Don't stop the Hip Hop!

I am a huge hip  hop fan! I  love all kinds of music from pop to r&b, show tunes  to opera, gospel to rock, and definitely hip hop! I am not one of those people who think that the hip hop music from the 80s was better, but a lot of artists back then were original and so many set the trends for the rappers of today just as in any other music genre. You can tell which artists were influenced by which artists from the past just by their style and music. It's okay! That's how things go on, people continue to do it, just reinvent it. I think that there was maybe more variety in hip hop artists back then. Lets play hip hop back to the future...name some of your fave hip hop artists from back in the day up to now...mine are...A tribe called quest, salt & pepa, tone loc, the beastie boys, young mc, mc hammer, marky mark (that's right!) eric b & rakim, epmd, ll cool j, public enemy, run dmc, nwa(yeah I said it!), biz markie, big daddy kane, mc lyte, queen latifah, monie love, jazzy jeff & the fresh prince, slick rick & doug e. fresh, snoop dogg (then & now), tupac & biggie (of course), lil kim, foxy brown, jay z (then & now), freeway, beans, peedi, chris & neef, cassidy,  nas, outkast, ugk, missy, timbaland & magoo, bow wow, busta rhymes(then & now), dr. dre, eminem, wu tang clan, redman, puffy aka diddy(then & now), mase, naughty by nature, juevenile, lil wayne (then & now),50 cent, t.i, lil jon, wale, jeezy, plies, nelly, twista, fabolous,  trina, rick ross, meek millz,  kid cudi, wiz khalifa, kanye west, nicki minaj, drake & all my boys from the black eyed peas (my fave group!), I have so many more...... (Fave new & upcoming hip hop...ar-ab, shelby, gabe, young tech, dellz, shump bucketz, Reek, E-barz, Vish June & REESE REL!) Holla @ me...who r your faves then & now...who is on your list that isn't on mine.....let's go!