Toppa Top 10: Ten MCs You Never Knew Were Jamaican

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July 24, 2012


Canibus

Hard to imagine these days, but 15 years ago right this moment Canibus was doing nothing but “eat eat eat eat[ing] MCs,” to borrow some words from Mike Tyson. The once-acclaimed freestyle MC and LL Cool J foe’s fall was swift, and nowadays his name only seems to come up in the context of some gaffe, or other. Rarely does anyone note his Jamaican birth.