Kendrick Lamar doesn't want to be considered the greatest ever anymore

[Damnshow]

Lmao, as if he was ever considered one of the GOAT rappers...

Kendrick did what 90s rappers have done already. He's just done that in a mediocre era. It's like being a great basketball player on a treadmill team that's 8th seed/can't make the playoffs.

 

[Soymuscle Mike]

Schoolboy >

 

[Yaboysix]

Man….where the fukk Soul, at?…

 

[Shadow King]

You was never the greatest rapper alive or even top 20, Kendrick has always been a mid artist who makes FANTASTIC albums that transcends Hip-Hop

EDIT: I mean you can't name 7 rappers with a better catalog than Kendrick but you can name 4X that many better rappers

Lol

 

[Shadow King]

Who ever considered him the greatest ever? lol

Nikka thinks he's slick, he just easing his name into a conversation while pretending he doesn't wanna be there. Interscope gymnastics.

He's saying that he's done with that quest, not that he IS.

 

[Ziggiy]

You was never the greatest rapper alive or even top 20, Kendrick has always been a mid artist who makes FANTASTIC albums that transcends Hip-Hop

EDIT: I mean you can't name 7 rappers with a better catalog than Kendrick but you can name 4X that many better rappers

Probably one of the top 5 most dumbest statements in Booth History

 

[Mystic]

Probably one of the top 5 most dumbest statements in Booth History

Is Kendrick top tier lyrically? Yes or no?
Does he have 2 albums (maybe arguably 3) of the decade yes or no?

 

[Vintage Eclectic]

I don't know how anyone reading that article took that as him retiring in any format. His producer already confirmed that they've started working on the new album already:

Kendrick Lamar Has Already Started His Next Album Says Sounwave: ‘There’s No Breaks’

Kendrick Lamar is already working on the follow-up to 'Mr. Morale & The Big Steppers' according to one of his go-to producers, Sounwave.

hiphopdx.com

 

[JustCKing]

Can't get with the Cole >>>>> Kendrick argument. I don't really see the wit in Cole either. He has a lot of post 2010 Eminem level wit i.e. "You can't outfart me", the autistic line, and several others. Cole has his moments and I think he's overall a good MC, but nothing that just really amazed me. Same with Kendrick. The difference is I'm more impressed with Kendrick's music overall from the concepts to the stories to the production than Kendrick's performance as an MC.

 

[JustCKing]

nikka really tryna be on his Andre 3K shyt. Lol

I don't see it. Andre 3000 wasn't out here making statements like that. He just never really out right said he was the best or even tried to be competitive on that level. That was more Big Boi's thing. Even as far back as ATLiens, there's this:

This ol' sucka MC stepped up to me
Challenged Andre to a battle and I stood there patiently
As he spit and stumbled over clichés, so called freestylin'
Whole purpose just to make me feel low, I guess you wilin'
I say, "Look boi, I ain't for that fukk shyt, so fukk this"
Let me explain on this child style so you don't miss
I grew up to myself not 'round no park bench
Just a nikka bustin' flows off in apartments

suppose if
I use my gift of gab to boast and brag in every rhyme I
Compose, won't y'all get sick of that, 'cause I know I do when I hear those
Flows that ain't hip-hop, you find that shyt in the gift shop
But to each his own

 

[Budda]

He does not impress you like Lupe does with the words but the album impresses you. Eminem, Jadakiss, Rakim, Big Daddy Kane, Royce Da 5.9 could NEVER make an album as polarizing, abstract, and what transcends Hip-Hop like Kendrick did on To pimp a butterfly and we never may see it again BUT as a rapper can you name a kendrick bar like that? I can name a bunch of Canibus Quotables

If you the illest nikka alive watch me prove it, I snatch the crown off your head with your head still attached to it
Ambushing emcees, jumping out the trees in Like Vietnamese in fatigues covered with leaves.
An emcee so Ill I got aids afraid to catch me
i speak at frequencies dogs would have trouble hearing. Canibus is the lyrical version of German engineering. Raw metaphors keep you high for months, I revolve around the Earth twice without refueling once
I'll battle you on the net, I'll battle you in the flesh, I'll battle you over the phone you can call me collect
Canibus is the ultimate executioner's dream. Swinging the guillotine

Kendrick don't got it like that

EDIT: He's far from mid lyrically but he's not top tier, his music is though

Those Canibus bars are trash.

 

[Jim Cornette]

Best ever?

C'mon pal... Take away Section.80 and GKMC and his career is MID

 

[spliz]

I don't see it. Andre 3000 wasn't out here making statements like that. He just never really out right said he was the best or even tried to be competitive on that level. That was more Big Boi's thing. Even as far back as ATLiens, there's this:

This ol' sucka MC stepped up to me
Challenged Andre to a battle and I stood there patiently
As he spit and stumbled over clichés, so called freestylin'
Whole purpose just to make me feel low, I guess you wilin'
I say, "Look boi, I ain't for that fukk shyt, so fukk this"
Let me explain on this child style so you don't miss
I grew up to myself not 'round no park bench
Just a nikka bustin' flows off in apartments

suppose if
I use my gift of gab to boast and brag in every rhyme I
Compose, won't y'all get sick of that, 'cause I know I do when I hear those
Flows that ain't hip-hop, you find that shyt in the gift shop
But to each his own

Bruh Andre 3K came out and made a similar statement a few years ago. Lol

 

[JustCKing]

Bruh Andre 3K came out and made a similar statement a few years ago. Lol

Link?

 

[Da King]

His gimmick getting real corny