Jigga Tops The List

NEW YORK (Spin Magazine) - Rapper Jay-Z has topped the list of Spin Magazines�s 40 most important artists in music today.

In the issue that features the list, they say that Jay-Z having released an album and staging a sellout tour in the weeks following September 11, that he �showed his versatility in other ways: He moved his Roc-a-Fella imprint into fashion and movies and kept his street wit sharp in a rhyme war with Mobb Deep and Nas.�

The music magazine says the artists that are chosen for this list are making some of the freshest most challenging music of the past few years.

Jay-Z is followed by musicians Radiohead, Eminem, U2 and System Of A Down who round out the top five.
Also on Spin�s list are Creed who ranked 19th, Canadian Nelly Furtado came in at 20, Slipknot was 33rd and Blink-182 came in right being in 34th place.