I mean for the pure enjoyment

Wayne?
Lil B?

MF DOOM and Mac Miller gotta be up there

Chimp1

Kodak Spice

professional yapper

Wayne & Nas

Wayne

After this current run Nas for sure. Young thug and lil b

Eminem. Shocked he hasn’t dropped an album in so long cause it’s been clear he just loves doing it

Common and Blu

eminem

That avy is disarming to say the least

MF DOOM, the man was deeply in love with syllables, felt like he was coming at Hip-Hop with an 80s-style approach where MCs would boast about having rhymes for days, I don't think there's better evidence for it than just how many of his verses are a series of unrelated two-bar schemes with inventive turns of phrase, he loved rapping for rapping's sake and I don't mean that in a bad way one bit

Mainstream wise Wayne and it's not even close

honestly, Eminem

J Cole is definitely in the conversation

There's some good names mentioned so far.

So I'll just add Lupe. Before they fell out, Lupe and Royce were having very layered opinions on rapping on their podcast.

And Lupe himself is a very skilled lyricist and he even taught a course at MIT about rapping.

This
He literally raps about rapping

clearly Ye he been forcing us to listen to his s***ty raps for a decade now

Rent free...

i think modern ye likes hearing himself talk moreso than rapping

All the “Death to Mumble Rap” dudes.