54% Of People Agree That This Was The Best Hip-Hop Artist Of The 90s

We didn't see this one coming, but Nastradamus himself, AKA Nasir bin Olu Dara Jones, or simply, Nas, crashes out of our survey in last place. The man behind stone-cold '90s classics Illmatic, Nas's debut album from 1994, and the follow up It Was Written, from 1996, took just 4 percent of the vote, a

We didn't see this one coming, but Nastradamus himself, AKA Nasir bin Olu Dara Jones, or simply, Nas, crashes out of our survey in last place. The man behind stone-cold '90s classics Illmatic, Nas's debut album from 1994, and the follow up It Was Written, from 1996, took just 4 percent of the vote, a surprise to many classic rap fans if your comments were anything to go by. Though Nas may not be as visible these days as he used to be, he dropped his well-received 13th album King's Disease in August 2020, and still gets his props, with Billboard including him on their list of the top 10 rappers of all time as recently as 2015. 

Meanwhile, 8 percent of you voted "other" in our survey, double the votes for Nas. Many of you suggested some classic hip-hop crews who deserved a place on the list — Wu-Tang Clan, A Tribe Called Quest, Fugees — but most matched our survey by naming individual rappers for the gong. We were reminded by many voters that we "forgot about Dre," while others wanted Eminem on the list (though some would argue that Eminem's heyday was later, after the release of The Marshall Mathers LP in 2000).

But the name that we saw most often below the line? The MC who "scared Nas to death," according to MTV News: Big L. 

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