Chesstown King's Reviews and Thoughts

So i know y'all have been waiting for my Rap Mount Rushmore for a while....So im going to give you my picks and explain why I picked them. Of course you're free to disagree, but know this....these are my 4 rappers that I like and feel deserve these spots. There is no order but lets get into it..... Spot #1- Jay-z  Believe it or not, Jay is the 1st rapper that came to my mind. I thought about maybe giving this spot to The Notorious B.I.G. but Biggie just doesn't have that much material. All 4 of the rappers i picked have lots of albums. Ok back to Jay-z. Jigga has been so successful and so consistent for the most part. Its just hard to imagine the rap game without Shawn Carter. For one his albums are all pretty good. Jay can make any type of song; from club bangers, to introspective songs, to love songs. Personally Jay has been one of the reasons I started to like rap a lot. So he has surely earned his spot on my Mt. Rushmore of Rap. I feel Jay's best albums are

As you know i gave Eminem the album of the year last year, but truth be told he was tied with Pusha T. I gave both albums a 98/100. which is a tie. This happened in 2011 also with Game's Red Album and Common's The Dreamer/The Believer. Its ironic that those 2 albums i only had at 94...which is good but, lots of 2013 rap albums were rated higher than that,(J.Cole Born Sinner, Kanye West, Yeeuzus, Run the Jewels, Jay-z Magna Carta Holy Grail, and Drake Nothing Was the Same.) What does this mean? I think it means rap is recovering from an obvious recession in 2011 and yes even parts of 2012. I gave Kendrick Lamar a 99/100 which is borderline masterpiece. I think any album 97 and above is a classic. Nas came in 2nd at 97 with Life is Good. But anyways back to 2013. I hadnt really seen SO MANY good rap albums since 2010....which had the Masterpiece Kanye West's My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy, which i went back and forth with the rating, but finally decided on a 100/100.