Women of Reddit, who’s your favorite hip-hop/rap group or artist based on lyrics alone?

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1. Doja Cat

2. Lauryn Hill

3. Ice Cube. Hands down.

4. Jcole

5. Eminem.

6. Watsky (artist) or Stupeflip (band).

7. Atmosphere or Brother Ali

8. A$AP Ferg

9. Tupac

10. Tupac and Eminem

11. Eminem, Fabri Fibra, Capital Bra, Ice Cube, D12 and Tupac.

12. Based purely on word play? Eminem.
    In terms of story-telling/lyrical content? Kendrick Lamar by far. “good kid, mA.A.d city” is a goddamn masterpiece.

13. Shoreline mafia 😂 and Eminem

14. Schaffer the Darklord

15. Digable Planets

16. Doja cat

17. Kevin Gates😏

18. NF and lil peep

19. A Tribe Called Quest

20. Self Esteem (UK singer/songwriter)

21. At the moment, Epik High.

22. Todrick

23. Kota the Friend and Malz Monday.

24. Fort Minor, for sure. He doesn’t have a whole lot of solo music, but everything he has is great and he’s a born storyteller

25. Kendrick Lamar and Sampa the Great

26. Missy Elliott

27. Outkast

28. Tupac

29. Mostly Eminem but also I really like Twizted and Rittz and Yelawolf and ICP

30. Complexity goes to Eminem, but Mac Miller holds my soul with his words.

31. Missy Elliot. Copy written so don’t copy me

32. Erykah badu* if she counts. Or cypress hill

33. Suicideboys and Night Lovell

34. Bruno Mars, Taylor Swift, Push Baby, Claire Rosinkraz

35. Tupac or Mac Miller

36. earth gang

37. Russ

38. J Cole is my all time favorite, but I’ve been listening to a lot of Smino and Mir Fontane as of late

39. TLC. Left Eye had some bars

40. Lil Wayne

41. MIA. Paper Planes is a great but she has alot of amazing songs all having powerful messages.

    Even the message behind Paper Planes is beautiful.

    She’s brilliant.

42. The lonely island. By default cause I don’t like rap its sooooooo boring