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I don't think rap is in a place where you can properly judge and come to a solid conclusion.
Kendrick Lamar woulda fell thru the cracks in the 90s been mentioned amongst Del and the pharcyde at best. I'm not saying that to advocate 90s hip hop over current stuff. I say that to bring a point that the era of "proving you're the nicest" has been replaced with an era of needing hot hooks, beats, club anthems, twitter followers.
People move different and make different music now.
I really believe if the point was to jump on a track and KILL IT. Drake would be alot more memorable than all these other upcomers and a few older cats...wait, that's happened a few times. But his catalog is so smothered in sappy shyt and music for girls that his lyrics aren't put to the forefront often. I say the same about J. Cole. "Who Dat" was classic, but prolly the only song I ever heard him snap on, so that coulda been a 1 time thing, ghostwriter, whatever, lol. Kanye has to be considered too, especially after coming with harder verses than Jay on most of their album together.
But we live in a current time when soon as someone aiight come around spittin every song(cause they have no other lane)they get overcreditted by folk oversearching for lyricism.
Kendrick Lamar woulda fell thru the cracks in the 90s been mentioned amongst Del and the pharcyde at best. I'm not saying that to advocate 90s hip hop over current stuff. I say that to bring a point that the era of "proving you're the nicest" has been replaced with an era of needing hot hooks, beats, club anthems, twitter followers.
People move different and make different music now.
I really believe if the point was to jump on a track and KILL IT. Drake would be alot more memorable than all these other upcomers and a few older cats...wait, that's happened a few times. But his catalog is so smothered in sappy shyt and music for girls that his lyrics aren't put to the forefront often. I say the same about J. Cole. "Who Dat" was classic, but prolly the only song I ever heard him snap on, so that coulda been a 1 time thing, ghostwriter, whatever, lol. Kanye has to be considered too, especially after coming with harder verses than Jay on most of their album together.
But we live in a current time when soon as someone aiight come around spittin every song(cause they have no other lane)they get overcreditted by folk oversearching for lyricism.
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