Jay-Z shot an email to MTV in regards to him being given the #1 spot on their Hottest MC in the Game list. He also called them out for not including Eminem.
MTV, Thanx for this nod of appreciation. Although I don’t strive to be ‘hot’ for any particular year, I thank you for the acknowledgment. My whole goal is to be recognized as the best ever. I created the term ‘best rapper alive’ as a sign of respect to my fallen comrades (Biggie and Tupac). I believe I’ve allowed a significant grace period, and I believe I would not be respecting myself if being the absolute best was not my goal, and that’s why I continue to push myself until exhaustion … salute.
Sidebar: Kanye moment if I may … Eminem?!?! I think you do the credibility of this list a disservice if you don’t thoroughly explain his omission. As of this second he has the highest selling rap album of the year and a scene stealing verse on the best ‘posse’ cut of the year . (*Hands mic back to Taylor Swift … and nobody was harmed, I apologize in advance.)
For those wondering why Em was excluded, check their explanation.
Kanye moment if I may … Eminem?!?! LMAO
That Explanation Was WACK… Eminem At LEAST deserved the number 10 spot…. Best Selling Album Of The Year… Best Verse On The Best Track Of The Year ? Yea AT LEAST 10 & Even That Would Be Retarded … Take Rick Ross Of & Put Em On
If that’s the reason he wasn’t on “low profile over the summer” then quite a few of the names on that list shouldn’t be on there.
MTV lost
^ Co-Sign
Heh. Well, at least now we can ignore the top ten list from now on. Even the guy on top thinks it’s a farce.
WHERE WAS I?!?!?! oh yeah… catchin L’s
if em had a low profile while this list was being compiled then ross and jeezy have been in a even lower profile
^^ LOL…
@ mrak: I’ve been ignoring MTV since 2004…
that lol was directed to joey up there
mtvs explanation is bull shit wat has jeezy done i dnt see him
….their explanation was BS. How in the hell Em isn’t “hot” when he sold what, like 600,000 in the first week out, and went like plat in what, 2 weeks, when no one, not even Jay or Kanye could do it? He outshined damn near the whole Top 5 on one song. They should take off Gucci, and Rick Ross ass.
Eminem >>>> MTV
Rick Ross’ album came out in april…and it sucked, but he was on the list. Lets do away with the list, MTV doesn’t even play music anymore what gives them credibility?
and look at the judges they know shit about hip-hop. As long as you put out a lot of music and get radio play you are on the list.and has anyone seen Buttah? he’s one of the judges and honestly he knows nothing
ha, even jay thought it was bullshxt
I agree with Drico about Ross. Ross has been MIA since April and he’s on there, and he didn’t have nearly the buzz Em did when his album dropped. I don’t know how you can sell 600,000 albums in a week and not be considered hot.
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Some of yall ain’t gettin it. This is about what someone accomplished this YEAR or with their LAST ALBUM. It is about who is hot RIGHT NOW.
They coulda gave him the ten spot, but it doesn’t really matter anyway. It’s a MTV list!
that was a bullshit explanation. how you gonna have rick ross and gucci mane on the list and leave out eminem…mtv needs to never comment on anything hip hop related
Fuck Gucci Mane!!! The dudes lyrics are horse excretion…Em deff deserved a spot in there…As for Jays spot…No rapper on the planet deserved it as much as him..Props Hov!!!
that’s the dumbest explanation… other than a**holes who think its the greatest of all time list
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2oZkzPnNYJ4
Bullshit
that was the biggest waste of time explanation that i have ever read. SMH @ so called hip hop “brain trust”.
ITS MTV. who cares?
“The Hottest MCs in the Game list is created entirely by the Hip-Hop Brain Trust, a group of 10 passionate, informed, opinionated people who rank, discuss and debate artists’ heat in a precise moment. With this list, it’s all about the now. ”
LOL
*pukes*
ha wow fuck mtv’s wack ass explanation.
I said the same shit that explanation wa true bullshit and in that case Kanye, Wayne, Jeezy or Officer Ricky shouldnt have been on the list give those spots to Em, Banks, Joe & Chamillionaire
smh that niggas actually take offense to this bullshit list. come on folks, its fuckin mtv. nothin they put out should never be takin seriously.
MTV’s reason is complete bullshit. First of all, NEVER rank Gucci Mane on any Hot MC list. Eminem sold more than ANY artist this year WITHOUT having to drop a mixtape, feature on anybody’s song, build an internet buzz, etc. This was strictly “put out a single, let it buzz, drop an album, and go platinum.” If that ain’t hot, then I don’t know what is.
thats cuz white little teeny boppers who bumb We Made You daily had their parents buy it, or used their itunes gift points to buy it. where as hip hop fans bootleg out the ass (don’t lie, you know you do) shit i got a lot of new albums in iTunes right now, but only bought Cudi, Drake and Brother Ali this year.
i mean we can argue all day long about who the 10 ten emcee’s that been doing it big this year, but its MTV. If you like Eminem, i doubt this dumb list will change your minds. Gucci is number 5, doesn’t make me think maybe he is something big/hot in rap right now.
correct me if im wrong but isnt this 2009 hottest mc in the game?? Why does it matter when u peak in the year….. Esp since jeezy was on that my president shit in the beginning of the year & jay did all his shit in september & rick ross dissed 50 then dropped the album then went mia… I guess em shud of got 2 chicks pregnant or somethin to stay in the news
oh & fck buttah!!
um since this IS a Jay-Z post…where’s the ass and titties????
lol that has to be the wackest explanation ever, they said they didnt include him cuz the list was already made like back in may but jay-z didnt drop a album before may and they even said they would of put kanye in a higher position if he didn’t do the taylor swift…. I just lost respect for SWAY and i never had for the rest of the other 9 wanna be hip-hop heads….
so i’m eating this amazing cereal (honey bunches of oats w/ almonds) and i had to chuckle when i read about the ‘brain trust’.
i stopped reading once i read about this ‘brain trust’.
i despise MTV as im sure others do too.
honestly tho who really cares? this shit was stupid in the first place, had no credibility, and is just another best-of-list created for the sake of nothin, not to mention its work from MTV that doesnt deserve any respect regardless.
funny thing is Slim is prolly sittin at home laughin not givin a fuck at all. i hope a reference to all this nonsense made the recording sessions for Relapse 2
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I Should Get My Own Show Top MC’s of 2009:
1. Eminem
2. T.I.
3. Lil’ Wayne
4. Kanye West
5. Ludacris
6. Kid Cudi
7. Drake
8. Jay-Z
9. Young Jeezy
10. Fabolous
That list is such an anti-climatic piece of shit . lol . its like MTV is doing their best to solidify their position as an organization at opposition with reality and truth.
Keep it funky, with 600,000 in sales, what record does Em have that has the streets buzzing? He got more recognition for his verse on “Forever” than his own album. Truthfully, nobody is paying him any mind. That 600,000 sales are ppl who are purchasing his album off the strength of his name and the machine where he was built. Shout out to Jay-Z, Drake, & Jeezy! One time for MTV!
If the list was based on hottest mc’s of the past year theirs 1 guy missing
Although I’m not a big fan of him is flo rida, I mean how many hits did this
Guy have this year along with his album IMP he should have been there with
Eminem too.MTV lost I mean 50 cent,jeezy????.peace
That’s The Most Garbage Line I’ve Ever Heard From Someone Trying To Explain Themselves…That’s An Automatic Epic Fail For MTV
Don’t Get Me Wrong…Yeah Jay Is Hot At This Moment…Bp3 came out septemeber 8th…songs of his started leaking 2-3 weeks before the album came out…in that same month in septemeber,MTV came out around again with that bullshittin hottest mc list…after jay came out with his album,they held the contest and pushed it back a couple of weeks…all in all…they waited for jay’s shit to blast off in sells and he hasn’t even hit a mil yet,he’s at 997k at the moment…em at this time was 1,049m…i’m just saying MTV was showing huge favoritism towards jay cause he did they lil MTV video awards performance and shit when em won an award and also performed at the MTV movie awards…
point is….
jay gets hot in 2 months…gets number 1
kanye really didn’t deserve to be on there,no hip hop album.,no mixtapes..just features but yet he gets #4
em at least should of got #4
jay knows he was just at the right place at the right time…
if t.i. was out,he would of been in there,cudi should of made it,luda as well…but these nigga’s don’t really get the respect they deserve…
IMO*
What bugs me out is how Lil’ Wayne made #2 though he hasn’t done jack sh*t all year but features with mediocre verses and craptacular mixtape tracks…yet Eminem misses out?
Forgot to mention…50 Cent on the list too….MTV should just stop trying to involve themselves.
Yeah And Don’t Forget Jeezy….How The Fuck Did He Make It?
I Mean He’s Cool And All…But He’s Been M.I.A.This Whole Year Almost Except That Coochie Mane And Oj The Gayman Diss 24/23
HAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHA best posse cut of the year? How bout half the slaughterhouse tracks, or “NY is #1″ by Digga featuring Skyzoo, Torae, Stimuli, Chaundon, or a whole bunch of other tracks
going by there explanation then wayne and jeezy shouldnt be on the list either. they both havent had much out recently
…WOW. I lost MORE respect for Mtv. Gucci man??? I guess “hottest” means most commercialy viable and gimmicky. Psshhh. Peace. *returns listening 2 Moment Of Truth.
@FakirWise. Agreed my brother.
All Lil’ Wayne has done all year is a handfull of guest verses and promise to release an album that still hasn’t come out 4 months after its original release.
Also(Kanye moment right here LOL) take the word “hottest” out of the name of MTV’s list then look at it again, if this was just a list of MC’s then 2, 5,6,7,8 and 9 all need to be taken off it because they all range from mediocre to absolutely terrible. MTV have seriously forgotten what the term MC means.
OK Kanye moment over. *hands mic back*
okay mtv, next year make it “BEST MC’s” and put Em on there…
(and exclude cucci man)
I’m sure this list is called Hottest Emcees of 2009 not Hottest Emcees of September 2009.
Bottom Line Is…
This MTV List Is Halloween…
By That I Mean I Thought It Was Gonna Be A Treat…
But We All Got Tricked Into That Garbage Voting Process And
This Is What The Outcome Of The Shit Is…
if i had bill gates money i would be scheming and plotting to start up another music channel and actually play music and no reality tv and watch mtv bet vh1 crumble as years past
Congrats Jay. Well said. Bottom line. Its called hottest MCs of 2009…not Sept 2009. Thier explanation just makes no sense.
Em sold the most records this year and had a song reach number 1 on the billboard charts
He was def top 5
whatever we’ll see if he isnt on anybodys top 5 list after relapse 2
“kanye really didn’t deserve to be on there,no hip hop album.,no mixtapes..just features but yet he gets #4″
amen
Shady, you’re fucking bugging. How do you say they waited to drop this for Jay? What kind of bullshit conspiracy theory is that? Did Hov not heat up the whole summer debate with dropping D.O.A.? Has he not had everyone on edges for BP3 since Jockin’ Jay-Z LAST YEAR. He’s had some dope verses the whole time he’s had his shit coming out. He deserved that spot. Don’t even try to discredit dude to say that it was because he did an MTV performance. That’s really wack of you, man. How dare you niggas say he’s undeserving?
Regardless, Eminem DEFINITELY should have been on that list. DEFINITELY. That’s real wack that they left him out.
“How dare you” this shit is comedy
but yeah its a wack ass explanation for not having eminem on the list. what they’re saying is it’s the hottest MCs from June to September, not the whole of 2009 thus far.
the real reason is probably that they need some controversy to garner attention and this was easiest.
niketheory…
nigga did i say he was undeserving?
trust me…there are plenty of other people who also thinks the same thing…tell me then chump,why the hell did MTV push back the date of sep 21 to oct something…wow…jocking jay z was last year…that nigga been quiet as hell until this summer with one song…D.O.A. then after that a month or 2 later,songs from his album were starting to leak…i ain’t never said he was undeserving…i’m not really feeling how in that 3 month span he gets number one…when actually drake was hotter than jay during that period…i’m not a super huge fan of drake…but he kept his buzz high for a whole year now…his stock only keeps rising…he addressed the hip hop world about auto-tune…big whoop wanna fight about?lmao
Eminem not in the top 10? MTV dun lost there minds!!!
WHAT EVER HAPPENED TO NAS, SAIGON, LUDA, JOEL ORTIZ… NAS SHOULD OF BEEN UP THERE REGARDLESS.. MTV DON’T NO ABOUT REAL HI HOP ANYWAYS.. YALL SHOULD OF BEEN ASHAMED OF YOURSELVES, NOT PUTTIN NAS ON THAT LIST..
Nas SHOULD OF MADE THAT LIST MY PEOPLE…
OMFG! This list is a bunch of bullsh*t besides Jay-Z being number 1 but eminem should be number 2 for damn sure! How you gonna have wayne at number two, when that dude been begging Eminem to collab wit him this whole year, and when “Forever” came out Em blew them all out wit his verse, and he didnt even have to try hard for it.LOL……MTV needs too redo that list for sure!
raekwon = 1 for 2009
all hip hop heads know this.