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Pass me the rock nikka
Nikka what streets?Lupe about to drop that album and just getting the streets bubbling
Lupe Fiasco “kendrick is not a top tier lyricist to me”
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Pass me the rock nikka
It's not facts.them facts tho. But your ass ain't gonna listen to no argument so whatever
The musicality of Kendrick's music is only due to budget and location, why it has nothing to do with Kendrick's artistry.
Lupe is just as good a writer as Kendrick but he chooses to write metaphors instead, coulda shoulda woulda ass nikka
I gave you a dap because I feel the gist of where you are going but bruuuuhhhh nothing on F&L or The Cool was as good as Poetic Justice? ......Poetic Justice??
What would lead you to say that fam??
“The Coolest” alone is as good as most of those tracks not even to mention “American Terrorist”
which is for sure just as good if it better from a technical conceptual execution stand point as anything Kendrick has ever done
It's not facts.
The musicality of Kendrick's music is only due to budget and location, why it has nothing to do with Kendrick's artistry.
Lupe is just as good a writer as Kendrick but he chooses to write metaphors instead, coulda shoulda woulda ass nikka
Bro they not trying to hear logic. They became forever delusional the minute Lupe got their dikks hard by referencing some obscure anime from 1980 in one of his rhymes. The nerd shyt got em. Ain't no coming back from that. In their minds Lupe above Nas and all the greats.
Ok nikkaIt's not facts.
The musicality of Kendrick's music is only due to budget and location, why it has nothing to do with Kendrick's artistry.
Lupe is just as good a writer as Kendrick but he chooses to write metaphors instead, coulda shoulda woulda ass nikka
if u say so:Mjparadise:yall ain't gonna listen to reason. So I'm done here
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“We used to beefing over turf, fukk beefing over a verseYou know what it is
nikkas don't know what a punch is
For every great build up should be a climax.
"Dudes is far from what they pretend to be tho
I den fired few shots and got plenty to go so
If it ain't love let's begin to be foes
Just know my mind kinda off I'm like Emily rose"
Smh
"Sometimes this rap shyt seem so easy till you at home looking at tv
Pissed you having a fit changing it from mtv
Cuz you lookin at them thinking that should be me"
nikka was cooking
All the same song and so many more from the same song. Kendrick gotta have one of those somewhere right?
nikkas dying, motherfukk a double entendre“
“The school of hardknocks, we was the first ones in attendance
You walking down the block, he got shot, you were no eye witness
You just mind your business
You just turn your head, kneel down and then tie your tennis
It's kind of scary ain't it?
can't act like no bytch, that only got Tyler Perry famous“
“And this is Comp-ton, lions in the land of the triumph
Wrap saran our defiance, ban our alliance
Put burners in the hands, of the black man
One hood with 20 four-four's like a cloned Kobe Bryant“
All in one verse tho .... damn near back to back to back tho ....yikes
I'm a Lupe fan but dude sounds mad emotional with this shyt.
my post was about Lupe's general lyricism criteria. not about kendrick specifically. i think Kendrick is good at displaying introspection. not the best by far but that's one of the aspects i enjoy in his music from time to time.then what exactly is Kendrick good at then
This argument is pointless...
Writing overly complex metaphor heavy, lyrical miracle songs is not strong song writing. Kendrick writes better hooks than Lupe and his verses are strong while still being accessible. Lol at not being close. Kendrick's albums are better and composed of better songs how is Kendrick not even close in song writing to Lupe?
It’s the same talking points from both sides every time.
Probably anecdotal at best ....nikkas love running with what one obscure person says and then using that to color an entire arguement
People actually doing that?
FruitOfTheVale
Superstar
This argument is pointless...
It’s the same talking points from both sides every time.
Breh you already know nikkas been had this conversation before about Kendrick's lyrical ability where we really got down to brass tax and dissected that nikka bars, a lot of these folks in this thread going hard for Kendrick was not saying shyt in those threads
Meh, Lasers is trash and the songs that Atlantic wanted to push were pop soft but they did numbers. The thing is tho, the songs that they wanted him to use would have blew up. Nothing on you and I believe Airplanes were Lupe's songs until he was like no, and they moved on and gave them to B.o.B.
Lupe was coming off of 2 highly rated and critically acclaimed albums with F&L and The Cool. Had he played the game with Atlantic and went along with that, who knows how big he is right now. But on the flip side... look at B.o.B's career since that? They basically made him their pop happy go lucky rapper for years and now when you hear his music it's clear that that shyt took a toll on him.
He didn't turn down Jay as an executive producer on his album,the man had Jay and Kanye cosigns. Should have been on cruise control with no need to comprimise? Were Superstar and Show Goes On the atlantic generated hits?as bad as they were they weren't horrible for singles.
Far as Kendrick is concerned,I don't see any comprimises,seems like pure artistic integrity on his end. I'll let you know when he drops a Lasers,hopefully Kendrick fans will keep it real and not blindly still try to blame the label
But he turned down signing with the Roc. Kendrick from what I can tell, has went with the flow and went along with whatever was put in front of him. I'm not knocking him about it, but just like you said... Lupe off of mixtapes had the likes of Jay-Z and Kanye wanted to work with him. Had Jay wanting to sign him. For Kendrick, he got on with TDE and then linked up with Dre... then he signed to Interscope. I don't know the details around what Atlantic was trying to get out of Lupe and I don't know what TDE and Interscope presented to Kendrick, but clearly Lupe went about doing things without relying on those co-signs. Lupe's been about his business since the jump, and he's stayed true to that... so while Kendrick hasn't dropped a dud, you nor I know the details around his deals with TDE and Interscope. I don't know how many people are getting a piece of Kendrick Lamar. That's what I mean by compromise.
Lupe wasn't willing to compromise his beliefs to just do whatever Atlantic wanted him to do. Interscope still having Kendrick on Taylor Swift songs and singing along online for cross promotion. Suge Knight also came out and said Kendrick is signed to one of the worst deals a star could be signed to when he was on Arsenio's show a few years ago.
So yeah, Interscope might be all for him putting out whatever he wants on his albums to an extent when they know they are caking more off him. There was a clear difference in the rollout to TPAB and DAMN tho, and there were clear direction changes made and just listening to that album it's clear that the label wanted him to drop something that would be more trendy and catchy than TPAB was.
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