Eminem Eminem (Prime) Vs Kanye West

Started by Bman, Sep 11, 2015, in Eminem Add to Reading List

Who's better?

  1. Eminem

    40 vote(s)
    70.2%
  2. Kanye West

    17 vote(s)
    29.8%
  1. Groovy Tony
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    Sep 12, 2015
    *sees name is artYe*

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  2. Enigma
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    Enigma Civil liberties > Police safety

    Sep 12, 2015
    Lol.... Yeah but really though my point stands. Rappers & (music) artists are the same thing.
     
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  3. Bman
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    Sep 12, 2015
    What about battle rappers though? Not really music. Battling is a sport.
     
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  4. Enigma
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    Sep 12, 2015
    Battling is a completely different form of rapping. We aren't talking about battle rappers here though, we are talking about two rap artists.
     
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  5. Groovy Tony
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    Sep 12, 2015
    "Rap is like...it's my art" - the great white hope
    "Rap is a sport....." - the great white hope
     
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  6. TimmyT
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    Sep 12, 2015
    well, i interpreted this thread as who was better at their peak. to me, that's eminem. i think he was one of the best ever during his prime.

    if you're saying kanye has a better collection of albums when all their albums are taken into account, i'm OK with that. but discographies aren't the best way to compare artists because some artists have two albums and others have 4454545 albums.

    i mean s--- prince has 30 albums and fell off years ago, but during the 80's he was one of the best artists i've ever heard regardless of genre
     
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  7. Wreckless
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    What a dumb question. Eminem of course.

    And Yeezus is wack
     
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  8. Bman
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    Why? How? Yeezus is great.
     
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  9. ArthurDW
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    You didn't understand what I meant.
    A rapper is a music artist, but music artist is much more large than a rapper. Rap is a category of music. The best rap artist means the one who is a rapper but makes the best music. (So that means flow+ text+ message+ beats+ production+ innovation) while the best rapper it's the one who has the best flow+ text+ message.

    English isn't my language so I know I'm not very clear sometimes.
     
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  10. Enigma
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    I mean Kanye is a better song writer than Eminem in 2015. He's more charasmatic, interesting, h---, even more controversial & that's supposed to be apart of Em's whole persona. Kanye is a better rapper than Eminem right now, no matter which way you try to look at it.
     
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  11. ArthurDW
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    Well, in that case we have exactly the same opinion tough we expressed it in different ways.

    But eminem in his prime was purely on a rap level (flow+ text) better than Kanye ever was, and when you add the fact that Kanye used ghostwriters the biggest part if his career, I think there is no denying to that.
     
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  12. spurs19
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    Kanye isnt a better writer than Em lol, why would he need ghostwriters.

    Stan
    SFTM
    Lose Yourself
    8 Mile
    Way I Am

    The list can go on but Kanye is nowhere that level of writing ability
     
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    Em in his Prime was probably the best Rap Artist of all time! Why?
    SSLP
    MMLP
    TES
    8 Mile Soundtrack
     
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    But Now Kanye > Em
     
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    Sep 13, 2015
    lol songwriter

    lol better rapper
     
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    :bookah:
     
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    :wtf2wtf::adaddsa:
     
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  18. Enigma
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    Yes, Kanye is a better song writer. Kanye doesn't write corny/cliche songs like Guts Over Fear over & over again.
     
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  19. spurs19
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    I think you are unfamiillar with Eminems Prime, GOF was last year for a soundtrack
     
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  20. Enigma
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    Enigma Civil liberties > Police safety

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    No. I said Kanye was a better song writer than Eminem now. @int quoted me & said "lol" as if that wasn't true or something & that's why I referred to Guts Over Fear. I'm not talking about 99-03 Eminem, I'm talking about now.
     
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