Let's have this debate... The best out of 3? Kendrick VS. J. Cole VS. Drake [POLL]

Started by Ricky, May 17, 2021, in Music Add to Reading List

Who's the best?

  1. Kendrick Lamar

    62.5%
  2. Drake

    17.5%
  3. J. Cole

    20.0%
  1. 1999
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    May 18, 2021
    Changed my vote so Drake is now in third place
     
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  2. Marsh
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    Marsh Nobody told you that I'm loco, ese?

    May 18, 2021
    Then listen to the other 2 lmao, you guys always crying about Drake, go support the other 2 lol

    People like Drake cause his music is fun and very replayable. Of course he will outsell the others, even his feats turn into huge hits.
     
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  3. Ricky
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    Ricky Hip-Hop CEO ™

    May 18, 2021
    GOAT
     
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  4. aleeex1923
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    May 18, 2021
    Drake
    J Cole
    Kendrick

    That's just how I see it. When it comes to music I want to listen to and that I enjoy, that's my order.
     
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  5. King of Kings
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    King of Kings Who Dey

    May 18, 2021
    J Cole is the best NBA player of the three
     
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  6. M.I.C.
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    May 18, 2021
    Drake makes harder trap songs than the other 2 could ever dream of :’’’(
     
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  7. hargydon
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    hargydon No investigation, no right to speak

    May 18, 2021
    Could you imagine Drake attempting GKMC or TPAB? Lmfao
     
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    idk i dont listen to that p---- s---
     
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  9. hargydon
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    woah just take it easy man
     
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  10. Lucy
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    Lucy #1

    May 18, 2021
    I think I grew out of all 3
     
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  11. Altereagle416
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    May 18, 2021
    Drake but I'm biased for my Canadian brethren.

    Drake will have a legacy bigger than Jay-Z's. He has had more hits and is only really at the start of the entrepreneurial leg of his career. He just isn't done with music yet but he probably make major moves in the next 10.

    Kendrick is dope af. And has more classics but comparing Drake and Kendrick is comparing apples and oranges. I'll just say this, Drake COULD HAVE gone the underground route, if his deal with Cash Money didn't work. Would he have been as good as Kendrick spitting lyrical miracle bars? Probably not. But I give the edge to Drake for his versatility.

    I like Cole but he's not in the conversation as far as I'm concerned.
     
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    Lol.
     
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  13. Altereagle416
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    Come on, he's already been on the charts longer. He's Billboard's artist of the decade. He made several artists famous using the OVO brand. He's also done significant charity work, owns his own restaurant and is the brand ambassador for the Toronto Raptors.
     
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  14. Step Daddy
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    Drake fan boys always bring up the charts. If you take out thots, simps and soccer mums, Drake isn't that popular.

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  15. Altereagle416
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    Well Drake is literally the most commercial success artist of like the past decade lmao. If I don't bring it up, then what are we judging him on? #Bars? He's not that kind of rapper.

    You're also so wrong about that being Drake's demo. Chances are everyone you know has at least listened to Drake once. Let's say you go to a gym facility to work-out. Chances are if it's in North America then Drake will be on their playlist. I've had both a meathead roommate and a brainiac roommate in Uni. They both listened to Drake.
     
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  16. hargydon
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    May 18, 2021
    Casual music listeners listen to Drake because he’s a pop star, this is nothing new.

    What do you mean by commercial success? Because Eminem is the best selling rapper of the 2 concluded decades of the 2000s. But this shouldn’t even be part of the discussion when it comes to artistry, it’s irrelevant.
     
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  17. Altereagle416
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    Yes, and that’s exactly why Eminem is in the GOAT discussion.

    Why are we acting like commercial success doesn’t matter? It does. It’s not the sole thing to base an artist on but ignoring an artist’s commercial success which is literally a performance metric doesn’t make any sense.
     
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  18. hargydon
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    It mattered to me when I was a teenager only confined to the mainstream but with streaming opening doors to a plethora of underground & for the most part superior artists, along with my music taste maturing — the numbers game becomes more & more irrelevant to me as time goes on. It just feels like a useless metric as it doesn’t apply to the music itself.
     
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    Now with streaming Drake has certified 100 million more records sold than Em. Its a weird system but it places him above every other artist ever. I'm not sure why it's not referenced more
     
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    Ah okay. The streaming metrics are so confusing but I don’t think there’s really an accurate comparative solution to sales as consumption is in effect immeasurable now with the technological capabilities of streaming. Especially when someone will stream an album they don’t like but 99% of the time wouldn’t have done the same when it was purchase only, then there’s radios, platform-made-playlist shuffles etc.

    All this does is blur the lines further when it comes to the numbers making it even more irrelevant.
     
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