Kendrick is a GOAT? Give me his top 10 universally known quotables...

[Self_Born7]

man............. Kendrick and a one Marshal Mathers are sooooooooooooooo over rated...

 

[FruitOfTheVale]

yea ok dude

Trying too hard and missing the point by a mile. The bars do their job: they express the good and bad, the complexity and contradiction of his DNA. The entire first part of the song weaves together like that lol.

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What im saying is that from bar to bar his lyrical technique can be a little underwhelming at times. The concepts behind his songs are generally fine but the way his bars are crafted is not as concise and sharp as rappers I'd characterize as being quotable are.

 

[NoHalfWay]

Bro I've been a Common fan since Like Water for Chocolate and the nikka is, like Kendrick, a GOAT that just don't make quotable raps. Y'all are the ones making up criticisms to take away from the greatness of Kendrick. Good lyricism has never had anything to do with quotables, down syndrome ass 90s molly babies that can't pay attention to raps that don't have goofy lines in them are just looking for ways to hate Kendrick.

If you been a Com fan that long how could you not realize that Com shyts on Kendrick bar for bar breh?

I don't think all of it is hate, just many people on here can see through the facade and recognize that while Kendrick is good he's not a GOAT level lyricist that hype beasts and media portray him to be

Nor was he blessed with the natural voice, delivery, or conviction of a Pac or X to elevate his bars that may appear average on paper. Tho I do like Kendrick's delivery at times

He's a dope ass artist but as a rapper he gets overrated in some aspects. It's why nikkas gotta call out breh when they were sucking him off for that Control verse. Have you ever heard so much discussion about how beast a verse as lyrically average as Kendrick's verse on Control?

 

[Yoda]

If you been a Com fan that long how could you not realize that Com shyts on Kendrick bar for bar breh?

I don't think all of it is hate, just many people on here can see through the facade and recognize that while Kendrick is good he's not a GOAT level lyricist that hype beasts and media portray him to be

Nor was he blessed with the natural voice, delivery, or conviction of a Pac or X to elevate his bars that may appear average on paper. Tho I do like Kendrick's delivery at times

He's a dope ass artist but as a rapper he gets overrated in some aspects. It's why nikkas gotta call out breh when they were sucking him off for that Control verse. Have you ever heard so much discussion about how beast a verse as lyrically average as Kendrick's verse on Control?

you smart

 

[FruitOfTheVale]

My point is more of the fact that if Kendrick isn't out right storytelling in a track his lack of rap skills. He has dope rhyme schemes and flow but he got more filler in his bars than you'd think with a minimum amount of head turning wordplay or wittiness.

Exactly, you get what I'm saying. The craft behind his bars is not top tier but he's good for a storytelling joint or even a more philosophical track where the actual ideas he's expressing carry a little more weight than the way he's expressing them.

 

[FruitOfTheVale]

If you been a Com fan that long how could you not realize that Com shyts on Kendrick bar for bar breh?

I don't think all of it is hate, just many people on here can see through the facade and recognize that while Kendrick is good he's not a GOAT level lyricist that hype beasts and media portray him to be

Nor was he blessed with the natural voice, delivery, or conviction of a Pac or X to elevate his bars that may appear average on paper. Tho I do like Kendrick's delivery at times

He's a dope ass artist but as a rapper he gets overrated in some aspects. It's why nikkas gotta call out breh when they were sucking him off for that Control verse. Have you ever heard so much discussion about how beast a verse as lyrically average as Kendrick's verse on Control?

Couldn't have said it better

 

[Shorty K]

If you been a Com fan that long how could you not realize that Com shyts on Kendrick bar for bar breh?

I don't think all of it is hate, just many people on here can see through the facade and recognize that while Kendrick is good he's not a GOAT level lyricist that hype beasts and media portray him to be

Nor was he blessed with the natural voice, delivery, or conviction of a Pac or X to elevate his bars that may appear average on paper. Tho I do like Kendrick's delivery at times

He's a dope ass artist but as a rapper he gets overrated in some aspects. It's why nikkas gotta call out breh when they were sucking him off for that Control verse. Have you ever heard so much discussion about how beast a verse as lyrically average as Kendrick's verse on Control?

Okay, you clearly don't like Kendrick. I get it. And you clearly haven't really gave his discography much of a listen to say the stuff you're saying. Kendrick is actually better bar for bar than Common to me because he tells a story just as good as Common, paints pictures with his words as good as Common, creates concepts as good as Common, but is better at multisyllable/flow/wordplay than Common..

 

[ePiffany]

You sound stupid as hell tc. Scarface, Mos Def, Talib Kweli, Andre 3k, Big Boi, Common, Black Thought, Ice Cube, Chuck D, DMX, etc aren't quotable having ass nikkas either. nikkas painting pictures with vivid imagery and you talking about some one liners.

Looking gassed with them imported designer shades on Stars shine bright, but the light rarely stays on Just same song remixed , different arrangements put u on a yacht but they won't call it a slaveship

Mos from thieves in the night. Thats more than quotable

 

[Insensitive]

Stop

"1, 2, 3 and to tha 4..."

"Even saw the lights of the good year blimp..."

"Sometimes the rap game remind me of the crack game"

"it's like a jungle sometimes..."

Even with more local rappers there's bars that stand out to their fans. Some rappers got more of a knack for that than others, Kendrick ain't one of them.

Stop what ?
I literally watched Jay-Z put on a show and there were dozens of younger people in the crowd. (Late teens, early 20's)
he started playing HITS and there were people in the crowd who didn't know a single lyric.
And this is one of THE MOST FAMOUS and SUCCESSFUL rap artists of all time.

It got so bad, that he flipped to his 2009 and on content.

Real Gs move in silence like lasagna

No rapper's content is universally known.
I'll extend it beyond Hip-Hop and say no artist's material is universally known.

Even Titans like The Beatles , Michael Jackson and Bob Marley don't
Enjoy their content being universally known.

 

[MeachTheMonster]

fukk quotes, I can just up the threads made by people desperate to convince others that he's not that good. He's clearly doing something for crab ass nikkas to be this persistent.


But to stick to the topic: "She eyeing me like a nikka don't exist, guh I know you want this dikk"

I picked the easiest one because it's him having a more memorable line/verse than the nikka a lot of y'all haters are really caping for with these threads

That's not even his line

 

[MeachTheMonster]

The reality is most of Kendrick's lines are not written with enough intention behind them to be memorable.

Take the first 8 bars of "DNA" for example...

"I got, I got, I got, I got
Loyalty, got royalty inside my DNA
Cocaine cornerpiece, got war and piece inside my DNA
I got power, poison, pain and joy inside my DNA
I got hustle though, ambition flow inside my DNA
I was born like this, it's sworn like this, immaculate conception
I transform like this, perform like this, to ? you a new weapon
I don't contemplate, I meditate then off your fukking head
This that put the kids to bed, this that..."

There's no emphasis placed on any of the words for a whole 8 bars, the delivery is monotone and the flow is monotonous. The lines themselves don't really lead into each other, they're separate thoughts and none of them stand out individually. These lines don't add up to anything greater and in fact sound and read like filler.

Most of the time his voice is not this monotone but on this song the lack of flair in his lyrics sticks out.

This exactly. Dudes raps are like the jewelz gif

 

[Shorty K]

And further proof OPs a clown


If Pirus and Crips all got along
They'd probably gun me down by the end of this song
Seem like the whole city go against me
Every time I'm in the street I hear
"Yawk! Yawk! Yawk! Yawk!"


EVERY Kendrick fan knows the intro to Maad City, foh Kendrick don't have quotables shyt.

 

[NoHalfWay]

Okay, you clearly don't like Kendrick. I get it. And you clearly haven't really gave his discography much of a listen to say the stuff you're saying. Kendrick is actually better bar for bar than Common to me because he tells a story just as good as Common, paints pictures with his words as good as Common, creates concepts as good as Common, but is better at multisyllable/flow/wordplay than Common..

I like Kendrick breh. I got into him when Section 80 came out and purchased every album since.

He couldn't shine Common's shoes when it comes to the effectiveness of wordplay

I'll give Kendrick the nod in flow, his flow is way more diverse in respect to Common.

Just off the few bars I posted earlier you can tell that Com is just more witty and efficient with his lyrics than Kendrick on average.

 

[Ya Sinning Mane]

Kendrick is legend no doubt but i cant think of a single one at the moment

i know his hooks tho




for sale interlude where he talking bout Lucy is so hard.great piece of music that track is.



"I thought you was keepin it Gangsta"

 

[trillanova]

Kendrick fans are furious as usual. Glad I could remind ya'll he ain't no damn GOAT and can't even really be in the conversation