News - Written by The Source on Saturday, November 8, 2008 10:48 - 13 Comments
Goodbye Rap City

Today, Saturday at 10 p.m., BET will air the finale of the long-running network staple, Rap City. BET announced the decision to end the show last month.
Former hosts including Chris Thomas aka “The Mayor”, Big Lez, Big Tigger, Mad Linx, and most recent host, Q-45 will all be in the house as will several rap stars who have been featured on the show over the years.
50 Cent, Busta Rhymes, Fabolous, E-40, LL Cool J, Bow Wow, Jadakiss, Ludacris, Talib Kweli, Young Jeezy, Wu-Tang Clan and Soulja Boy will all be there.
Rap City debuted in 1989.
More pictures of Big Lez, Mad Linx, Joe Clair Wu-Tang and more after the jump.


13 Comments
tony loredo
PROOF THAT HIP HOP IZZ DYING
5 Deadly Venoms
The rap city top 10 and the hip hop pick was epic
UNDASTUD
IT WAZ CANCELED CAUSE OF THAT WACK AZZ MAINSTEAM BULLSHIT IT WAZ PLAYING! THEY SHOULD HAVE MIXED UP WITH SOME UNDERGROUND SHIT FROM EVERYWHERE EAST ,WEST ,SOUTH IT DIDNT MATTER.OH WELL LEAST I WONT THEM WACK AZZ VIDEOS WITH SUSPECT GAY DANCING.HIP HOP IS DEAD! DJ ST(UNK) ,SOULJA BITCH,AND DUM FRANCHISE HOES KILLED IT!!!
Harlem Princess
Rap City will be missed. Thanks for the good memories and showing good quality hiphop from the best in the 90’s. Now the music is more commercial with meaningless lyrics! Big Tigga was the best host in my opinion.
nah hip jop int DEAD coz da GAME DONT STOP!!!!!!!!!!!!
LOVE U GUYS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!xxxxxxxx
Big Mike
damn i missed it. But on a serious note, i think UNDASTUD is right with what he said. mainstream hip hop is dead, all that gangsta/pusher shit, 50 and rick ross and the like rhyme about is dead and gone with, not as many people are still feelin that shit. Rap city could have used a healthy dose of underground MCs because they’re the only ones still making real hip hop, and not that ghostwritten, cookie cutter market formula tracks the big labels force their artists to pump out.
Ghost
BET is crap no wonder, but the true spirt of hip hop will never die.
Drama Diva
RAP CITY WAS THE BEST WITH BIG LEZ & JOE CLAIR. SHE CAME ON THE SHOW WITH A HISTORY OF HIP HOP, AND A CREDIBLE DANCE, CHOREOGRAPHY RESUME & ARTIST RELATIONSHIPS. JOE WAS JUST BUCKWILD WITH IT & STRAIGHT FUNNY. LEZ ASKED GR8 QUESTIONS, AND HELD HER OWN AS AN INTELLIGENT WOMAN. PLUS THEY BOUNCED AROUND THE GLOBE REPPIN’ HIP HOP TO THE FULLEST. THAT’S WHAT I’LL MISS! RAP CITY, R.I.P!
slym fysiq
i’m frum thu durty and i feel sum uv thu shyt ya’ll speakin on, we known for thu clubs round here, not too much of thu lyrical content of hip hop. this younga generation along wit thu media & record co.’s pushes this nu era of hip hop. rap city will 4 eva be n my heart, i got vhs tapes wit classik interviews from all the host, every day after shcool i had to get home and record rap city, like goin to church er sunday, it was a ritual. don’t blame thu souf tho. it’s whut theez kids like now days, but that’s where we come in and school them on what real hip hop iz. it’s up to the 80’s and 90’s gens to keep hip hop movin’, keep it on wax, freestyle battles, grafitti, break dancin’ all that shit bip. Fuk the media and record co.’s, we as thu hip hop gen. gotta keep it movin, 1…….slym
fb916
well said my man
Reggie
Oh no, its the end of days. Creativity is being strangled, mainstream pop threw the killa’ jab. Thank u for the memories Tigger, Clair, Big lez and others. My soul has however been permanently tatooed with rap - thank u Biggie, Wu Tang, Krs1, Kool G rap, Nas, Lil wayne, Kanye, Hova, Run Dmc.
fb916
how u gon say thank u biggie and lil wayne in the same sentence? ur either one way or the other….real classic lyrical hip hop or garbage ass fake ass watered down bullshit like lil wayne…..
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