Guess the Rapper from Just One Photo (Part 1)

[A] The Notorious B.I.G. | Brooklyn's finest who painted street tales in two albums before bullets silenced the king at 24.

[D] Kendrick Lamar | Compton's prophet with a Pulitzer Prize—"DAMN." if hip-hop needed validation, K-Dot delivered it.

[A] Tupac | Ballerina-trained revolutionary who wrote "Dear Mama" with one hand and threw middle fingers with the other.

[B] Eminem | Trailer park kid who became rap's best-selling artist—Mom's spaghetti and controversy for breakfast.

[B] Nas | Queensbridge poet who dropped "Illmatic" at 20 and spent 30 years trying to top perfection.

[B] Dr. Dre | From N.W.A to Beats by Dre—the perfectionist who takes six years between albums and makes billions between beats.

[A] Ice Cube | Straight outta Compton to family comedies—the gangsta rapper your kids know from "Are We There Yet?"

[B] André 3000 | OutKast's alien who apologized to Ms. Jackson and played flute on random street corners for spiritual healing.

[A] Snoop Dogg | Long Beach's uncle who went from Crip walking to cooking with Martha Stewart—gin and juice to wine and dine.

[C] JAY-Z | From selling crack to selling Ace of Spades—Brooklyn's billionaire who made business moves sound like poetry.

[A] Kanye West | Chicago's bipolar genius who made soul samples cool, then made everything weird, then made Yeezys worth thousands.

[C] J. Cole | North Carolina's philosopher who went platinum with no features and hoop dreams on the side.

[A] Lil Wayne | Started at 12 with Cash Money, now has more punchlines than a comedy special and face tattoos as receipts.

[A] Rakim | The God MC who invented internal rhymes when everyone else was still ending sentences with "cat" and "hat."

[C] 50 Cent | Nine bullets couldn't stop him, Vitamin Water made him rich, and Instagram beefs keep him relevant.

[D] Eazy-E | 5'3" of Compton rage who funded N.W.A with drug money and died at 30, leaving gangsta rap's blueprint.

[B] Method Man | Wu-Tang's heartthrob who conquered rap, acted with Redman, and still looks 25 at 50.

[A] DMX | Dark Man X barked his way to five consecutive number-one albums, then fought demons louder than his ad-libs.

[C] Big L | Harlem's MVP murdered at 24—"Put It On" proved punchline rap peaked in '95 before we knew what we lost.

[D] Ghostface Killah | Tony Starks before Marvel—Wu-Tang's storyteller who raps in run-on sentences that somehow make perfect sense.

[D] Redman | Newark's Funk Doctor who rolled the best blunts and made being dusty look fly—"How High" literally.

[B] MF Doom | Your favorite rapper's favorite rapper—metal mask, cartoon samples, and bars that require a dictionary.

[C] RZA | Bobby Digital architected Wu-Tang's sound from a basement with kung-fu movies and dusty soul records.

[D] A$AP Rocky | Harlem's pretty boy who made Houston's sound fashionable and dated Rihanna—living the actual dream.

[C] Drake | Wheelchair Jimmy became the 6 God—singing about feelings while breaking Billboard records and texting teenagers.

[B] Big Pun | 700 pounds of Puerto Rican power—first Latino solo rapper to go platinum, gone at 28 from his own weight.

[C] Raekwon | The Chef who cooked "Only Built 4 Cuban Linx"—purple tape became Wu-Tang's "Scarface" on wax.

[B] Scarface | Houston's depressed genius from Geto Boys who made mental health struggles sound harder than any gangsta tale.

[D] Busta Rhymes | Flipmode Squad's hurricane—raps fast enough to break sound barriers and animated enough to power cities.

[D] Lauryn Hill | Fugees' star who dropped one perfect solo album, then disappeared to dodge taxes and save her sanity.