Jacking For Posts: MTV’s 2011 Hottest MC’s = FAIL
The Smoking Section — If MTV hasn’t lost its credibility in your eyes by now, their nominees for the “Hottest MC’s In The Game VII” might be the tipping point.
Every year around this time, the station formerly known as Music Television pulls together some of Hip-Hop’s high-profile tastemakers to sift through the sea of MCs currently making noise and argue until they’ve come up with a ranked list of the genre’s top ten entertainers. Factoring in elements like reach, song-writing, lyrical content, output and marketability, this highly-touted “who’s who” of the rap industry serves as the bar for which artists many mainstream music outlets will push and promote over the course of the following 365, garnering much debate as a result.
Well, after a year that saw Billboard broken by new jacks and relatively underground artists receiving more critical-acclaim than ever before, MTV has unveiled their 25 nominees for last year. Unfortunately, the names below may induce vomiting.
