X2. Saul Williams is awesome.
My personal favorites are Blue Scholars, Common Market, and Macklemore. Humble, talented, honest.
Blue Scholars are great, i love The Inkwell.
personally i think the REALEST rapper is MF Grimm. he got shot 13 times in an assassination attempt among a whole bunch of other bullshit and hes now crippled below the waist, STILL droppin albums. On top of that, he definitely knows what hes talkin about when he actually does make a song regarding drugs or somethin of that caliber, he goes into DETAIL. like he talks about very specific methods of smuggling, usage etc. whereas other rappers just claim to have sold. This shows that the other rappers, IF THEY DID SLING, were small time except save a few select. MF grimm straight up shows his knowledge of the game in a far more detailed manner, which leaves no doubt he knows what the **** is up. shit i could ask any of my straightedge friends who hang out with me and they could probably display as much knowledge about drugs as main stream rappers such as gucci and jeezy.
MF grimm gets Realest rapper award in my opinion (check out Fame if you haven't heard it by him).
runner up i give to Immortal Technique (my favorite rapper) just for talking about shit people can RELATE TO. hes not talking about his car or his ice, hes talking about CURRENT events. its a whole different kind of real, but i think it still gets him 2nd place.
Props to a lot of other rappers that definitely deserve to be on here, BIG and Pac of course, C-murder doin time, a LOT of underground Emcee (may you all make it big).
seriously though, anyone listening to the rappers in the poll sayin they are "real" are just ****in dumb.