100 Hip-Hop Heads You MUST Follow on Twitter

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Published on January 13, 2009 with 112 Comments">112 Comments

Twitter, the microblogging platform that allows people to share their thoughts with the world in 140 characters or less, is everyone’s latest web obsession. Contrary to what your grandma said, though, Twitter is more than just a chatterbox of lunch updates. It’s a chatterbox of breakfast, lunch, and dinner updates. Jokes aside, Twitter is a fun way to connect with friends, family, ex-lovers, and online stalkers. And did I mention that it’s the only site where you’ll find Erykah Badu and Amanda Diva debating sexy pics or Count Bass D wondering why no one ever toasts bagel on the outside?

In NO particular order, here are 100 hip-hop people to follow on Twitter:

50 Hip-Hop Artists (MCs, Producers, DJs) to Follow on Twitter

  1. Notorious B.I.G. – He used to read Word Up Magazine
  2. MC Hammer – Owner of the world’s largest collection of parachute pants
  3. ?uestlove – Half-man, half-funkybeard drummer
  4. Amanda Diva – Spandex-wearing soul-rappah
  5. Noreaga – Good MC, bad reggaeton dancer
  6. Jay Electronica – Follow him now or he’ll melt your brain in your sleep!
  7. Eli Porter – Winner of the greatest freestyle battle ever
  8. Sickamore – Famous hip-hop DJ, also addicted to burger
  9. Countbass D – One of the illest producers on the mic
  10. Q-Tip – Nasal-voiced ATCQ frontman
  11. DJ Green Lantern – The Evil Greenius
  12. Wale – First aquatic rapper in history (aka Whale)
  13. MC Lyte – GFOAT
  14. Just Blaze – The Megatron Don of beatsmithing
  15. Donny Goines – If you don’t know his name he’s not working hard enough
  16. Charles Hamilton – The reason Brooklyn tourism hit an all-time high in 2008
  17. Black Milk – Detroit’s newest, funkiest, nastiest, illest, producer
  18. A-Trak – Only dates chicks with mile-long acrylic nails
  19. DJ Semtex – The Explosive One!
  20. Joe Budden – The Internet’s favorite MC
  21. DJ Enuff – Loves music, hates music business
  22. Pacific Division – Victims of The Grown Kid Syndrome
  23. Double-O (Kidz in the Hall) – Cave Spelunker and Tectonic Plate explorer
  24. Naledge (Kidz in the Hall) – Chicago makes smart rappers too, you know
  25. Kid Sister – Feisty femme fatale with a penchant for fancy fingertips
  26. Mick Boogie – Globe-trotting hip-hop DJ
  27. Clinton Sparks – Get Familiar!
  28. Bavu Blakes – It’s Bah-VOO. Say it with me, Bah-VOO!
  29. Illmind – Producer guy from Jersey
  30. Rhymefest – Never met a beat he couldn’t pummel into submission
  31. Khrysis – Producer guy from North Kakalaka
  32. Nina B – BK femcee
  33. Skyzoo – Premier thinks he’s nice, so he must be
  34. 6th Sense – Heavy Obama supporter with a grassroots movement
  35. Yak Ballz – Hip-hop’s first Scifentologist
  36. Murs – Touring machine
  37. Mickey Factz – Bespectacled rapper from Bronx, NY and big fan of Mortal Kombat
  38. Von Pea – Dictionary-toting MC from Brooklynati
  39. Don Cannon – Only slightly less influential than Jimmy Iovine
  40. Cashless – Deadly on the 1′s & 2′s
  41. Jean Grae – Better than your favorite female rapper
  42. Oddisee – Producer guy who happens to be sick on any tempo
  43. Chino XL – Deadly with the pen
  44. B-Real – The Hip-Hop Chuck Norris
  45. Soulbrotha – Had to write a song about Twitter to make this list
  46. Rukus – Deadly on the mic
  47. Phonte – Part time Little Brother MC, part time sanga
  48. Big Pooh – That other guy in Little Brother
  49. John Brown – Undisputed king of Burbology
  50. Shaq – Sometime rapper, sometime baller. Always quotatious

50 Hip-Hop Bloggers to Follow on Twitter:

So, let’s say you’re not looking to stalk your favorite hip-hop artists on Twitter. Instead, you’d like to get at that damn blogger who had the nerve to say that Lil Wayne is better than Rakim. Well, it’s not as easy as typing in their name after twitter.com/name. Case in point: I almost sent a tweet to the user @eskay hoping to reach this guy. Turns out it was actually some tween who hates her boyfriend so much that she totally scrubbed the toilet with his toothbrush. No need to make the same mistake, because I’ve got your back like scoliosis.

In NO particular order, here are 50 hip-hop bloggers to follow on Twitter.

  1. Dallas Penn – DallasPenn.com
  2. Byron Crawford – ByronCrawford.com
  3. Eskay – Nah Right
  4. Miss Info Miss Info TV
  5. Khal – Rock The Dub
  6. Enigmatik – Boo Goo Doo Boom
  7. Nation – Nah Right
  8. Shake – 2 Dope Boyz
  9. Nigel D. – Real Talk NY
  10. William E. Ketchum – Speech Is My Hammer
  11. Clyde Smith – Prohiphop
  12. Elliott Wilson – Rap Radar/Danyelliott
  13. NerdwithSwag – Nerd With Swag
  14. Gyant – SOHH Atlanta
  15. Jay Smooth – Ill Doctrine
  16. Herfection – Herfection.com
  17. John Gotty – The Smoking Section
  18. Dart Adams – Poisonous Paragraphs
  19. Rafi Kam – Oh Word
  20. Matt Sonzala – AustinSurreal
  21. Andrew Barber – Fake Shore Drive
  22. Melissa – The La La Blog
  23. Randy Exclusive – Writer’s Block Media
  24. Low Key – You Heard That New
  25. Wesley Verhoeve – Wesleyverhoeve.com
  26. Zillz – Zillasays.com
  27. Alex Delarge – LiveAGL
  28. Scott Yeti – Woooha Inc
  29. Kid Legend – OnSmash
  30. Meka – 2 Dope Boyz
  31. Ron Mexico – RonMexicoCity
  32. Sumit – HipHopChronicle
  33. Isis Wisdom – Word on the Streets
  34. Carl Cherry – Funky Minds
  35. smokeYYY – That Real Ish
  36. Alvin “Aqua” Blanco – Allhiphop
  37. Blogxilla – Blogxilla.com
  38. HoneySoul – Honeysoul.com
  39. CouchSessions – The Couch Sessions
  40. Peter Rosenberg – Rosenberg Radio
  41. Che Grand – Chegrand
  42. Jeff & Eric Rosenthal – The Real
  43. Joe La Puma – Complexmag.com
  44. IllVibes-DMV – Illvibes-dmv.com
  45. SeanTheROBOT – LupEND Blog
  46. Lynne D Johnson – Lynnedjohnson.com
  47. Contra – The Smoking Section
  48. FWMJ – Rappers I Know
  49. Robbie Ettelson – Unkut
  50. Nick Catchdubs – Catchdubs.com

There are probably hundreds more hip-hop heads on Twitter, so I’m sure I forgot some names. If you don’t see your name on this list, please feel free to drop me a line in the comment box. If you decide to join the Twitterverse, don’t hesitate to follow me.

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Rizoh

Rizoh is the most powerful man in all the lands. He lives in Houston where he earned a BS in Nerf Herding. He's the founder of The Rap Up, the editor of Roc4Life.com, and is in the Grammy-awaiting band Pervertable Disciples.

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  • smalleyez

    really no CheSing. No Small Eyez.

    Aight.haha…laughs.

  • tjloco

    WOW . .props for the effort!!
    twitter.com/tjloco

  • Obese

    twitter.com/Obese – Obese: Itanotherone.com

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  • Sumit

    thanks for the mention

  • Notorious B.I.G.

    word.

  • elijah
  • Contra

    Holy shit, I’m ranked.

  • WillyDope

    Twitter.com/Willydope

  • http://my.rawkus.com/xn/detail/u_allthatsfab Aura

    Rizoh, I’m not a hip hop blogger, but I am a blogger nonetheless so the shameless plug is due.

    twitter.com/fabulousaura

    Oh yeah, you forgot B.O.B. and Asher Roth

    twitter.com/bobatl
    twitter.com/asherroth

  • http://my.rawkus.com/profile/Rizoh Rizoh

    Plug away all you want. I’m probably going to add a separate category for everyone I left out. Damn, we might end up with 1000 names when it’s all said and done.

  • Dunny

    Much props for the list. I was already following half of these people, but there were a lot on the list that i missed.

  • iluvblackwomen

    also follow DJ Ohsokool at 90.3FM WHCR NYC twitter.com/ohsokool

  • Jokesta

    Im 3x hurt… Jokesta and Defsounds never get any love :’(

    @defsounds

  • Rahiem Shabazz

    Wow. I did not make the list and Big Ced did not make the list. Sounds like a conspiracy to me. What you guys think?

    Well, there is always round two. Let’s get it right ladies and gentlemen.

  • Rahiem Shabazz

    Oh, here is my twitter url http://www.twitter.com/rahiemshabazz

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  • Contra

    how dare i not shamelessly plug myself inspite of being in that list.

    http://www.twitter.com/contra_tss

    and the crew

    http://www.twitter.com/tss_crew

  • BlogXilla

    Good looks on the mention!! lol Now i’m off to start following people!! lol

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  • Legend

    yo good looks on the mention my dude. no wonder my twitter friends have been going through the roof.

    i suck at twitter tho. im always mad i missed McDonalds breakfast.
    lol

  • Rhymestyle

    How can RHYMESTYLE be forgotten from that list??? :(

    http://www.twitter.com/rhymestyle

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  • ron mexico

    rowsers. thanks for the look. now i got a whole new list of people to tweet stalk.

    respeck!

  • kim/ohradiogirl

    I like this list – as a start. I like the comments too. Thanks.

    indyhiphopworld.blogspot.com

    twitter.com/indyhiphopworld

  • twitter.com/impose

    good list

  • Dirty Souf Yankee

    twitter.com/dirtysoufyankee

  • Honey

    Thank you for the mention. Much appreciated.

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  • MonkeyBlood

    twitter.com/monkeyblood

  • Combat Jack

    51. dailymathematics.blogspot.com/

  • Be Real

    What happened to following Aeontheace. NY Hip Hop Future.

  • illseed

    You forgot the ill one, illseed and the owners of AllHipHop.com!

    Twitter.com/illseed
    Twitter.com/grouchygreg
    Twitter.com/chuckcreekmur
    Twitter.com/allhiphopcom

    C’mon!

  • halfnice

    I like HipHopQuotables (www.twitter.com/hiphopquotables ). They hit you with verses from classic hiphop songs. Reminds you why hot shit was hot shit.

  • CathrynMarie

    LOL @ the comments – all of these hurt people! I was going to do the same thing on Digiwaxx but opted not to (lazy lol)

    I’ve never exchanged twitts w/ you but allow me to introduce myself, I am The Mayor of Twitter & I put on for my Twiitts :) Funny, yet true! About 10 ppl from your list will co-sign :) lol…

    Naw, real talk, you forgot the big homie, Lil Cease! He’s mad cool & working on a few projects!

    Now back to ME!! :) :

    http://www.digiwaxx.com/blog
    http://www.musicmarketing.blogspot.com

    http://www.twitter.com/cathrynmarie

  • Sonnie_inkstar

    Kool list but we need people on this list thatsTrue Tweeters(people that really tweet all the time)…..Most of the list is Dead on, Good Post

    Twitter.com/sonnie_inkstar

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  • MOOKIE

    twitter.com/iitsmookie

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  • Ryan Maxwell

    Hey guys, make sure you follow me.

    http://www.twitter.com/ryanmaxwellhhk

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  • Oriana lee

    Pt.1-Count Bass D
    Damn right best producer on the mic! lol

    Pt.2-The Countess
    Writer, blogger, lyricist, educator, CBD manager…all ‘lat! “And if you don’t know, now you know.”

    http://www.twitter.com/orianalee

  • Anonymous

    The Mighty Mobility – twitter.com/mightymobility

  • Dayne-Z

    twitter.com/iandaynes

    tea-hop and cake core baby!!

  • Philly

    The lyrics about to be matching the beats.

    This cat is also nice up and coming out of Chicago droppin beats for free to true lyricist.

    http://www.myspace.com/theexceptionalist.

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  • Hiphopslord

    twitter.com/mrjholloway finds the hottest underground hiphop related stuff<<< myspace.com/hiphopslord hottest underground ghost writer and check out his artist profile myspace.com/jonathanjamel as well as his alias myspace.com/jhodoublela twitter.com/jhodoublela dudes the illest underground so i understand why he not there

  • JOnathanJamel

    twitter.com/jonathanjamel best unsigned artist from the midwest myspace.com/jonathanjamel postive rap now gutta rap back in the day i can write anything lets go!! Need a manager need to turn this lyrics to cash lets go!! Need a label!!!

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