No. 50: MC Serch

There were a number of emcees I could have stuck into this last spot without it making too much of a difference, but Michael "MC Serch" Berrin — despite the shit stain on his résumé from that white rapper reality show a few years ago — is probably more deserving than anyone in the pool of also-rans.

What Matt Felling would look like with a high-top fade.

Serch was, as the better half of 3rd Bass, probably the last of the respected white emcees before Marshall Mathers blew up — and with good reason. During the "conscious rap" era, he was able to deliver heavy rhymes with the best of them, even on radio joints like "The Gas Face"...

Black cat is bad luck/bad guys wear black
Must've been a white guy who started all that...
...Don't speak of bleach/bend them to right
Say it was night wayyy before the light...

Serch also deserves credit for helping put on a couple of other emcees ranked ahead of him on this list, including Nas (that's only a spoiler if you're stupid)...as well as offering up arguably the greatest quote of the 1990s:

"Yo! White people are wack. We're kind of embarrassed to be white."

You're the second most influential Caucasian emcee of all time, Serch. No embarrassment there.