Cortez' situation is weird.
Some of this bias against him is because he's Spanish brehs.
I'm not even gon act like it's not there.
That's like acting like cacs get the same respect like nikkas.
They DON'T, and that's keepin it all the way real.
Debo even spoke on race bias in battlerap recently.
Battlerap is built on street shyt.
nikkas from the hood goin block2block to kill eachother where shyt can get real.
Ain't no damn Charron giving me that feel like Ave coming fresh out the gate.
Ain't no Carter Deems EVER gon give me that feel like watching Reed with the K ova the shoulders and two baretta's like Rambo back in the day.
Not even Pat Stay can give me that feel like them DVD days.
Bigg K one the other hand is the exception to the rule and that's simply cause he's cut from that cloth street nikkas come from. You can see that clear as day.
You see a new nikka like Ave coming fresh out the gate w/ that throwback dvd aura.
You see T-Top giving you that feel while running through nikkas
Now compare that to J Murda..
He got his dope shyt here and there, but it's just not the same.
Cortez had bad looks at some crucial moments in his career.
The nikka beat ICE clearly and still got jerked.
Got vaulted a lotta times.
Finally battled Rex and was on his way to beating him clearly and Rex pulled that fukkery making it a horrible battle to watch.
Even with UFF, ended up on the couch lol
You got Surf at the top of the food chain shytting on him
He just can't catch a break.
At the same time, he's a toptier that simply doesn't understand the points where he's lacking.
His pen is elite.
But he doesn't have the glow like some of his peers.
His toptier money slogan is corny to be real.
He doesn't have haymakers that make you wanna run shyt back like AYOOO
He doesn't have a lotta "moments" either. His 3rd vs Hollahan is about it.
His "wooooooordplay" see what I did signature is corny.
But he won't change all of these things.
Compare that to somebody like Hitman.
He clearly got the glow.
He got a lotta classic moments.
His slogan is betta.
His signature move is better
It just ain't the same.
Meanwhile Cortez got the streetcred, but unlike somebody like T-Top he doesn't have that aura honestly. Part of it I think is because he's not a nikka
And as far as progress, it's hard for him because he came up with all the toptiers and battled a lot of em early in his career like a Hitman, etc
So a big battle for him to boost his stock won't happen any time soon
And he needs to stop being a hypocrite talking bout "as long as I get that chicken"
And then complain about not having respect.