This poll was already done, K-Rino won. This 1 will get skewed now lol. But I'll answer the question anyway since I've just come back here.
Lupe isn't on K-Rino's level, if you look at discography K-Rino wins hands down, K-Rino is a better lyricist, better concepts and more creative, more emotionally touching songs, better storytelling, much better voice, more styles and better content, Lupe really and truly in my view isn't even on K-Rino's level. K-Rino is an MC and artist in the highest bracket you can compare with artists such as KRS-One, 2 Pac, Nas etc, not a Lupe. Lupe at his best is good but objectively speaking he really isn't even in the same galaxy as K-Rino.
People will of course vote Lupe, 1 to troll and 2 because that's what they feel they are supposed to do because he's more known. I could show people who are BOTH K-Rino and Lupe fans and have heard all their work that pick K-Rino. Infact even myself, I'm not a hater of Lupe at all, there are Lupe songs I like, even at least 1 album I like and thought was good from him. He has some good songs and is a capable lyricist and MC on his day, the problem with him for me is his day isn't consistent enough and he has flaws which hurt the listenability of his music. I think some latched on to Lupe to stan a he was like that "new lyricist" they could stan, in an era where the lyrics have fallen down the drain in the mainstream apart form artists such as Nas etc... But they overhype mad shyt he does and get impressed by shyt that is wack and try to make excuses for it, reaches or citing complexity without realizing that isn't synonymous with efficiency. Lupe has a lot of shyt pseudo intellectuals eat up, cause they feel like they are smart for solving a pointless ineffective puzzle, ok but that's not for everyone. And I don't even want to put Lupe JUST in that box because he has his historically done more, I liked what he did on Muhammad Walks, I liked some of the joints on F&L 2 even though some of his core fans didn't like that album, I did, I also even liked some joints on Lasers (All Black Everything) and some others, if Lupe was at that standard all the time this would be closer, but he's not and it isn't....