Sep 10, 2015

this is why we can't have nice things

 

Sep 10, 2015

Prime Eminem obviously.

No one else was able to constantly release fire verse after fire verse other than prime Eminem and Kendrick today.

You knew when you heard a new eminem song back then, that his verse was going to be amazing and the same stands for Kendrick today.
His verses on Compton, Classic Man, it's all f---ing flames and I have a feeling it's only going to get better. He can do no wrong.

If he died today, I would name Kendrick THE GOAT.

 

Sep 10, 2015

it's so maddeningly stupid to say that big and pac are rated so highly because they're dead. bruh, do you know how many dead rappers there are? do you know how many of them were genuinely great, but aren't fixtures in greatest-of-all-time discussions? pac and big are there because they deserve to be, and if you disagree you're setting out to be a massive contrarian or you're not well-versed in their catalogs.

 

Sep 10, 2015

don't worry it is WPG-approved so you can like it without feeling shame

 

Sep 10, 2015

no, you dolt, there's a huge gap between "not liking" someone and thinking they're the greatest rapper of all time two albums into their career. do you have any concept of how much brilliant rap music there is out there? there are probably forty rappers whose first two albums are, on the whole, better than kendrick's, and that's to say nothing of those who outpace him because of the volume of great work they put out.

there is, both because it's laughably premature and because it's ill-informed. do you really think final has given scarface the attention he deserves? kool keith? redman? boosie? e-40? come on.

 

Sep 10, 2015

Ya'll underrating the quality Biggie's two albums combined

Ya'll gonna act like Life After Death isn't the best hip hop double-disc of all time

 

Sep 10, 2015

 

Sep 10, 2015

Now that I'm thinking about it... imagine if we had a prime Eminem ft Kendrick song.

Would my brain even compute? It would be like renegade had a baby and that baby turned into Jesus.

 

Sep 10, 2015

WPG is my hero

f--- Kendrick

 

Sep 10, 2015

i was four years old when it came out, i have memories tied to albums that came out 2003 and on. try again.

 

Sep 10, 2015

Look mate, this is getting boring repeating myself time after f---ing time. I'm sorry if I may have offended you but just take some time to look at my side of the argument.
The question put forward is "If Kendrick died NOW who would he compare to?"
And because he's released two albums which IN MY OPINION are as good as BIGs two, if Kendrick released nothing else (because he'd be dead) and have no opportunity to drop off, his legacy would compare.
That's all I'm trying to say, it's a fair argument and this s--- storm is so unnecessary.

 

Sep 10, 2015

Apparently BIG's two albums don't count as a career because he got shot, but Kendrick's two albums certify him as top 3 already.

 

Sep 10, 2015

lmfao so people who've sat with biggie's music for over 15 years are still overhyping it, and you're in the right calling Kendrick top 3 of all time?

yeah f---in okay

 

Sep 10, 2015

i LOVE good kid, m.A.A.d. city. "money trees" and "maad city" would both be in my top 50 songs from this decade so far. it's a great achievement, better than all but five or so albums that have come out since the start of 2010. but Ready To Die and Life After Death are like Illmatic: they're so undeniable, so masterful that two decades later, they're still being stripped for parts and repurposed by even the best rappers in the world. in fact, big is imitated more than nas ever was. Ready To Die is one of the ten saddest rap albums ever made, but also one of the ten meanest, and maybe one of the ten funniest. Life After Death is, along with Blueprint, the best album ever made about being a rap star, and the only double-disc retail album by a solo rapper that justifies its length. it might be the best album of all time--when's the last time you really sat with "n----s bleed" or "long kiss goodnight" or "kick in the door" or "i gotta story to tell" or "my downfall" or "somebody's gotta die"?

 

Sep 10, 2015

let's be real: as great as good kid is, it's not as good as either big album.

 

Sep 10, 2015

Have you listened to All Eyez On Me, Me Against The World, Ready to Die and Life after Death?

 

Sep 10, 2015

Their stuff still sounds fresh to my ears. And would do extremely well in this era imo.

 

Sep 10, 2015

the majority of this forum voted mmlp2 the superior album to illmatic.

 

Sep 10, 2015

how about you "settle down" calling a guy with one great album the best rapper to ever live.