Over hyped rappers

 MALE OVER HYPED RAPPERS

1)Lil Wayne: Regardless of what you may think, Lil Wayne is all hype. People are now speaking of Lil Wayne as a “great” rapper, but the truth is, great rappers have a catalog with classic material and Lil Wayne has yet to produce a classic album. I will give Lil Wayne his props for being the hardest working man in all of Hip-Hop, you can’t turn on the radio without hearing one of his records, but the hype around his music is simply not justifiable. Making dope mixtapes does not mean as much as composing a great album, and before we can call him great he has to be able to construct an album that we can talk about in the same breath as “Illmatic”, “Ready to Die”, “Reasonable Doubt” and “The Low End Theory” . I pose the question, what makes this man so great beside punch-lines? Lil Wayne has not earned his stripes to be considered great, and although fans anticipate his releases, many of them are often disappointed in the final output. Lil Wayne is overrated!

2)Memphis Bleek: Jay-Z told everyone on “Hard Knock Life” that Bleek was going to be a good rapper, a new and improved Jay-Z….weren’t we all fooled. For the average fan every time Memphis Bleek released an album we all hoped it was going to be decent because you clearly wanted to root for him, but Bleek could just never stand on the pedestal that Jay-Z put him on. His one hit record (Is That Your Chick) was overshadow by the appearance of Jay-Z, and there just isn’t much growth since his debut album. Four albums in and nothing to show for it. We can always look on the bright side, he’s still just one hit away.

FEMALE OVER HYPED RAPPERS.

 Nicki Minaj &/Vs Lil'Kim: The mainstream debut of Lil Wayne's protegee Nicki Minaj brings the perennial question to the forefront of hip-hop consciousness once again: what is the role of women in the rap game? While Minaj is tearing up the airwaves, appearing on everything from Mariah Carey's Up Out My Face to Ludacris's My Chick Bad, the self-described "Harajuku Barbie" has captured the imagination of a generation that hasn't seen a dominant, prolific female rapper since the heyday of Lil Kim and Foxy Brown.
Minaj may be hyped as the latest leading lady of rap but, as hip hop has become more mainstream, the shift in expectations of women has led to a new reality: a successful female artist must not only be talented, but also able to titillate the gaze of an assumed male viewer. Earlier MCs such as MC Lyte, Queen Latifah, Monie Love, Queen Pen, Da Brat, and Roxane Shante had far more options for onscreen representation, often appearing in the types of clothes their male contemporaries were wearing.

I've been a fan of rap since I was young, and throughout the years I've noticed that female rappers are very hard to come by. The ones that are popular/famous are talentless. Examples are Lil Kim, Nicki Minaj, Trina, Foxy Brown, and lets not forget Jackie O. I will admit at one point I was a fan of FOxy Brown, but the other girls are just over hyped their success is based more on whose ass is fatter. Where did the real female mc's go? I can only name a few that I thought were really talented and deserved their success. Lauryn Hill, MC Lyte, Queen Latifah, Missy (earlier years), and Left Eye.