Crooked I Poses A Question to Hip Hop Heads :: "WHAT IS THE MOST OVERRATED VERSE IN Hip-hop/RAP HISTORY?"

[JustCKing]

Deck's verse on "Triumph"

Heads say that it's the GOAT, but it's lyrical spiritual babble looking back at it

GZA had the best verse and it was short as hell

I never really got what was GOAT level about that verse either. I gelt like Nas had a crazier flip of that "I bomb atomically line" when he said "it was atomic how I blew up".

 

[Walt]

Lupe Murals and nothing comes close for me

 

[TheNig]

Busta Rhymes--Look At Me Now

Cuh hit that "ba da boom ba da bing" and nikkas lost their minds.

 

[Handsome B. Wonderful]

Came here to post this. I was guilty of overrating the verse too when it first dropped. I guess it was because Nicki was viewed as kind of a gimmick artist (which she really is/was) but kinda sounded better than expected next to Hov, people overhyped the shyt out of that verse.



Also Exhibit C as a whole feels overrated. Some people were acting like it was greatest shyt ever when it really wasn't THAT amazing, just good.

In a way Eminem's Forever verse, just because it was the first Em verse after Relapse where he didn't use those weird accents and just because he outrapped Kanye, Wayne & Drake and/or their ghostwriters it doesn't mean it's an all-time great verse.

I've always thought em on forever was fukking horrible.

 

[BreezyH]

u trippin breh



Banks did the beat more justice than even Big did

seek help my guy.

 

[DarkmanX]

Busta ain't say shyt on Look At Me Now and I'm a person that always vouches for Busta as a lyricist.

It went over cuz of the flow. The millennial casuals dont know Busta like we do

so it was shocking to them

 

[Kendom]

Deck's verse on "Triumph"

Heads say that it's the GOAT, but it's lyrical spiritual babble looking back at it

GZA had the best verse and it was short as hell

I wanted to say this but I was scared of being negged

 

[The Intergalactic Koala]

I wanted to say this but I was scared of being negged

Taking one for the squad because smooth brain ish

 

[TheNig]

Lupe Murals and nothing comes close for me

He wasn't talking about shyt and it was rappity rap as shyt but I love it.

 

[Duke Dixon]

Its still Halloween so I'm choosing violence

Lil Kim on Quiet Storm. Prodigy's original verse is incredible.
Bobby Shmurda on Computers. This shyt trash.

 

[IronFist]

Good damn question

 

[nieman]

Deck's verse on "Triumph"

Heads say that it's the GOAT, but it's lyrical spiritual babble looking back at it

GZA had the best verse and it was short as hell

I'm a huge Wu fan, from Day 1 even to current...and yes I still buy their albums...but Triumph is an all around overrated song. Deck's verse is good, but far from his best. And GZA & MK have the best verses and they only give like 6 bars a piece.

 

[shopthatwrecks]

murder - Bernard Freeman

 

[Damnshow]

Lupe Murals and nothing comes close for me

Yeah. Lupe more than often goes to kurupt/talib kweli levels of lyrical nonsense. And his fans go crazy like they just heard the most thought provoking thing ever.

 

[Westbama Heartthrob]

Yeah. Lupe more than often goes to kurupt/talib kweli levels of lyrical nonsense. And his fans go crazy like they just heard the most thought provoking thing ever.

Just cause you can't keep up with what he's saying doesn't mean it's nonsense

A song like failure or mural makes perfect sense once you sit with it

It's stream of consciousness so it's gonna jump from one thought to another if that's what you don't like. Which is cool cause personal preference, but it's almost like what else do yall want?

Modern rappers are too simple but some of the best displays of rapping are being discredited in the thread. Who supposed to be rated properly?