Top 10 Oakland Rappers

The Top Ten
1 2Pac Tupac Amaru Shakur, also known as 2Pac, was an American rapper and actor born on June 16, 1971 in East Harlem, New York. Tupac sold over 75 million records worldwide and has been referred to in multiple major publications such as Rolling Stone as one of the greatest music artists of all time. 2Pac was assassinated on September 1996 at the age of 25. ...read more.

lived in oaklnd for some time

The best overall that ever did it.

Way better than all the rappers ps. He's noy alive people that think that

Oakland in the house.

2 Yukmouth

Lyrically speaking yuk is on par with pac, not better than pac but on par. Listen to all his stuff from thd early luniz to the thug lord stuff. Bars, lyricism he a beast.

former memeber of the Luniz

Underrated legend

3 Mac Dre Andre Louis Hicks, better known by his stage name Mac Dre, was an American rapper and record producer, founder of Thizz Entertainment record label.

Mac dre is best rapper of all time if you were growing up late 90s early 2000s and into that kinda stuff then Mac dre was like a God I never danced other than slow dances with girls until I heard Mac dre. We were going crazy at the club at the house party in the Parding lot at a red light on the bay bridge stuck in traffic where ever we were dre was playing and we were going crazy dre taught me how to feel myself and I ve been doing it ever since its hella sad he died or else everyone wod be lovin him now even more Mac dre all day boi

R.I. P mac drizzle one of the biggest bay area rappers

Get in the building, and feel yourself

He is the bay area.

4 Too $hort

raised in oakland most of his life

Too short only blew up because of coming out with the ghetto. Prior to that, he was known as a foul mouth, disrespectful to women, with nothing positive to say. He has no lyrical skills. Rumor has it, that while doing community service in emeryville, he ran across a city worker, and was given a tape to a young lyricist. He stoled her lyrics and came out with the ghetto the following year.

The Dangerous Crew didn't get nearly enough representation on this list.

Too short as a former probation officer and a current educator I recall when Todd shaw and mark curry were just up and coming up on oakland and performed kuvy pumps slaps making snaps take kare

5 The Jacka

Speaks for the hoods! Ups and downs intelligent deep minded. Rapper best of all time underground bay rapper.R.I. P to the Dopest foreal! The jacka of mob figaz

Rip jacka we miss the jacka like we miss Mac dre seagram and rappin ron

The best of all time

6 Messy Marv

Rappin 4 tay! That Bay Area sound was tight back on the day straight like that!

7 Richie Rich

Living Legend, Bay Icon, D-Boy extraordinaire! Kandy paint, gold ones, vogues, Zapco. Haha! Enough said

Richie Rich is one of the Bay Area Legendary Lengends. "Oakland"

Hi! richie rich your flow and your lyrics give me hope and power!

Dubble r is the best rapper of the world for me.FRENCH FAN. THANKS RICH

8 E-40 Earl Stevens better known by his stage name E-40, is an American rapper, entrepreneur, and investor from Vallejo, California.

E forty is the top of the list keepin the bay way cracking hands down

He is just a good rapper. And he represents Oakland ca.

E40 is good but not from Oakland... He from Vallejo!

Voted best by daniel 7yrs old!

9 G Eazy

Straight from the bay

G-Eazy needs to be number 2

He is horrible at making music

New/old combo of rap

10 Dru Down

The best of the Bay!

The Contenders
11 Del Tha Funkee Homosapien

The whole Hieroglyphics crew should be in the top 5! Word play second to none! Well E-40 has crazy slang and original delivery but, from ValleyJoe! Tupac was born on the Least Coast! All in all, HIERO!

Underrated emcee. Member of the Hieroglyphics and cousin of Ice Cube. Really dope... Mistadobalina!

most underated rapper in the bay area

12 Shock G

Great rapper although just like those, he was east coast. Shock grew up in Florida and brooklyn

Founder of Digital Underground as wall as tupac

13 Philthy Rich

Philthy Rich one of the hottest rappers in the bay at the moment along with Joe Blow. Both from Oakland

14 Keak Da Sneak
15 Rappin' 4-Tay

Is there an opinion needed, come on his name says it all. If your too stupid to know what it means look up.

Old school player that's all I got 2 day!

16 M.C. Hammer

MC Hammer is the best Oakland rapper of all time and he put Oakland on the map. He has one of the best selling rap albums of all time.

Went Platnum some many times that I can't count

17 Idaho J Doe

Get on the map boi

I think he should be number 4 or 5

Dopest rapper of all time

Best

18 Boots Riley

Boots Riley and The Coup is some of the funkiest and politically aware hip hop still to this day. Great flow and lyricism.

Tremendous text making sense, goof flow, music style on stage from funk to punk, humor and genrosity. Great artist... Welcome in Europe

19 San Quinn
20 Kreayshawn Gail Zolot, better known by her stage name Kreayshawn, is an American rapper, singer, and creative director.
21 Cookie Money

Better than most

He ain't down for his stuff "hit licks" hahaa

Cookie. money go crazy

BeSt YoUnGiN DoInG iT oUt HeRe

22 J. Stalin Jovan Smith, better known by his stage name J. Stalin, is a rapper from the Cypress Village housing projects in West Oakland. In 2007, he signed to Zoo Entertainment Production Company run by artist Mekanix, who described his style as a variant of Hyphy known as "Go".

One of the illist flows to come from the bay, true oakland gangsta slaps right here

Bang dance is his one of his best song to me of all time

Best rappers to come out of west oakland is j stalin and free Macblast

23 Joe Blow

The real mafia cartel of the bay

24 Kehlani

She mostly sings but she rap too!

25 Rappin' Ron

Best rapper from California die to soon to get his names but in the bay area

It sucks that he got in that car accident. He was starting to reach up there.

The best all time

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