Biggest year of any rapper I have ever seen and I been following hip hop since 86
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tehparadox
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Kendrick is literally the most critically acclaimed rapper ever, and combine this with a huge commercial success, that's unheard of.
in 2024 alone, NLU is the first diss track to go #1, and even when you put that aside, he literally had the entire top 5 of the billboard hot 100 on lock few months ago. That's a feat only The Beatles, Taylor Swift and Drake have done.
Within the same year he had:
-A critically acclaimed album
-The first rap song to win 5 grammy awards since lauryn Hill.
-The second rapper to ever win Song Of the Year and Record Of the Year
-3 number 1 hits (could have had 5)
-Super Bowl slot
-First diss track to go #1
-entire top 5 of the billboard hot 100 on lock
-won a big rap battle
-has many publications ranking his diss track the best diss record ever
-first rapper to headline a stadium tour
... (the list goes on)
And broke many streaming records.
This is the most impressive year for a rapper. No other rapper has been able to reach that level of acclaim combined to that level of commercial success.
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gldnone913
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Bro I fuccking HATE when dude asks those stupid ass leading questions and then is mad when nobody is able to read his mind on what he's really thinking
Lol the way Joe got visibly annoyed when they started estimating how much Drake earns per year and the different types of women he can pull.
Joe : What color is the sky ?
Cast: Blue ?
Joe: Guys, can we get some more sophisticated answers for our millions of viewers
Poor production from Joe. The crew was like
what are you asking?One of the worst people in leadership I can think of
Lauryn's 5 Grammys weren't for the same song.
She won Best Artist, Album of the Year, Best R&B Album, and Doo Woo won best R&B performance. She won another Grammy for the Aretha song A Rose is Still a Rose.
Excluding the awards, how can you say that? Biggie and 50 Cent went from having hundreds of millions of people who having no clue who they were to having them as fans within a one year span. That’s what I mean by impact.
Macklemore was considered the most critically acclaimed rapper in 2013. He wasn’t as impactful as Kendrick was that year.
Nop he wasn't more critically acclaimed than Kendrick, not even close lol... that was Kendrick. You're getting critical acclaim and gramy confused.
gkmc is sitting on 91/100 on metacritic, and ended up being the consensus #1 best rap album and #2 album in all genres that year (behind channel orange by Frank ocean), (>aggregation , based on +200 end year lists)
What?
"The Heist received generally positive reviews from critics."
"Good Kid, M.A.A.D City was met with widespread critical acclaim."
Kendrick Dethroned the guy who’s been on top for 15 years
No he didn’t. Drake’s music is still played more widely than Kendrick’s.
Fair point. My point is Macklemore received critical acclaim but wasn’t as impactful as the acclaim would suggest.
Revolutionary
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Macklemore never got critical acclaim. The average score of his album is way below the critical acclaim score
Fair enough. I bring up Macklemore as an example of how being critically acclaimed shouldn’t necessarily be used as a major impact metric. Kendrick’s year still wasn’t as impactful as Biggie in ‘95, DMX in 98 or 50 in ‘03 as far as amassing massive numbers of new fans.