It's about to be 2021, can we all agree Jay is the greatest?
Metal Face
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Nas Better
2nd verse of this>>> any recent Jay verse
recent samples of him
(j cole sucks tho)
(yes i know he did Jay too)
wow i feel gay like OP for typing this
2nd verse of this>>> any recent Jay verse
recent samples of him
(j cole sucks tho)
(yes i know he did Jay too)
wow i feel gay like OP for typing this
ISO
Pass me the rock nikka
Be delusional, brehs
Btw A-Boogie thinks Jay Z is the G.O.A.T. and my examples are better and all from 2020
Lupita
Nas is a G.O.A.T. one of my favorites ever, Jay is ahead of him at this point.
Metal Face
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erker
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N-a-s are te letters that spell
ShaDynasty
Chaos Theory Part 1 - The Album
One of the greatest. There are rappers I enjoy more.
I'm not a fan of most of the shyt he's put out over the last 15 years. It's like he tries too hard to appeal to different audiences. Every few years he switches up, and to me it doesn't seem creative - we already know he's talented - it just seems like he's pandering.
I'm not a fan of most of the shyt he's put out over the last 15 years. It's like he tries too hard to appeal to different audiences. Every few years he switches up, and to me it doesn't seem creative - we already know he's talented - it just seems like he's pandering.
erker
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Be delusional, brehs
Btw A-Boogie thinks Jay Z is the G.O.A.T. and my examples are better and all from 2020
Lupita
Nas is a G.O.A.T. one of my favorites ever, Jay is ahead of him at this point.
G.O.A.T stands for greatest of all time. That means 1, there's no "one of the G.O.A.T.'s". Nas is it though.
I think Jay benefits from being super rich, famous and the status he has with marrying the biggest superstar in a generation. Beyonce.
If you put the "he's a boss" "he got the hottest chick in the game" "he's a billionaire" stuff to the side, and just focus on the music. Jay Z is around 4 or 5.
1. Pac
2. Nas
3. BIG
4. Rakim
5. Jay Z.
If you put the "he's a boss" "he got the hottest chick in the game" "he's a billionaire" stuff to the side, and just focus on the music. Jay Z is around 4 or 5.
1. Pac
2. Nas
3. BIG
4. Rakim
5. Jay Z.
Slim Charles
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Jay one of the greatest. top 5 for me but fundamentally he can’t be the greatest of all time because his music doesn’t carry at least for me that depth of emotion and poetry needed to be the greatest. You can take the whole sports approach of popularity, success, longevity, consistency but this is art not sports
Rapping is poetry. His music even when he does his more reflective stuff still feels somewhat hollow compared to others. He’s not pouring his soul out into the song like a Pac or Nas or writing in poetic ways like them
if someone wants to judge a GOAT in music like it’s sports then fine Jay can be the GOaT but music and hip hop is art.
Rapping is poetry. His music even when he does his more reflective stuff still feels somewhat hollow compared to others. He’s not pouring his soul out into the song like a Pac or Nas or writing in poetic ways like them
if someone wants to judge a GOAT in music like it’s sports then fine Jay can be the GOaT but music and hip hop is art.
ISO
Pass me the rock nikka
This isn’t true though Jay uses as many lyrical devices as anyone he’s simply a different type of writer from Nas and Pac. For starters they both used more multi syllable rhyme schemes while Jay is more of a witty lyricist that uses entendres and punchlines.
Jay also has too many tracks where he pour his heart out.
RennisDeynolds
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Hov a living legend and I’ll tell you why: everybody wanna be hov and hov still alive 
shyts a fact at this point
dude got classics in areas that I didn’t think was possible
dude got classics in areas that I didn’t think was possible
Slim Charles
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I respect that. Like I say I have Jay top 3 and agree he has incredibly poetic/ reflective/ emotional songs but just for me relative to others it doesn’t hit the same highs. But that’s beauty of music it’s subjective
my point is more we need to stop deciding GOATs like it’s a sport in hip hop.
ISO
Pass me the rock nikka
Nah, longevity and dominating through different eras is a huge part of being the G.O.A.T., he’s up there but to me he can’t be the definitive number one.