Who are the Dylan and Beatles of rap? Will it ever produce equivalents?

Jay Z is the James Brown. And Robert Plant is the JB of rock. Meaning the most soulful rock singer.

 

I guess I understood the core of the question differently; to me it's not: is anyone in hip hop as good as the Beatles - more like, if you apprecitae hip hop and its history, who would you think are to that genre what the Beatles and Dylan were to rock.
Like, if I were to say Kraftwerk are the Beatles of electronic music, I'm not comparing the two bands, just their arch in the overall history of the type of music they're playing.

 

NWA and Public Enemy need a mention then.

 

Wake up the Beatles surpassed both of them. Bob Dylan and The Rolling Stones also surpassed Presley and Sinatra.

This is not to knock Sinatra or Presley but Revolver for example is clearly a superior to any album Presley or Sinatra did.

 

Run DMC and Public Enemy.

 

Yeah really Kayne is comparable to The Beatles? You just can't make this up.

 

Well I agree with you, but it's not a fact that those guys were surpassed, and I'm sure that lots of people would rather listen to Strangers In The Night or Suspicious Minds Gimme Shelter or A Day In The Life. It's subjective, in other words (little Sinatra reference there)

 

Oh come on man, they've been compared to worse. Nearly every artist has been compared to that four headed record breaker

 

Dylan is the Dylan of rap.

 

Absolute rubbish! What is with you guys? You happen to think that the entire recording industry started and ended wirh the Beatles. Genuinely feel sorry for you for having such a myopic view!

 

Revolver does beat out those albums though in my opinion. It was the back end of the crooner stuff, thankfully, and the Beatles were the new latest and greatest thing. Not really Elvis or Sinatra's fault however.

 

Here are The Beatles of rap..............
(Surprised this hasn't been posted yet)

 

Answer: Rap is it's own genre with it's own icons to be compared to. Not to other forms of music.

 

Who is the Wendy Carlos of Grunge?