A question I ask my friends a lot is to list the top five greatest rappers (dead or alive). The only stipulation is that Tupac and B.I.G. go without saying. Most of the lists, including mine, start with Jay-Z and Lil Wayne at the top, and then it stays to about 10 different rappers that people list.

The other night I posed two different questions to my peers: Who are the most overrated rappers and who are the most underrated?

Here are some of both:

OVERRATED

Flo-Rida - People LOOOOOVVVVVEEEEEE him, and I just don't get it. Have you heard any of his songs? He's not rapping. He's kinda singing or harmonizing or something. I don't know what he's doing, but whatever it is, it actually made me second guess T-Pain AND Timbaland. And this boy is huge. He looks like he's been hitting the gym with Dr. Dre. Don't you think he should be rapping instead of singing his lyrics? Yes, he does have a song with Lil Wayne, and IT’S WACK, TOO! Except Wayne's part. He wrecks.

T.I. - Why is he the King? Because Lil Jon had him on his song “Grand Finale” with rappers like Nas, Bun B, and Ice Cube? Because Pimp C agreed with him? Sweet Jones said no one else said it yet, so that makes T.I. King. So the King of the South is determined the same way you get the front seat?

Mike Jones - You can play a drinking game with any Mike Jones CD and get completely WASTED. Every time he gives you his telephone number, take a drink. Every time he shouts out Ice Age and Rap-A-Lot, take a drink. Every time he asks “who?” tells you when his CD's coming out, or repeats the same line one right after another, then one more time, take a drink. If you took his album, “Who Is Mike Jones?” and took out everything he repeated, this CD would be three minutes long.

Jay-Z- HA! Just playin.

UNDERRATED

Jadakiss - Wayne asked him to just do the chorus on “Poppin' Bottles.” You must be at least a little hot to have arguably the best rapper alive ask you to jump on his chorus. He's the only GOOD rapper out of D-Block. Jada's “Ms. Jackson” won the 50 battle for me.

Bow Wow - THE FUTURE OF RAP! Have I said that already? Wait until his next CD. I don't know anything about it, but I just feel like the lyrical contents are going to be outrageous.

Tyga - Skater rap is blowing up. You got no choice but to jump on it. He killed FOB's “Arms Race” remix, freestyled over “Hey There Delilah” and his first single off “No Introduction” (due out June 10), “Coconut Juice,” is about to be the hot banger of the summer. And, I'm pretty sure he's a Spurs fan.