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Rizoh over at the Rapup.com has put together one of the most important lists for this year. The 100 Hip-Hop heads you must follow on Twitter:
50 Hip-Hop Artists (MCs, Producers, DJs) to Follow on Twitter
1. Notorious B.I.G. – He used to read Word Up Magazine
2. MC Hammer – Owner of the world’s largest collection of parachute pants
3. ?uestlove – Half-man, half-funkybeard drummer
4. Amanda Diva – Spandex-wearing soul-rappah
5. Noreaga – Good MC, bad reggaeton dancer
6. Jay Electronica – Follow him now or he’ll melt your brain in your sleep!
7. Eli Porter – Winner of the greatest freestyle battle ever
8. Sickamore – Famous hip-hop DJ, also addicted to burger
9. Countbass D – One of the illest producers on the mic
10. Q-Tip – Nasal-voiced ATCQ frontman
11. DJ Green Lantern – The Evil Greenius
12. Wale – First rapper from the underwater
13. MC Lyte – GFOAT
14. Just Blaze – The Megatron Don of beatsmithing
15. Donny Goines – If you don’t know his name he’s not working hard enough
16. Charles Hamilton – The reason Brooklyn tourism hit an all-time high in 2008
17. Black Milk – Detroit’s newest, funkiest, nastiest, illest, producer
18. A-Trak – Only dates chicks with mile-long acrylic nails
19. DJ Semtex – The Explosive One!
20. Joe Budden – The Internet’s favorite rapper
21. DJ Enuff – Loves music, hates music business
22. Pacific Division – Victims of The Grown Kid Syndrome
23. Double-O (Kidz in the Hall) – Cave Spelunker and Tectonic Plate explorer
24. Naledge (Kidz in the Hall) – Chicago makes smart rappers too, you know
25. Kid Sister – Feisty femme fatale with a penchant for fancy fingertips
26. Mick Boogie – Globe-trotting hip-hop DJ
27. Clinton Sparks – Get Familiar!
28. Bavu Blakes – It’s Bah-VOO
29. Illmind – Producer guy from Jersey
30. Rhymefest – Never met a beat he couldn’t pummel into submission
31. Khrysis – Producer guy from North Kakalaka
32. Nina B – BK femcee
33. Skyzoo – Premier thinks he’s nice, so he must be
34. 6th Sense – Heavy Obama supporter
35. Yak Ballz – Hip-hop’s first Scifentologist
36. Murs – Touring machine
37. Mickey Factz – Bespectacled rapper from Bronx, NY and big fan of Mortal Kombat
38. Von Pea – Dictionary-toting MC from Brooklynati
39. Don Cannon – Only slightly less influential than Jimmy Iovine
40. Cashless – Deadly on the 1’s & 2’s
41. Jean Grae – Better than your favorite female rapper
42. Oddisee – Producer guy who happens to be sick on any tempo
43. Chino XL – Deadly with the pen
44. B-Real – The Hip-Hop Chuck Norris
45. Soulbrotha – Had to write a song about Twitter to make this list
46. Rukus – Deadly on the mic
47. Phonte – Part time Little Brother MC, part time sanga
48. Big Pooh – That other guy in Little Brother
49. John Brown – Undisputed king of Burbology
50. Shaq – Sometime rapper, sometime baller. Always quotatious
Check out the full 100 here.
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