Disagree. i think Kendrick is great at making songs and putting together entire projects. Music is a sum of many different parts, Kendrick has a great discography, and yes, benefits from it being shorter with all projects consistently well above average. Nas has a few projects that weigh his discography down. I can easily see how someone could put his discography over Nas’s, everyone ain’t judging just based on lyricism.
For someone who been listening to nas since the 90’s, there’s a different real time experience that goes into looking at his music. But sitting someone down who never heard either of them and having them listen to both discographies, wouldn’t surprise me in the least if someone picked Kendrick.
let me tell you. maybe it's a personnal opinion, but there's a certain agression that comes from nas delivery at times that I never felt with kendrick. nas can make a song talking about guns with jadakiss, then make a song about his daughter, then a song with k naan about black struggle then a bragadocious song with rick ross. I never seen that range with kendrick (mayble we will see in 10 more years). and then theres is the ny swag, people at that time wanted to emulate nas, his hair style, his clothing, his jewelery, his low key confidence (pause
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and most important when we talk about lyricism, it's not just about the complexity of the rhyme, it's also about being able to do anthems and catchy hooks, recognizable songs that ring off on stage. even eminem got thoses. kendrick in my opinion lacks in that departement. he can't win a versuz against ja rule for exemple while nas can. his songs are good but too mellow. when nas got things like "they shootin, I made you look, you a slave to a page in my rhyme book..." or start a song with " it ain't to tell, i excel then prevail, the mic is contracted i attract clientele"... it's not super complicated it's lyricism in form of nusery rhyme but more complex. but that's the type of thing that put you on another level and differentiate cats like lupe canibus, royca da 5 9, black thought to cats like nas, jay or eminem. kendrick to me is the rapper that will please the professionnals because he's that clean, but he don't have the rawness in him. the main reason he got this big is because he have the machine behind him
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@Ziggiy said, everything kendrick does, nas is doing better, albums, presence, voice, concept, stage, delivery, flow, battles, sales
