Best Rapper Alive - 1988

[mobbinfms]

But how do you really quantify "best"?

@Inspect Her Deck has in effect been calling this "The MVP" of each year, and MVP doesn't necessarily mean "best".
So if this series is looking for the "best rapper" of each year, that's a harder question than who was "most valuable".

Furthermore, if someone is the best rapper of 1987, then it stands to reason he (or she, objectionably) is probably
the best rapper of 1988 because they're still riding the wave of their album they released in 1987.

...this is why I said the premise of this thread series is flawed.

Even if we were somehow able to quantify best with categories that could be objectively measured and given the proper weight. (Flow - 13.5% or some shyt). This is the Coli. People don't read OP and they ain't gonna follow some complicated formula we come up with.

MVP and Best are equally vague. @Inspect Her Deck has been clear from jump that people can determine who the best rapper alive is however they want. We've all got different ways of doing it anyway. The only rule is you gotta have some kind of project drop that year.

 

[mobbinfms]

MVP is a sporting term breh I'm using it for fun, in this context it is pretty much synonymous with 'best rapper'. The title of the thread is best rapper.

MVP works more in a sporting context because of a value to someone's team. You can't really apply that perfectly to hip-hop. If Nas is the MVP of 1994, who's he most valuable to? Hip-hop fans? Record label? The history books? Hard to judge.

I only have one criteria, which is that an artist in contention for 'MVP' of a given year releases a project of some sort that year. LP, EP...whatever. As for how you judge the MVP, that's up to you. Is it rap skills? Is it sales? Album strength? Participation throughout the year? A combination? Each voter goes off their own criteria, so I guess there could be a flaw there with the fact that there's no direct focus on what to vote for.

But I feel that most of the winners of the MVP awards are rated either on pure skill merit or off the strength of their album, which factors in their skills and maybe stuff like sales or singles success. That's what we want rather than just make it a popularity contest.

Doing anything on the Coli is inherently flawed because people are gonna do what they want regardless of whether there is criteria to follow.

This shyt supposed to be fun and heated debates.