There's a God on the Mic

On the 1987 album, How Ya Like Me Now, rapper Kool Mo Dee created the "hip-hop report card," separating the premier MCs from their overrated counterparts. Now, Kool Mo Dee has compiled the definitive list of the fifty greatest MCs of all time, scoring them in seventeen different categories, ranging from lyricism, vocabulary, and freestyling ability, to longevity, body of work, and social impact. Each artist is given a score from 1 to 100 in each category, as well as an explanation of how this rating was determines. Using over twenty years of experience in rap music, Kool Mo Dee breaks down the MCs from past to present with a clear understanding of the different job requirements from each era. From classics like Kurtis Blow and Grandmaster Caz to new school artists like Jay-Z and Snoop Dogg, from mainstream hip-hop stars to underground phenoms, here are the true gods of the mic.