Check the first post bruh. I think it’d be pretty easy to get a consensus on what the categories should be. Impact/Technical skills/Influence/Critical Acclaim/Sales/Lyricism/Tenure/Rockin crowds/Etc… for starters…who doesn’t agree that those should be the focal categories? Determining which categories should count more or less would be interesting lol. It wouldn’t be completely objective but much better than what we do now when making these lists. Like…in what objective way is Kendrick better than Nas? How is Missy better than Lupe Fiasco at rap???? Like you gotta show me something to support that man
And there will never be agreement on it. I’ve had this conversation plenty of times. How do you come to consensus on what matters more - overall content of a song? flow? Rhymes/Multis? Punchlines? Does technical skill matter more than the ability to make a good song? How do you decide how much longevity counts? Critical/cultural acclaim? Cuz just ranking technical skills, well it’ll be a list of mixtape and battle rappers…
How do you come to consensus on the grade? Even taking an average of the grades, people are gonna be mad at who’s grading. Let Rolling Stone’s “culture council” be the graders and see how far this new “objective” grading goes.
An “objective” list gets torn to shreds too
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