Aug 31, 2020

He’s pretty underground so idk if any of you have heard about him but NAV

 

Aug 30, 2020

Kanye West

 

Aug 31, 2020

amen brother. the most complex, technicalest, downright umpeccable emcee out there. he's got what it takes to make the REAL, big boss music like Twopac intended.

all these Eminems & Logics could take a note or two.

 

Aug 31, 2020

B.O.B plays guitar

 

Sep 1, 2020

danny brown

 

Aug 31, 2020

Agreed, nobody even comes close to Lupe when he’s in his bag. See: Failure, Form Follows Function, Mural, Cripple, SLR 1 (and those are just the trendy joints..)

 

Aug 31, 2020

Kendrick, MF Doom, Andre 3000, Nas and maybe Em from a technical stand point in flow. Maybe replace Kendrick with Bun B for flow.

Lyric wise: El-P, Lupe, Jay Electronica, Jay-Z, and Nas.

Concepts: Clipping, Aesop Rock, Open Mike Eagle, The Roots, and Kendrick.

 

Aug 31, 2020

Overall for me, it's a three way tie between Kanye, Andre 3000, and Pharrell Williams. Their talent and creativity is very high and they literally helped shifted the whole genre into being more progressive and forward thinking and have all effortlessly dabbled into other genres of music on top of rap. They were dressing like hipsters, skaters, crossdressing, and singing before it became more cliche and in vogue in rap. And their music ages very well relative to the average rapper. They're so ahead of their time that it's not even funny.

But, as far as straight rapping and lyricism goes, I have to give it to Lupe Fiasco. I know many people have Nas, Em, Jay, K-Dot and Pac high up there as rappers/lyricists and rightfully so but Lupe is an alien from another planet when he really gets in his element. His usage of entendres, metaphors, wordplay, obscure references, multis, and diversity of flows is just insane and I feel he doesn't get the proper credit for being this masterful when it comes to rapping.