And its not even like he wasn't capable of writing "lyrical miracle spherical" shyt, he just opted to structure his lyrics in a way that made them more accessible and farther reaching. Its a big part of why 25 years later they put his mural up on walls in Zimbabwe, Croatia, Brazil and every other corner of the globe, they'll be bumping his shyt on Mars before its all said and done.
facts, and you know what i'm tired of that myopic way of looking at lyricism because it's low key rooted in regional bias. sure you got rappers like phonte from north carolina, jay elec from new orleans, common from the chi, crooked from long beach, and souls from oakland. but they are all atypical to their region and subscribe to north eastern cultural hip hop which tends to be rapping-to-out-rap-you-check-my-wordplay-music. nothing wrong with that, in fact i love that kind of hip hop but that can't be the only rubric
a nikka using lyrical miracle words don't automatically make him nice. quik, cube, face, spice 1, fonzarelli, and eiht are lyricists to the core but if they don't rap like mos def they don't have lyrics? illogical. tupac is one of the greatest pens to ever touch hip hop. the disrespect gets annoying b