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[jr0h]

whos the best rapper out there in the U.S. that you think is good.
i think Kanye West has got some good talent of rapping. i luv his songs and his beat. i hate rap but i like kanye for some reason. so how bout yu??

[WTFwasIthinking]

i aint arguiing, oohchie wally was a WACK song, like jay said, even the bodyguard's verse was better then Nas verse. i can admit that. i never said talib wasnt a great artist, matter fact he in my top 5


while im willing to admit that banks was semi-hot before 50 took over, if you realyl believe that statement, you are stupid as hell. stillmatic was a hot album and gods son was pretty hot aswell. this ain't even an argument, this is common sense. and you are the biggest hater slash em d/rider

tell me one mic and ether weren't hot.

FIRST, lemme school you...

Banks was more than semi-hot before 50's album... Banks was one of the MC's prone to takeover hip hop at the time... he was one of the highest prospects at the time and was all over the mixtape scene... he won mixtape artist of the year at the mixtape awards the same year 50 was killing the mixtapes (this was before Get Rich or Die Trying came out)

Stillmatic wasn't that dope... a handful of hot songs and the rest were wack... and I'm not a Em d*ckrider, you're just a Nas d*ckrider and if I say anyone was doper than Nas, you'd say I was on their nuts...

God's Son was garbage.... his lyrics are average at best... some of his beats are dope, I ain't gon' front

ONCE IN A WHILE, he'll come with a semi-dope verse

Ether wasn't even as good of a diss track as people turn it into... it was full of fillers... Hov ripped du' in Takeover and Blueprint 2 (the song)... if Hov hadn't put out Super Ugly, it woulda been THAT MUCH MORE EVIDENT that he murdered Nas... everybody compared Super Ugly to Ether but Takeover was 100x better than Ether... it was all factuals compared to Nas's assumptions and attempts at bein' funny... (I admit, a few lines were funny though)... anyway, Hov broke down Nas's entire career perfectly... and at the time, I wasn't even feelin' Hov because he had fell off hard after Volume 1/2 so I wasn't favoring either... Hov brought his career back to life after Blueprint (great album)... Blueprint 2 was sick as hell as well (ESPECIALLY MEET THE PARENTS) and Black Album was a classic IMO...

anyway, back to the point... Nas had too many fillers in Ether... I hope you know what a filler is... anyway...

Nas ain't half the lyricist Em is... honestly, Banks has the lyrical stuff down better than Nas too but he's not a better artist because he doesn't have the skill to make a great album/song (not that Nas has since It Was Written)... Banks syllable rhyming and rhyme schemes are more developed than Nas's... his story telling lacks to Nas but it's harder to tell a story with more syllable rhyming (which Nas doesn't do well - he's trash at it), his punchlines/metaphors are better (back in the day - not now), Nas wins in the concepts... anyway, regardless, I rather listen to Banks spittin:

I got a intergangstress who argue and steams wit reefer
And who flip when I call a b*tch like she Queen Latifah
Not all the vehicle's is long enough to stash the streetsweeper
This sh*t can get uglier than the Master P sneaker
We slidin through the ruckus, wit prada on the chuckus
Soon as spring break ho's home from college wanna f*ck us
I ain't here to drop knowledge on you suckas
I'll sick rottweiler's on you fuckas, cops followin to cuff us
Top dollars to discuss this, whole lotta zeros
When it comes to paper I blow a soul outta aero
I'ma break before I lay floor berry
Besides, every rapper ain't a star, nigga plad ain't bulbary
You can't tame Lloyd, smokin by the big screen
You changin the channel looks like I'm playin the game boy
I know to watch botherin ya vision
You reach and I'll put a dot on ya head like its part of yo religion
Why party wit a pigeon?
I'm blowin a 10 cuz Bush handin flyers for a party in a prison
I'm in the gucci vest wit the green and red straps
I'm the last rapper to scare niggas since Craig Mack
Now every morning's a fast start
And there aint problem gettin dressed cuz my closet got more aisles than pathmark
Run, move startin a wave
and leave wit 12 shells in ya mouth like a carton of eggs
I'm the young pimp pardon my age
I don't got long hair but if I did she be partin' my braids
Niggas find what club they at
take 'em wit us, and run a train on 'em like a subway mac
get advances from grey acura
see these record labels got most artists gettin f**ked like the gay rappa'
i go the college on the tour
I'm goin down in history nigga, next to Wallace and Shakur
I keep ya ammo clean, text polished in the drawer
Camera's by the hamper that mine into the floor
by now, you probably heard of me
fresh outta surgery, flashy as a f*ck, you gon' have to murder me
Burglary, I'm leavin wit cha nike's bergendy, White T, bergendy
you match now, back down
niggas love to hate you, but love you when you disappear
catch me on the boat wit weed smoke and fishing gear
heavy when I toke, C notes from different years
Besly in the robe, re-motes for liftin chairs
You ain't rich, but we glad to snatch ya
I send cars to crib like I'm a cab dispatcha
you better off wit ya stupid guys, lookin for a coupe to drive
you ain't gettin nuttin but ya french fries supersized
it's a damn shame y'all still local
I'm in a million dollar studio layin my vocals

than anything Nas has spit in the last 5 years

oh, that's also at the girl that said:

Why are you posting up some of Nas' worst lyrics? Nas is still a great lyricist and rapper nonetheless. How about posting some of his better lyrics from Illmatic?

And puhleeze! You shouldn't even compare Lloyd Banks to Nas...

puhleeze!!! Nas ain't a great lyricist... you keep claiming that but you don't even know the components of what makes a great lyricist... you would never EVER understand.... and Nas doesn't have better lyrics... LMAO... *sike*

but as I said, I rather listen to anything by Banks before Get Rich or Die Trying over anything by Nas SINCE IT WAS WRITTEN which is past Illmatic time... and honestly, lyrically, ALL THE LYRICAL ELEMENTS, Nas was average-to-good then... he was just claimed so masterful then because at the time, it was somethin' new and at the time, lyrically, it was dope... but his style is basic as hell compared to certain guys of today...

ONCE AGAIN.... COPYWRITE, CROOKED I, VAKILL, PHAROAHE MONCH, TALIB KWELI, MOS DEF, RAKIM, COMMON, KOOL G RAP, BIG PUN, BIG L, EMINEM, ROYCE DA 5'9, EYEDEA, IMMORTAL TECHNIQUE, AND EVEN HOV ALL sh*t ON NAS.... ONCE AGAIN, GET SMART AND THEN COME TO ME............

YA'LL SERIOUSLY DON'T EVEN KNOW WHAT MAKES A DOPE MC AS IN THE LYRICAL STANDARDS... YOU JUST THINK IF WHAT HE SAYS IS DOPE THEN HE'S DOPE... ONCE AGAIN, AS FOR REALISM, NAS AIN'T EVEN REAL.... HE GOT COMPLETELY EXPOSED IN THE LAST 4 YEARS....

AND THERE'S EVEN MORE MC'S I COULD NAME THAT ARE DOPER BUT THAT'S IT FOR NOW.... FOR THE IGNORANT PEOPLE THAT SWEAR THEY UNDERSTAND WHAT IT TAKES TO BE A GOOD MC, YA'LL ARE TRULY RETARDED... LEARN SOMETHIN' ABOUT LYRICISM AND THEN COME BACK TO ME....

PayCe ~1~

OH, LAST THING... FOR TOPHEAVY...

you really wanna pop sh*t about Lloyd Banks and you have Kanye West on that Milkshake beat on your Xanga!?!?! LMAO... anyway, Banks is a MUCH MUCH MUCH MUCH better lyricist than Kanye West...

Kanye ain't bad though, I actually like 'em a lot more as an artist than Banks cuz he actually talks about relevant issues and is my favorite producer (I'ma work wit 'em one day - watch!) ... anyway, once again, you tryn' diss Banks and have Kanye on that sh*t!?!?! I could even understand if it was one of Kanye's dope tracks but that sh*t is literally ASS!!! LMAO

anyway, iss all love