Who's your favorite punchline rapper? (Back to The Forum)

As a hiphop fan i’ve always caught myself fascinated with punchline rappers and im always looking for ways to interpret lines…so who takes the cake???My Favorite would have to be this man….

Yeah I was going to say Childish Gambino as well. But I definitely think that Drake was the one who brought it to the mainstream level with his flow. They both perfected it. It’s one thing to do it, but you actually have to be good at it. The problem with some rappers nowadays is that they do it, but the lines aren’t that good.

Chino XL.

@Eon yea and my problem with “punchline” rappers is that they pause the beat too fucking much!(cough cough Meek Mill cough cough)

Big L is the king

Fabolous is fantastic at punchline rapping. Weezy circa 07 as well.

Honestly I find Childish’s punchlines a little forced. He always comes off as working way too hard to make connections and be clever. The best punchlines, to me, are like those 3D images that you have to cross your eyes to see correctly. At first it just seems like a normal, literal line but then all of a sudden it clicks and you’re perspective on it shifts.

CG seems to WANT me to have to look his stuff up, so that I can marvel at his cultural knowledge.

Big L is the shizzzzzz….and yea Gambino does so much with them but thats what makes me love his punchlines…EE Cumming on her face now thats poetry in motion…had to research the hell out of that

@zenmeloncholy the fact that you feel CG wants you to look his stuff up is the whole point, I think. His lines are sometimes so complex and unorthodox that he’s making it a thing of his own. And I agree with you about Loso. He’s tooo cold when it comes to punchline rapping.

And someone else I want to give an honorable mention to is XV. Although its not necessarily punchline rapping, he does it in a way where you would have to hear the whole line (especially near the end) to know what he’s saying, directly or indirectly.

I wouldn’t say he would be my favorite but Lil Wayne cracks me up with his.
“I get money to kill time, dead clocks"
"banana clip, let chaquita speak"
"I beat the beat up, call it self defense"
"Try me and run into a wall, outfielder"
"I got money on etcetera…three dots”

lol @Tito…Wayne has punches that just get really repetitive tho…tho i think Wayne brought punchline rapping back after the dark ages of hip hop

ya like I said he ain’t my favorite but he’s got some funny ones

Fabolous GOAT punchline rapper tbh.

Nobody beats Big L with punchlines.

Yeah Big L Son

Big L takes the cake by popular demand

The man who invented the Supa Dupa flow. Big Sean.

cassidy

Aw cool…btw im a rapper and i pride myself on my punchlines…anyone wanna listen?

@Eon

Drake publically said he credits Big Sean to that flow.

Big L, Eminem, Canibus, and Chino XL are the best imo

@isiah g lets hear it

fabolous! got undercover punchlines all day

http://youtu.be/gWcTBZFh244

@Adonis thanks…

http://soundcloud.com/isaiahg-1/sets/global-empire

Celph Titled, no doubt

Its my mixtape i dropped like a week ago

chino xl
Big l
cassidy
fabolous
lloyd banks
crooked i

@Loopeh he did? was it like in an interview or something?

Big Sean didn’t invent shit.

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And Big L

and I got her nigga, GROCERY BAG!! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ChXPO3FSq20 BTW this is for the WORST

Second to Big L, I really like Cassidy, though I feel he’s kept a pretty low profile the last couple of years.

Chino XL and Canibus

WARNING!!!! DANGEROUS LYRICS!!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pPXa9H5t3HQ

@12inchcris the fuck does that line mean???

Reggie Noble………easy

D-Pryde

^ Dude said Big Sean.

Eminem, Royce Da 5'9", Big L, Pharoahe Monch, Canibus, Cassidy, Chino XL

Celph Titled.

Big L is the best punchline rapper in my opinon

Overall, Big Daddy Kane’s punchlines always make me laugh. But Gambino is the best right now IMO.

“I made the beat and murdered it, Casey Anthony” I don’t even like that song but when I heard that line I laughed so hard

Redman (I think he counts?)

Los
Vakill
Chino Xl
Canibus

Childish isn’t good with punches.

I guess I’m gonna get alot of thumbs down but I honestly don’t see how anyone cannot say Wayne without a doubt.his punchlines have definitely gotten formulaic bit the gig has practically cornered the market on clever.
“Make the money chase its shadow — call it dolla after dolla "
"Life is a motherfuckin gamble: peter rose”(for baseball fans only haha)
“Cut off his arm and leg — like I charge for my features"
"Fly — go hard,like geese erection"
"fly shit like a parrot’s ass"
"She pop ex,I smoke o’s: tic-tac-toe"
It just goes on and on and on……

And of course the lasagna line. Cmon who the fuck would come up with that??

Ok take a deep breath guys and remember were just talking about music-part of the fun oak the different opinions.

Shit I can take whatever u got,i just think its lame when someones treated liketheyre retarded for liking lil wayne.or whoever.

Ok bring it on! Haha I love a good debate

shit sorry for all the typos. Maybe I am retarded.
But the guy has practically
part of the fun is(how the fuck did this thing get “oak”?'

Not Canibus that’s forsure

Tonedeff anyone?

Luda is not the best but he can do it