Kendrick Lamar G.O.A.T Perhaps?

American Rapper Kendrick Lamar born Kendrick Lamar Duckworth in Compton, California is in my personal opinion one of the greatest rappers of all time and not just in my generation. His musical flow is like none other. He's often stated that his biggest musical influences and top favorite rappers are the late great Tupac Shakur,The Notorious B.I.G, Nas, Jay-Z, Eminem, DMX, Ice Cube and Prodigy of Rap Group Mobb Deep. So far Kendrick has won a total of Seven Grammy Awards as well as received the key to the city of Compton back in the year 2016. Kendrick Lamar has released a total of three studio albums in which two of those three were certified platinum. He is also currently signed to Top Dawg Entertainment and Aftermath Records as well as a member of the rap group BlackHippy alongside fellow labelmates Ab-Soul, Jay Rock and Schoolboy Q.

Kendrick Lamar first gained recognition from Dr. Dre when the legend heard the song "Ignorance is Bliss" on Kendrick's Mixtape/EP Overly Dedicated back in 2010. Since that moment Kendrick and Dr. Dre has been working together on several of Kendrick's songs and Dre's long-awaited Detox album. In fact Dr. Dre made an appearance on Kendrick's good kid, m.A.A.d city album on songs called The Recipe and Compton; Kendrick himself even made an appearance on Dr Dre's album Compton on the tracks Genocide, Deep Water, and Darkside/Gone.

In Conclusion, Kendrick is one of my favorites is because his punchlines are amazing and he's an innovator as well a great influence and role model on the youth today. Kendrick doesn't drink alcohol or smoke marijuana and although he knows people who "Gangbang", he himself doesn't participate in those activities. Kendrick is rarely involved in Rap beefs but when his name is mentioned he answers back with a dope track of his own. In my honest opinion, I believe that Kendrick Lamar is the King of Hip-Hop and will be on top of the throne for several more years to come.

 

Ice Cube

Recording artist, songwriter, record producer, actor and filmmaker Ice Cube was born O'Shea Jackson Sr. on June 15th,1969 in South Los Angeles, California. He is best known for being apart of the legendary Hip-Hop/Rap Group N.W.A with artists consisting of Eazy-E, DJ Yella, MC Ren, Dr. Dre and Ice Cube during the late 1980s and the early 1990s. Cube is also known for releasing several platinum solo albums such as AmeriKKKa's Most Wanted, Death Certificate, The Predator, and Lethal Injection among other great albums. Ice Cube is also known for directing, producing and starring in classic such as Boyz N-The Hood with Cuba Gooding Jr., Anaconda, First Sunday with Tracy Morgan, All About the Benjamins with Mike Epps, Ride Along with Kevin Hart, Straight Outta Compton the N.W.A. Biopic in which he Produced and his son O'Shea Jackson Jr starred in the film as his father, and Friday which is argued to be one of the best hood movies ever made.

Before Ice Cube became one of the most famous black actors/film directors/rappers of all time he was apart of one of the most controversial rap groups of all time N.W.A. While he was a member of this group he was said to be the one that wrote most of the lyrics for the group. He was also known for leaving the group first due to the fact that he was being treated unfairly, and that he wasn't getting paid.

Ice Cube is said to be one of the West Coast's Hip-Hop/Rap pioneers. As a solo artist, Cube released nine studio albums and six of those went Platinum. Ice Cube is known for recording hit singles It Was a Good Day, Check Yo Self, You Know How We Do It, and Go to Church.

As an actor he played in several great films. One of my favorites had to be Friday. I say that because in the movie while it taught me several different life lessons it was also well written.

In Conclusion, Ice Cube is one of the most influential people in my eyes mainly because he's come a long way from the bottom to the top of his game.

History of CM Punk Past-Present

CM Punk born Phillip Brooks is a Ex-Professional wrestler now turned MMA fighter for the UFC. CM Punk is known as one of the best wrestlers of all time inside of the wrestling ring and on the microphone; with his most notable incident being the Pipebomb that he dropped on a episode of Monday Night Raw when he came out and sat on the stage and voiced his frustrations about the company. He has wrestled for several different promotions all over the world such as Ring of Honor, Full Impact Pro, Pro Wrestling Guerrilla, NWA-TNA which is now Impact Wrestling and perhaps the biggest promotion in Sports Entertainment today World Wrestling Entertainment(WWE). The CM in CM Punk originally stood for Chick Magnet was a tag team he was thrown into at the last minute in the early stages of his career.

What makes Punk one of the best wrestlers of all time is that every single promotion that he's been apart of he has won that promotion's biggest title and held for longer than 100 days. He has had big matches against wrestling legends John Cena, The Undertaker, AJ Styles, Jeff Jarrett, Raven, Sabu, and Colt Cabana who is one of his closest friends.

Before Punk reached the WWE he had spent some time wrestling for several Indy promotions with big name wrestlers like AJ Styles, Samoa Joe, Seth Rollins, as well as Daniel Bryan. While wrestling on the independent circuit he had won several different championships titles.

In Conclusion, during the year 2014 Punk decided to retire from Professional Wrestling because of several different disputes with Vince McMahon and Triple H. These problems stemmed from Punk feeling as he was being mistreated and that he felt that he deserved more main event opportunities over guys like fan favorite 16 time World Champion John Cena. Now although he was the longest reigning World Champion in the company's history he felt that his career was being wasted so he decided to retire and pursue a career in Mixed Martial Arts with the UFC. During the 2016 calendar year he would finally have his first UFC fight and would end up losing pretty badly in less than 1 minute. The question now remains will CM Punk return to the Octagon for a second fight or will he come out of retirement and return to professional wrestling.