More have Probabaly quoted big . Jay has quoted big a ridiculous amount of times himself

Yeah ja up there but he was heavily influenced by dmx to lmao

I was thinking more about mixing R&B with hip hop but of course he was influenced by DMX, he took his style and made it his own

Can’t argue with that

All GOATS

Na i feel you nelly and ja definitely influenced all these singing rap niggas

Honestly I’d probably put Ja and 50 above Pac in terms of the influence felt today, but then again I might put Keef above Pac as well because of all the dissing of dead opps. I’d have to sit down and really think about this lol

But f***.. Pac might be the reason for so many amazing diss records, who knows

Yeah you can even go beyond the diss tracks and listen to songs like keep your head up, brendas got a baby…i can picture kanye making s*** like that in 04 or kendrick making s*** like that for TPAB …

Eminem is nore influential than Jay Z probably.

Just make it a top 5 and throw in Em lmao

It's a bad influence but still an influence.

Em spawned his own subculture

Besides Juice, Kendrick and Cole.. who has he influenced in todays generation?

I love Eminem but I don’t think his influence is felt as much as you’d like to think.

Half of underground hip-hop from 2000 on

Agreed, I'd add 50 cent to the list of most influential rappers too.

Hard to skip him tbh.

Maybe battle rap yeah.. I guess I’m thinking mainstream. He’s definitely in the top 10 for sure, just not top 4 lol

I would put Chief Keef, Juicy J, Rakim or Kool Keith before Eminem

came in expecting to hate but this is the right list

only person arguable is Jay but its Jay so letting it rock

Dude he had a whole generation of guys dying their hair blonde

At his peak he was bigger than all this guys

Why are you people so narrow minded? He influenced every white rapper ever lmao.

And influential doesn’t just refer to having other rappers copy you when you’re talking about the entire genre of hip hop

He was one of the rappers who brought rap tot he mainstream.

I don’t even f***in like Eminem but if you weren’t old enough to be around for his peak then you can’t speak on it

“But I'm so cultivating, everybody replicate me, face facts
Dreadlocks, face tats, I'm the apex
I made the culture, what up, twin? They relate back”

Just a reminder Wayne is the father of every rapper today

eminem is a special case because maybe he didn’t influence hip hop today directly he was a source of inspiration for tyler, drake, and a few others but he wasn’t hugely responsible for them. there are entire swaths of people tho that wouldn’t listen to hip hop at all without him. like half the members of BTS said they wouldn’t make music period if it wasn’t for Em and they’re from korea so he’s influential in that sense

really idk if rap would be the dominant genre without em he was a rising tide that lifted the likes of 50, wayne, jay, drake, etc even tho they’re all incredible artists in their own right and plain just better aside from 50. hip hop wouldn’t be as big as it is without him

Kendrick is way more of a Wayne baby.

That's actually pretty respectable - it's hard to pick just 4 though, would've added DOOM or 3 stacks somewhere