| White rappers are here to stay so get used to it. Like | | | | No talk of the greatest rappers alive, let alone the |
| early rock and roll, hip-hop music has gone beyond | | | | greatest white rappers, can gloss over the influence |
| being a solely black genre and has been touched upon | | | | and success of Eminem. The amount of respect |
| by various ethnicities and peoples. The beauty of | | | | rappers have today for Eminem is testament to his |
| hip-hop is how it can transcend race and class. Here | | | | mic skills and how humble he is about how easy |
| are some of the top three white rappers working | | | | mutli-rhymed schemed rapping, battling and fluid rhyme |
| today. | | | | flow come for him. Eminem is a great example of a |
| Aesop Rock | | | | guy who worked hard to be where he is, yet makes it |
| Aesop is a controversial figure in rap not only because | | | | seem so easy. There will never be another like |
| he is white but because his lyrics are so odd. To most | | | | Eminem and his story will be one for the music history |
| people his lyric seem like a gobbled mess but if you | | | | books. |
| really sit down and dissect them you can connect the | | | | The Streets |
| pieces and see where Aesop’s though process is | | | | Hailing from the UK, The Streets aka Mike Skinner |
| going. Aesop raps about more than simple materialistic | | | | was one of the early leaders in the UK grime rap |
| things like these mustang wheels; his most popular | | | | scene, bringing visceral, immediate storytelling and |
| album "Labor Day" was a record-length treatise on the | | | | garage, dancehall and hip hop styled beats to the |
| plight of the working class. Aesop has a distinct | | | | mainstream. Skinner is one of the best rap storytellers, |
| guttural rapping style which, when combined with his | | | | in the US or the UK, and has been able to connect |
| imaginative and often very clever rhyming, makes him | | | | with people from across the pond with his unique |
| one of the most talented white rappers in the scene. | | | | delivery and powerful tales. With success Skinner |
| Aesop is also slowly coming into his own as a | | | | floundered a bit with his follow up records but seems |
| producer as well. | | | | to have found peace with his newfound fame. It will be |
| Eminem | | | | interesting to see where he goes next. |