Lyrically, these hit the hardest to me: Papercut In the End Dedicated Based on just how cool the flow is/delivery, but the lyrics are either political or just him bragging about himself: Wretches All for Nothing Lost in the Echo (bridge) WFTE Bridge
In no order: Reading My Eyes When They Come For Me Forgotten High Voltage Keys to the Kingdom Papercut Hands Held High Bleed it Out Lost in the Echo All for Nothing Runaway A Place for My Head Part of Me Dedicated Slip Wretches and Kings Don't worry, I know that's more than ten, Mike's just too good!
Mike's rapping has been so "meh" for me that I honestly can't even make a top 5 let alone top 10. The only song I thought he was legitimately good in was WTCFM. Dedicated and Lost in the Echo were nice too. Those are really the only ones I like.
In terms of technicality, the rap of WTCFM isn't anything special. Anyone ever feel like Mike is holding back lately for making great raps instead of ok ones? I mean this is even including Fort Minor. It seems he doesn't aim to show much technical proficiency in his rapping, look at his verses in "All For Nothing" or "Keys To The Kingdom", hell over his career in LP there aren't that many great raps he's done when you compare it to some of the best raps out there. Rapping is so much more than just rhyming line after line, especially nowadays. It's about how many rhymes you can fit in a bar and where you can fit them, how you make it flow, how creative you can be with different words and making vowels rhyme together too. For me Until It Breaks, Reading My Eyes, Stick N' Move & LP demos like Esaul, Untitled showcase some of his best rapping. But his greatest rap I've heard has to be at the end of "And One", so creative. The rhyming pattern is quite unpredictable and the lyrics are expressed in a poetic manner. Why doesn't he write more like this? I feel like he has that potential but holds back or doesn't bother for some reason.