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I feel a lot of people on this forum turn their noses up to hip-hop and therefore are missing out on a lot of great music.

Therefore I have come up with a idea which will allow us to contrast and compare hip-hop artists whilst opening peoples eyes to MC's whom we may not all be familiar with. There'll be a mix of old and new MC's so many different styles are represented.

Basically 80 MC's randomly drawn to compete against one another, the winner of each tie (the one with most votes, you can only vote once per tie) advances to the next round in a straight knock-out formula.

It's not just a case of voting, it's a case of trying to persuade others that your favoured MC is indeed better than the other.

The first random tie will take place tomorrow.

Here's the list of MC's


J.Cole
Jay Electronica
Jay-Z
Kanye West
Nas
Notorious BIG
2Pac
Kendrick Lemar
Ab-Soul
El-P
Killer Mike
Aesop Rock
Big Pun
Fat Joe
Big L
Tyler the Creator
Big KRIT
Big Boi
Andre 3000
Talib Kweli
Mos Def
Black Thought
Ice Cube
Common
Del The Funkee Homesapian
Dr Dre
MF Doom
Masta Ace
Slick Rick
AZ
Busta Rhymes
TI
Big Shug
Rakim
Blu
Danny Brown
Jean Grae
Lil Kim
Mac Dre
Grandmaster Flash
Diabolic
Eminem
Atmosphere
Eydea
Sage Francis
Brother Ali
LL Cool J
Chuck D
Heavy D
Missy Elliott
Ghostface Killah
Raekwon
GZA
RZA
Method Man
Redman
Inspectah Deck
Masta Killa
Papoose
Kool Moe Dee
Earl Sweatshirt
Will Smith
Snoop Dogg
ASAP Rocky
Q-Tip
Kool G Rap
Big Daddy Kane
Kool Keith
B-Real
Prodigy
Aceyalone
Kurupt
Foxy Brown
Guru
Ice-T
Pharaohe Monch
Xzibit
Scarface
KRS-One
Lauryn Hill

Obviously I couldn't include every MC ever to spit a beat, and unless I have made some glaring omissions this is the list going forward. Let me know if you think I have.

Everyone's free to participate so hopefully this works out well.