July 2012
40 posts
That I have ever seen perform, in alphabetical order. With regards to actual rapping ability, not theatrics or fireworks or juggling or swallowing swords or whatever.
Aceyalone
Andre 3000
Big Boi
Big Daddy Kane
Busta Rhymes
David Banner
Devin The Dude
Ghostface Killah
Mikah 9
Pharoahe Monch
Redman
Wise Intelligent
*Totally subject to change on account of all of the rappers that I am forgetting.
Best rap show I ever saw was a free Big Daddy Kane performance that I stumbled on entirely by accident. Ever since then, I’ve had trouble getting myself to actuallypayfor what always seem to be inferior performances.
(I was not disappointed the time I paid to see Devin, though.)
I wrote a review of Dave Duncan’s sci-fi novel Wildcatter for Bookgasm.
At one point, I use the phrase “heteronormative gender-bender,” which I had not expected to come across in my brain.