not in internet explorer

my screens are blank too but there you go

I'm workin on it...its some shit with Internet Explorer...if you have Firefox it works fine

Jokesta I think there is an unlimited amount of voting. I just voted, logged off, came back, and voted again. That's gonna fuck up the poll with stans going nuts.

yeah this poll site sucks, fuck it--we'll hold off on this until we make our own polling mod. Till then, I'm gonna vote for foxy a million times.

^^^Lmao nigguhs is stupid, I can't See the Joint yet, i'll just wait till that gets handled...but a poll on defsounds should be intresting, even though theres alot of idiots.

LMFAO!

LOL..this is the comment of the night so far.

Na i got IE and its jus nothin n the white boxes

my bad you're right. i was focused on the game and hit Safari instead of IE

ROFL.

Co-sign

same thing I was thinking....smh

Cam >>>>>>>.. Juelz

Co-sign

how you guys finding out the poll results so far....

Exactly niggas lost their damn minds thinking Juelz is better than Cam. I told yall this would turn into a popularity contest.

Werd since when the fuck was Juelz better than Cam?

Crazed...lol... after you vote you click results...

Na im jus not votin 4

"yung flossy floss, yung flashy flash, santana aka yung splashy splash, and i let them things go 4 that cashy cash

my fault wrong 1

Cam aight right now. But Juelz is ass right now

So you're voting for "Flier than an ostrich"?

hard choices..but gotta go with

lauryn(the best female rapper out there
cam(based on whole career)
fab(never really liked fab)
missy(female legend in the game..or soon to be)
lupe(spits RAW, but yeah tribe is fuckin sick as hell)
mos(that shit was kinda hard)
kanye..foxy is a deaf hoe!