Let another rapper drop a song like "For Free?" and there would be a 30 page thread clowning them for it
But the internet's lord and savior "King" Kendrick Lamar?
"The imagery breh!"
"This song reminds me of those jazz albums my uncles used to play"
"He's pushing the boundaries of hiphop!"
you aint lyin tho
I'm not a "Duckworth stan" and those lyrics are only classic or memorable to Lupe stans...Be in denial breh. I prove ur not thinkin clearly...drowning in them tears cuz everyone waking up to duckworth gimmicks..
"I never met her before but I think I like her like a metaphor she's hard to get" -Lupe classic bar
"The trinity her & I Caine
No weather man could ever stand when her and I came"- Lupe memorable bar...double aunt andre
"i'm already knowing ya'll cowards at heart
and i'm prone to school n*ggas like howard & clark
any youngin' get it crunk get surrounded by chalk
n*ggas is street...well the kid is highway
and i'm known to sling bricks like craig in friday
steam clips and hold submachines sideways- Lupe quotable punchline
"Went from, best to business execs in less than Four!
You can get it in the chest like Fresh
Anything not next to Tec is hidden in the floor
So act like u Denzel or Rudy Ray Moore
Wait, there’s more:
Let me ,catch you tappin’ my floor like Savianna Moss
Hope u like the sound of hollow i got more
I black out like DOS, How u gonna back out?
There's no back doors, like Porshe
Or course, it's the Boss, Tony Danza of Stanza
Springsteen of sixteens...
It's nothin’ sweet, it's Lupe
I am white people's Kool-Aid, it’s mean
The balla wit the goggles like Kareem
From Chicago wit the models on the scene
Duck fellas,
Betta get down like duck feathers
A rhyme or a crushed pepper
A grinder yeah that’s much better
You a, dice game I’m a casino man
Hustla for life, u hear the lingo and
Find me covered in ice like Encino Man" classic verse by Lupe
You knw ur garbage of a rapper when someone mistakes u for a wack ass verse
Still 5 pages in n not one memorable verse or quotable bars from Duckworth stans
Duckworth stans deflecting as usual
Can it be verses from the last decade spat by classic artists?
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Breh he had quotables all over RD and Vol. 1You know I fux with you are a poster and all that but honestly, have you gone through his entire catalog more than once to know his music well enough to where some phrases would be quotable among his fans? I know its not your type of music. Not talking shyt, just saying...
Maybe people from NYC were into it like that but non-NYCers the only thing quoted from Hard Knock Life, before it was used in Austin powerswas the hook from the movie that was popular before he sampled it. And now what's the most popular line? One of him shouting out Biggie and it's a quotable because the guy is dead, not because it's clever.
If you want to talk about quotables on that level of Hard Knock Life 'bytch dont kill my vibe' is the same. That's not a quotable??
Yes they made memorable music to stick with people, that's why now they are GOATs. However judging someone by not having quotables early in their career (which he does have but let's just stay on topic here) when it's not over for a while, is premature.
A classic verse is one people can recite from memory. Shiiiitttt everybody and they mama knew Wale's verse from No Hands
Can it be verses from the last decade spat by classic artists?
But seriously, "classic" is the most abused word on music forums. I don't even need a "classic" verse, just post me a verse from Kendrick that makes me say "wow, this dude can't be fukked with on the mic, his lyricism is top tier". Kendrick is great at painting pictures over the course of a whole song/album. That makes him a great songwriter in my eyes but individually his verses ain't the lyrical superiority dudes claiming it to be. I need to see that verse with lines that made you go "damn, rewind that back
Hov's verse on this...
Would meet the top tier lyricists standard
I didn't wanna cite this verse cuz it would open a can of worms but...
WHOEVER WROTE THIS VERSE FOR OL' BOY is a fukking problem. Kendrick has way more substance than most of his peers in subject matter but he ain't spitting like this on average...
Also the 2nd verse on here by Lupe
Just an example of some high caliber verses that got acclaim within the past 5-6 years.
Breh he had quotables all over RD and Vol. 1
Im not from the tri state. And who didn't kno lines from Aint No nikka and Brooklyn's Finest?That is if you believe that tons and tons of people, especially people outside of the tri-state, were really into Reasonable Doubt like that when it came out
Local fans of Kendrick in Los Angeles can quote his music too...just saying.
"See I found God within me,
Now we kick frees sippin on a bottle of Hennessy.
Blazing Christmas trees on the clouds of infinity,
Blank out, and forget a crowd is with me, forgive me." Poetry
For all the hype Control had, it didn't change shyt in the landscape of hiphop neither
"He actually calling out names!"
"The 'everybody's friendly' era is over brehs"
"This washed up NY mixtape rapper just said he about to go hard in the studio now!"
after all that
just like when the machine put J Cole on this song
