52 Must-Follow Hiphop Industry People on Twitter

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

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