The Hip-Hop Battle Nominees
 

I couldn't think of cool racket names :/

1st bracket:
Talib Kweli
Madvillain
B.I.G.
Jay-Z
Common
Company Flow
Cannibal Ox
Aesop Rock
Sage Francis
Mos Def
Wu-Tang Clan
The Roots
Atmosphere
NWA
Nas

2nd Bracket:
Antipop Consortium
Jurassic 5
Heiroglyphics
Kanye West
Lupe Fiasco
Jedi Mind Tricks
Brother Ali
Tech N9ne
Eminem
EL-P
Madlib
Why?
Run DMC
LL Cool J
Ice Cube

3rd Bracket:
Beastie Boys
MF Doom
The Game
2pac
Ludacris
Deltron3030
GZA
Cunnin Lynguists
De La Soul
Public enemy
A Tribe Called Quest
Cage
Cypress Hill
Lil Wayne
Wyclef
Method Man
Roots Manuva
Afrika Bambaataa
Sugar Hill Gang
DangerDoom

4th Bracket:
The Stereo MC's
Blackstar
Necro
Rob Sonic
Rakim
Zion I
Ghostface Killah
Gnarls Barkely
Eyedea
Apathy
Murs
Busdriver
Sadistik
Bone Thugs N Harmony
Del The Funky Homosapien
Brand New Heavies
Big L
607
Look Daggers

5th Bracket:
mc chris
Spank rock
Mantronix
Grandmaster Flash
Hilltop Hoods
N*E*R*D
Binary Star
Charles Hamilton
Kid cudi
Outkast
Celph titled
Blu
Masta Ace
Doujah Raze
Asheru
Dalek
K'naan
Gym Class Heroes
Kool moe D
Giant Panda

6th Bracket:
Astronautalis
Colin munroe
Jehst
Blue Scholars
Dizee Rascal
Kool Here
Hollywood Undead
The Herd
P.O.S.
Grayskull
Ill Bill
Felt
Erykah Badu
Benefit
XV
Wale
Kottonmouth Kings
Cobra Starship
King Geedorah
US3
Mickey Avalon
B.o.B.
Black Milk
Mickey Factz
Fashawn
GrewSum
The Grouch
Matic Lee
Hangar 18
Hollyweerd
Mr. Lif
Pigeon John
R.A. The Rugged Man

KEY:
italics=elimanated.
bold=progressed

So are you to have 6 polls then? Because i think you'd be better off splitting each bracket in half and having 12, or even splitting each one into 3

Bubutbut you have someone like Antipop Consortium in the 2nd bracket, and Erykah Badu in the last? I don't think she's obscure at all.

Otherwise, **** YES BRING IT ON.

I'm voting Blu all the way.

Any predictions?
I'm hoping to see Talib Kweli porgress, but I think the 3rd bracket is the most solid. There will be tough choices ahead when it comes down to them.

Yeah, I was looking and that 3rd bracket is solid. However, the first bracket is absolutely stacked. Half of those mc's/groups could win the entire thing, let alone just that bracket.

fourth bracket is sick: blackstar, murs, del, big l.


however, i think that both the fifth and sixth brackets don't even need to exist.

I think the fith has some potential. The 6th seems mostly gimmicky though.

If Wu-Tang, Public Enemy, ATCQ, Company Flow and Cannibal Ox do not progress i will lambast this whole concept as an abject failure :)

Wow, people have such short memories, the brackets don't mean anything.