Is lil wayne the most overrated rapper ever?

[The Ruler 09]

If people are saying he's top 10 then I feel he's overrated yes.

 

[King Biko]

@Wacky D jeezy was not bigger than tip. Tip went gold in his first week and had a number 1 movie out. Tip was the biggest rapper in 06 easily

 

[born2bewired]

wayne '05, '06, '07 was killing it. personally i thought his run ended with C3 in '08. That shyt is not classic. It's overrated. his whole run was built up to reach that next studio album and it was a 3 or 3.5 out of 5 tops.
he influenced a whole generation though and whether you respected his time on the throne or not, you can't deny it.

 

[tybo]

Yes!
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[Tryna Makit]

Wayne is the Father of these "new" nikkas he birthed "this" generation of .....smh "rappers" iono about overrated but he must be made to pay for the current state of rap dammit!!!! lol

 

[blockboy504]

Wayne top 5 doa

 

[Wacky D]

Part of being overrated is that you receive undeserved universal praise. Wayne always had a balance of praise and criticism. Em would be an example of somebody that had near universal praise for a while.

theres no such thing as universal praise.

Eminem never came remotely close to such praise.

@Wacky D jeezy was not bigger than tip. Tip went gold in his first week and had a number 1 movie out. Tip was the biggest rapper in 06 easily

I thought the underlining theme for the coli this week was to stop basing everything off of sales & numbers.

altho, I do agree that tip was the '06 mvp. but not just because of that.

but jeezy was the man in that overall era.

he influenced a whole generation though and whether you respected his time on the throne or not, you can't deny it.

every generation is not created equally.

and lets not get carried away with this "whole generation" talk.

 

[B-Mint94]

As much as I like him, Big L is comically overrated on the internet.

 

[eerieBell]

As much as I like him, Big L is comically overrated on the internet.

That's true, I like him as well, but nobody can't deny that it's laughable how some people put him in top 5 when he's only just as good as any other member of DITC. I wouldn't even put him in top 15.

 

[BNT]

Weezy still top5 FWA was flames fukk what hipsters say

 

[ciubaca]

Ricky has this honor imo

 

[untaintedbeats]

He had a good 2 album run then people started calling him the best rapper alive.

Pre carter 2 no one gave a fukk bout lil wayne. He rode that hot boyz wave to sell albums.

He took advantage of a weak era in rap there really wasnt much competition lyrically. Hov became a business man eminem was on sabbatical & nas was no longer hot like he use to be.

I dont wanna hear that album sales bullshyt everyone knows bird and slim was buying albums to boost the numbers.

He was a C+ rapper in a F grade era

realest post you ever wrote...

 

[Wacky D]

He had a good 2 album run then people started calling him the best rapper alive.

and that's only because that was his tag-line, which didn't even make sense.

"best rapper alive.....since the best rapper retired"

 

[Barack Dracobama]

 

[wingstop]

wayne was great from 2004-2009 but from 2009-2015 he was so fukking trash . easily top 15 or top 20 though.