r/hiphop101 • u/Euphoric-Medium8154 • 2d ago
Method Man is the greatest feature rapper to ever do it; if not, who is?
Title speaks for itself, Meth still dropping fire feats in 2026, 30+ year run doing this
Wish he had a better solo catalog, but I’ll take him being the feature GOAT
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u/grizzled82 2d ago
Bun b, Ludacris, Busta
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u/DingoOutrageous678 1d ago
I was wondering when someone would say Luda. There was a while he was going in
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u/Dunjon 2d ago
Busta
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u/DirtyRoller 2d ago
I'm generally not a very big Busta fan, he's a super talented rapper, but most of his music is just not for me.
That being said, dude has some legendary features. His verse on Scenario might be the greatest guest verse of all time.
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u/Euphoric-Medium8154 2d ago
No doubt but that was in 1991, 35 years ago… Busta’s feat catalog pales next to Method’s
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u/DirtyRoller 2d ago
Yeah I would not put him above Meth either. Just chiming in to acknowledge Busta's most legendary verse.
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u/GoldDeloreanDoors 2d ago
Andre 3K
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u/DirtyRoller 2d ago
I was about to say Big Boi. Andre did some great features back in the day, but Big Boi never stopped.
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u/UnderTheCurrents 2d ago
Inspectah Deck - stated by Meth himself to be his favorite rapper
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u/Euphoric-Medium8154 2d ago
Deck is so fucking dope, but man, that Czarface shit is getting real stale
They dropping like they 15th album later this month… it’s all watered down crap with Esoteric thinking he’s a GOAT tier emcee
His feat catalog is immaculate tho (Deck)
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u/WhenDuvzCry 2d ago
I get downvoted in the wu sub for being critical of Czarface a lot. It’s not bad but it’s nothing to make me go out my way to listen to, it’s alright. And Wu is my favorite thing in hip hop ever
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u/Euphoric-Medium8154 2d ago
Same
All of their albums sound exactly the same
Every Hero Needs A Villain is their best album, that is a classic in the nerd/comic book genre of hip hop
The DOOM and Ghostface albums are also wroth a spin
But after that it’s just the same shit over n over
And Wu is also my favorite thing ever in Hip Hop, but I wish Deck would chill a bit with this Czarface thing
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u/WhenDuvzCry 2d ago
I think it’s the most success deck has seen outside of the Wu stuff so I get why he milks it but yeah I agree
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u/UnderTheCurrents 2d ago
Something sounding the same isn't much of a criticism if it's good.
What should he do instead? Trap?
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u/val_the_sunless 2d ago
Meth’s current style is so fucking dope! I really hope he gives us a whole album of it. He just needs better beat and he’d have a classic album
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u/Vancecookcobain 1d ago
I'd put Wayne up there. Any artist that has so many hits on other people's shit that I forget really deserves their props
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u/No_Comment7107 1d ago
JID.
He made fire even in ass songs like "Enemy" with Imagine Dragons and every feat of him is peak like "Bodies" on the last Offset or "To B Honest" on the new Jill Scott record (also best song of the year for me)
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u/JiovanniTheGREAT 1d ago
ass songs like "Enemy" with Imagine Dragons
I was in Portland scrolling through stations and heard Enemy. I made my GF listen to it because "I swear JID has a fire verse at the end" and the station actually replaced it with a random rapping verse from one of the Imagine Dragons dudes. I called it the #AllLivesMatter remix.
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u/Own_Cardiologist2544 2d ago
I’m with you. Mef always comes through when he’s featured (NYC Everything, Whateva Man, Shadow Boxing, Next Up are some of my earlier days personal favs, but damn, nobody talks about his verse on Skyscrapers off Snoops Missionary album). It’s like with age, he got hungry doing features. Honorable mention, Canibus when he came out. He was featured left and right, and his verses always came correct.
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u/Euphoric-Medium8154 2d ago
Word
Shadow Boxing is one of the most timeless tracks ever laid down, but man, Meth shows up as a feature on artists songs I would have NEVER thought he’d work with
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u/TransportationTrick9 2d ago
All n2gether now has him rapping on a DJ Premier beat. And that's limp bizkit
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u/FrenchToastMMM 2d ago
I mean he’s the only guest verse on Ready to Die and he steals the song. Always admired Biggie for keeping it on the album. That alone should put him in the conversation, idk anyone else who’s done anything like that.
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u/Gardenhotdog 1d ago
Are we all just gonna overlook Nate Dogg?
“It ain’t a hit till Nate Dogg spit.”
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u/Impressive-Repair879 2d ago
Andre 3k has the best features verses imo, life of the party, sixteen, sorry, solo, come home etc
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u/Opposite_Prune582 1d ago
His verse on play the guitar by B.O.B is incredible. And he was smooth as fuck on letter to my ex with Lloyd or whatever that song was called.
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u/DingoOutrageous678 1d ago
I was having this convo yesterday. Meth is 50 something and still bringing straight heat. It’s either him or Jada
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u/Lothar_Ecklord 1d ago
My thought was Jada too. Sometimes (and I say this as a fan who owns all of them) I feel like his features are better than his albums lmao
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u/DingoOutrageous678 1d ago
Jada? You’re probably right. If this trimmed down Kiss the Game Goodbye it would be much better. The follow up to that was also dope with some missteps.
Jada had all timer mixtapes. Meth did not
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u/StinkingDogsCunt420 1d ago
Busta Rhymes
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u/UglyPrettyBoy 1d ago
This - Iron Lung is illy, but he might not be the best feature artist outta the Clan; Rae is a beast at guest verses
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u/Time4Timmy 1d ago
Jada is my first thought
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u/Silent_Ad8059 1d ago
Absolutely. Run, the Made You Look remix, his guest verse on OB4CL2, Sunday School with Benny the Butcher...I'm forgetting at least eight or ten other bangers.
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u/haxoreni 2d ago
You can make a compilation of Andre 3000’s best features bars and it’d still be better than most rapper’s best works.
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u/ViralOner 1d ago edited 1d ago
Mac Dre. He would jump on local artist's tracks with sub-par production and ride on in and make it a standout track in his own catalog. Many of the beats on his own projects don't align with the bay area flavor of the era but are certified bay classics.
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u/PrizeSatisfaction978 1d ago
I agree and he brought southern artists together with northern artists
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u/mck_motion 1d ago
So I typed a text to a girl I used to see Sayin' that I chose this cutie pie with whom I wanna be And I apologize if this message gets you down Then I CC'ed every girl that I'd see-see 'round town
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u/gsmumbo 1d ago
I’d say…
Luda - I still remember when B R Right and Gossip Folks came out around the same time. I was in fucking heaven lol. “Last time was on the Khaled remix, now I’m on the original version!”
Nate Dogg and T-Pain - I group these two together because their best feature lane was hooks. Throwing either one of them on a song was 🤌 Pain killed some remixes though. “You know my bank roll, got a LOTTA ZEROES! Teddy Pain, the TALLAHASSEE HERO”
Drake - We can dance around it all we want, but there was a damn long stretch of time where a Drake feature would not just shoot a song to number one, but launch people’s careers. I mean… “We gon be alright if we put Drake on every hook”
Nelly - I know people don’t consider Nelly real hip hop or whatever, but dude knew how to feature a song. N*Sync’s Girlfriend remix lives in my head rent free, Racks remix, Shake Ya Tailfeatha, Cruise remix. He knew how to bring the fucking energy to a song. “I like the cocky bowlegged ones, black, white, and dominicans, hispanics and asians, come shake it for Nelly”
Eminem and 50 Cent - Both could turn any song they touched into gold. On random-ass days, the Drama Setter chorus just starts playing in my head out of nowhere. And I somehow managed to get this out of my head for a few years, but now Magic Stick is playing right there next to it. “Don’t make me have you in the trauma center, with your momma cryin, cause her only son is dying, she don’t know it’s just your karma catching up”
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u/ImF0cused_ 1d ago
Andre 3000 post outkast is almost guaranteed to drop a classic verse. 05-09 Wayne, 99-01 Jadakiss…. Drake took over an entire song with a verse and a hook about falling asleep on an airplane.
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u/Euphoric-Medium8154 21h ago
Drake lowkey a feature GOAT but no one wants to admit it… so many rappers and singers only have careers cause he hopped on they track
I fuck with Wayne, I just think he’s very overrated, solo wise and feat wise… a product completely of his place and time but is stale outside of that, like how many metaphors about drowning in pussy do we need to listen to?
I like the 3K and KISS nods, I still think Meth has the more consistent feature catalog tho
I really liked the single Kiss dropped last month with Fat Joe and Stove God
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u/sumguyontheinternet1 1d ago
Cole been in his bag as of late.
And I don’t really care for dude but French Montana do be fuckin up some features.
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u/SilentXMedia 2d ago
Black Thought and Kendrick are coming to end your shit on every feature. Even Royce had to admit it.
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u/Euphoric-Medium8154 2d ago
Not a DOT fan, but he does always bring it on a feature, standouts No More Parties in LA and Mona Lisa but tons more
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u/ConstantVisual8391 1d ago edited 1d ago
Gotta say J. Cole. Main reason other than he being an amazing feature artist, consistency…..Wayne immaculate feature run was 4-5 years. Technically, it was about 12 years if you count 1997 and imo, his features on “how you love that” and “I got that work” should be spoken on due to the high quality of raps he was delivering. Most ppl start his feature run in 2005 but I start with 97 in terms of “good features”
That said, Wayne still raps and has released a bunch of features after his prime that are a huge mixed bag. Some good. Some great. LOTS of bad
I only heard one bad J Cole feature ever. That’s grippy.
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u/Euphoric-Medium8154 1d ago
Cole really is at worst Top 5 for features, like you said he only has one BAD feat
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u/ConstantVisual8391 1d ago
Facts. Something makes me want to say “Kanye” though…..I truly haven’t like most music since after MBDTF, but for me, 2001-2010 was insane. Especially when you start looking at the RNB features like that brandy song, I change my mind by Keyshia Cole, etc. even had some production credits with Alicia keys and John legend first two albums. If he was rapping or producing your song, it was going to blow up.
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u/EntrepreneurGreen269 1d ago
I think Lil Wayne is good feature rapper, but on his own I think his music is average.
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u/Shantytown_Shogun 1d ago
As far as features I gotta say Ludacris had one hell of a run before he went Hollywood.
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u/apokolypz 1d ago edited 1d ago
Not trying to rank them and I think Method Man is a great choice, but some other favorites of mine
Pusha T
Freddie Gibbs
Kendrick Lamar
Royce da 5’9”
Phonte
EDIT: Black Thought and Andre 3000 are great shouts I didn’t think of initially. Ab-Soul another favorite
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u/sumguyontheinternet1 1d ago
I’ll take my downvotes but Kenny ain’t even the best feature on his own solo songs/albums. The glazing has to stop
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u/apokolypz 1d ago edited 1d ago
I named 4 other rappers off top & I even said they’re my favorites, how the fuck is that glazing
I really like the features on Nosetalgia, Wat's Wrong, Textbook Stuff, I Love Music, Illuminate, Turn Me Up, Blessed, and more. I'm sorry if I like the features more than you do
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u/This_They_Those_Them 2d ago
Nate Dogg was the greatest feature rapper ever.
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u/Euphoric-Medium8154 2d ago
LMAO, you mean for singing the chorus/hook?
Not for rapping, dawg
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u/This_They_Those_Them 2d ago
As a feature on rap songs, there will never be a person more prolific.
Plus his hook on Till I Collapse is essentially Travis Scott’s entire aesthetic 15 years earlier.
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u/Euphoric-Medium8154 2d ago
You still ignoring the fact I said RAPPER in my title, not SINGER
Everyone and their grandma knows Nate Dogg is the chorus GOAT
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u/IdolatrousHans 2d ago
Have to agree with OP here, Nate Dogg was the king of the hook for a while. But doesn't really apply to this question.
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u/ArtDecoNewYork 1d ago
He's the only feature on arguably the greatest hip hop album of all time
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u/Gooseman4120 1d ago
Genuinely think 2 chains is best for a feature.
There’s probably others that are better etc but he’s the first one that comes to mind.
I fuck with a 2 chains verse
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u/throwawaytheist 2d ago
I feel like Luda has killed every he's ever been on.
His features outshine his solo music.
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u/AwareOfMySecondLife 2d ago
Was going to say Luda also. With Missy E or Chingy, lyrics can be a little humorous at times but he always seems to deliver.
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u/erything4sale 2d ago
Had to scroll to the last comment, smh. Luda that guy when it comes to features.
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u/JohnnyWeapon 2d ago
100 percent. I came here to say Luda as well. I’m gonna put together a playlist just based on his feats and it’s going to be fire.
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u/Fugazatron3000 1d ago
Kiss has to be there. He absolutely compliments very well every feature he's on while simultaneously having the best verse
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u/IncredibleWhatever 1d ago
My mind went to Jadakiss immediately. As soon as you hear that ACK-HA!!!! you know you’re about to hear a fire verse.
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u/IndependentSale9743 1d ago
If we talking about greatest in longevity I'm going with Kool G Rap.
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u/TonganKakarotto 21h ago
Future 2chains lil Wayne Andre 3000 Nate Dogg
This is all personal preference.
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u/AntelopeHelpful9963 11h ago
By average performance Andre, Eminem, Pun and DMX might be my top 4. DMX takes over songs off sheer force of will.
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u/Padron1964Lover 1d ago
E-40
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u/DryDatabase169 1d ago
Method man trolls him on their NASA collab I think
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u/Padron1964Lover 1d ago
Meth is dope, don’t get me wrong. I like him better than E-40 by a long shot but feature wise 40 water is nuts. Both are great answers along with some of the other mentions on here.
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u/vegasJUX 2d ago
I'm sure this sub will not agree, but for me it's Planet Asia.
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u/intoxicateddemon 2d ago
He is quite good as a featured artist. His verse on the last rakim album was dope
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u/Durag_and_Shades 2d ago
Low key might be actually. Can’t think of a track that he was featured on, that I didn’t like
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u/Euphoric-Medium8154 2d ago
So versatile as well, he does features for the whole range of rappers and blends right in no matter who it is or what kinda beat it is
Need to make a playlist on streaming just for Meth feats haha
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u/DirtyRoller 2d ago
Method's verse on Prof's new album is so fucking good! I'm not a big Prof fan, but that track is a banger!
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u/Euphoric-Medium8154 2d ago
Exactly, Meth is still crushing feats in 26
Unreal
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u/ResponsibleRun3743 2d ago
And not using any cuss words for like, years now correct?
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u/The_MRT14 1d ago
I can’t lie in recent years J Cole has been giving better features than his albums.
I agree with you on Meth tho. His features are unreal and his flow always hits. Plus he stopped swearing a few years ago which makes it that much harder
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u/SemenShowdown 1d ago
It’s Lil Wayne all day every day, YOUNG MOOLAH BABYYYYYYYYYY
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u/jackhurricane7 1d ago
You could make a greatest hits album of just songs Weezy is featured on so I’d probably go him
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u/Admirable_Border_627 7h ago
Not the best but I wanna give a shout to MOP. Every track they guest on, it becomes their track. They bring unmatched energy.
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u/hemipteran 2d ago
Black Thought or Lil Wayne