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“Conscious MC” Talib Kweli recently condemned Rick Ross’ r@pey rappity-raps then defended his right to say them because of social conditioning/urban decay blaaahblibbityblaaah. Famously-“fake-deep,” Talib SEEMS intelligent (like every rapper on this list) but never really knows what he’s talking about.

Here are the ten smart-dumbest rappers in the game. Take a look.[bossip_ad_a]

Kanye West

Yeezy scoffed at higher-education (“College Dropout”) then rapped like an uneducated, leather capri-wearing bozo. AIDs = man-made disease dropped in Africa to break up the Black Panthers? Ye’s thoughts, not ours.[bossip_ad_a]

Clifford “T.I.” Huxtable

The 8-time felon-turned-wholesome TV dad uses all kinds of extravagant multi-syllable words (and probably was the head of his prison class) but fell for the ’ole spicy chicken strip on a string-trick and caught gun charges. SMH.[bossip_ad_a]

Yasiin Bey Mos Def

Mighty Mos was the premier intellectual MC who rapped about issues like water quality on his debut “Black on Both Sides” then went on “Real Time with Bill Mayer” and embarrassed himself. Bin Laden had NOTHING to do with 9-11? OK, Mos.[bossip_ad_a]

Ghostface

The scatterbrained philosopher is the greatest to ever rap about absolutely nothing, consistently. His bars may sound “complex” but they’re really just random thoughts and words that sound dope together.[bossip_ad_a]

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