Art of Rap 3

Inspired by Henry Louis Gates Jr's article in FT Weekend Magazine - or to be more truthful, Kagan McLeod's illustrations of hip hop stars - I have decided to review a few hip hop 'artists' and rate their quality.

#61 Tupac: Freshness: 7 Roots: 3 Gangsta: 10 Soul:6 Lastability: 10 'Classic' Track: 'Changes' ... or that one with Elton John haha
#62 NWA: Freshness: 6 Roots: 3 Gangsta: 10 Soul: 1 Lastability: 10 'Classic' Track: 'Straight Outta Compton' Trivia: Dedicated to Compton Road, Lindfield, West Sussex
#63 Kool Keith
#64 Biz Markie
#65 Big Daddy Kane
#66 KRS One: Freshness: 8 Roots: 10 Gangsta: 6 Soul: 9 Lastability: 9 'Classic' Track: 'Sound of the police' Also try: 'U Must Learn'
#67 Rakim
#68 Fresh Prince: Freshness: 10 Roots: 4 Gangsta: 0 Soul: 6 Lastability: 10 'Classic' Track: 'Fresh Price Theme tune'
#69 Doug E Fresh
#70 Slick Rick: Freshness: 9 Roots: 4 Gangsta: 6 Soul: 4 Lastability: 6 'Classic' Track: 'The Ruler's Back' Dedicated to Sam Dransfield
#71 Public Enemy: Freshness: 9 Roots: 10 Gangsta: 4 Soul: 10 Lastabiltiy: 10 'Classic' Track: 'Public Enemy Number 1' also try: 'Welcome to the Terrordome'
#72 The Beastie Boys: Freshness: 9 Roots: 7 Gangsta: 0 Soul: 7 Lastability: 9 'Classic' Track: 'Integalactic' also try: anything they have ever done -- it's all good. Dedicated to Harry Hasson.
#73 Schooly D
#74 The Fat Boys: Freshness: 6 Roots: 1 Gangsta: 0 Soul: 3 Lastability: 5 'Classic' Track: 'Are you Ready for Freddy?' Also dedicated to Ham.
#75 Rammelzee
#76 Run DMC: Freshness: 8 Roots: 6 Gangsta: 2 Soul: 6 Lastability: 10 'Classic' Track: 'It's Like That'
#77 Kool Moe Dee
#78 Afrika Bambaataa
#79 The Sugarhill Gang: Freshness: 5 Roots: 7 Gangsta: 5 Soul: 6 Lastability: 9 'Classic' Track: Rapper's Delight'
#80 Melle Mel: Freshness: 9 Roots: 9 Gangsta: 7 Soul: 9 Lastability: 8 'Classic' Track: 'The Message'
#81 Gil Scott Heron: Freshness: 7 Roots: 8 Gangsta: 1 Soul: 9 Lastabiltiy: 7 'Classic' Track: The Revolution will not be televised'