The bigger they are, the harder they fall, and no one sits higher than a rapper at the top of his (or her) game. But what might seem like an endless joyride can come crashing down at any time, due to label issues or changing tastes, even something as trivial as a dumb outfit.

While these acts may be gone, they will never be forgotten; we celebrate their peaks and, when it comes to valleys, we reminisce over them. ItsTheReal’s Eric and Jeff Rosenthal picked up all of the broken pieces for This list of The 30 Worst Fall-Offs in Rap History.

  1. MC Hammer
  2. Ja Rule
  3. Death Row
  4. Nelly
  5. Master P
  6. DMX
  7. Ice Cube
  8. Big Daddy Kane
  9. LL Cool J
  10. Eazy-E
  11. A Tribe Called Quest
  12. Raekwon
  13. KRS-One
  14. Cypress Hill
  15. Vanilla Ice
  16. Slick Rick
  17. EPMD
  18. Foxy Brown
  19. Black Sheep
  20. Lil Kim
  21. Young Buck
  22. House Of Pain
  23. Shyne
  24. Onyx
  25. Boot Camp Click
  26. The Pharcyde
  27. Canibus
  28. Kool Keith
  29. Jungle Brother
  30. Charles Hamilton