Does Kendrick have more classics than Nas?

[The G.O.D II]

Yes. Nas was dropping nastradamous by his fourth album

 

[IllmaticDelta]

It would be more convincing if you went over what those topics were. But that is a impressive list of content for a rapper defintely way above the majority.

Now take Kendrick who has only half a decade in the game

Complexion (About colorism)
Blacker The Berry (Racism Police Brutality)
u ( self loathing)
i (self love)
Momma ( His experience in africa, giving back and connecting)
Hood Politics (Him being measured by standards he sees as largely superficial and the rejection of it)
Institutionalized (Kendrick struggling with the company he keeps and the application of the hood mindset outside of it.)
These Walls (fukking his enemy's girl)
Mortal Man (Questions his the loyalty of his supporters)
How Much A Dollar cost (Story about a trial where he sees god in an homeless man he selfishly refuses)
Alright (About perseverance)
You Aint Gotta lie (about fake rappers/fake nikkas)
ADHD (About 80's babies)
Sing about me (obvious)
Swimming Pools (turnup culture)
No make up (natural beauty)
Tammys song (a story)
Keisha's song (different story)
Kush and corinthians (struggling over morality and faith wondering if he is a bad person, ends up being revisited on U from TPAB)
The Recipe (California
Real (Living in your skin, the satisfaction of staying true to yourself)
Maad City (Personal anectdote)
Duckworth (story about his dad and Label head)
Art Of Peer Pressure (Self explanatory)
Sherane (story about sherane)
Good kid (illustrates the adversity on two fronts black men face)
Collect calls (3rd person drug dealer story nas has done a bunch of times)

And I really could keep going

for a artist as young as kendrick the fact that this list is this long is impressive. TPAB alone is content wise one of the most diverse albums I ever heard track to track.

all dope but still doesn't eclipse the range of what nas has showed/touched on

 

[Versa]

I 100% agree with you about Masterpiece vs classics. I think because people in Hip Hop automatically assume a classic can only be a perfect album (aka a masterpiece) we get a lot of confusion about that when discussing classics too

Like classical music means some old shyt right? So how the fukk can an album that came out a week ago already be a classic

Kendrick is a great rapper but come on brehs.

Body of work wise none of his peers come close though. It's a huge gap between him and the guy with the next best body of work which is Wale IMO. Cole got 2 good albums and 2 mediocre ones IMO.

 

[mbewane]

Even I forget about nas' quotables since I usually think about his storytelling and rhyme schemes first.

I never sleep cuz sleep is the cousin of death





I saw a dead bird flying through a broken sky
Wish I could flap wings and fly away
To where black kings in Ghana stay

 

[notorious8562]

at this thread.

 

[Piff Perkins]

Both have two classics. People need to stop declaring shyt classic because it's dope. Section 80 is NOT classic. It's a dope album the end.

Illmatic, It Was Written

Good Kid Maad City, To Pimp A Butterfly

Enjoy music and stop making weird comparisons and declarations brehs

 

[H.S.]

Both have two classics. People need to stop declaring shyt classic because it's dope. Section 80 is NOT classic. It's a dope album the end.

Illmatic, It Was Written

Good Kid Maad City, To Pimp A Butterfly

Enjoy music and stop making weird comparisons and declarations brehs

If Nas only has two, then Kendrick doesn't have any. Stillmatic is better and had more impact than every Kendrick project. And Lost Tapes is a cult classic at the very least.

 

[Black Bolt]

Illmatic
It was written
Stillmatic
Life is good
Distant relatives

All classics

God's Son too

 

[who killin it?]

calling god's son a classic is a stretch

hard to call any album with the Bravehearts on it a classic

 

[Billy Ocean]

Nas has 3 certified: Illmatic, It Was Written and Stillmatic. 3 classics, plus he has stellar projects like Untitled (****** Album), Lost Tapes, Distant Relatives and Life Is Good under his belt. And if I Am came out today it would be heralded as Manna from Heaven. Kendrick is putting out great projects since his inception but nah.

And let's not forget the COUNTLESS classic verses he's had throughout his illustrious career on other people's projects. Shiiiiiit, he just dropped a classic verse not too long ago (Triple Beam Dreams) on a Rick Ross project.

Also...over 20 years in and he still can spit as well as ANY in the game. INCLUDING Kendrick.

Nasir the GOAT.

1 star thread.

 

[who killin it?]

are we talking Stillmatic or the re-issue without Braveheart Party

 

[Billy Ocean]

are we talking Stillmatic or the re-issue without Braveheart Party

Doesn't matter which one. Stillmatic a classic, breh.

 

[Cryptocurrency Scarface]

God's Son too

that's as far as I go
there are a few really bad beats in that Album I actually thought I am was miles better

 

[who killin it?]

its so strange looking at the credits on Stillmatic... only 2 or 3 writers per track.

vs. 8-12 writers per track like on more life

seen full length movies with less credits

different times

 

[Premeditated]

I honestly use to think Drake stans were one of the worst along with Em stans, but these Kenny stans post like they're in a cult..

The shyt I've read in this thread..