Can Kendrick actually rap, or is his intricite mumbo jumbo rants OVERRATED?

[King Ming]

 

[MischievousMonkey]

Kendrick is a conceptual rapper. He got some of the best concepts next to Lupe. He's clearly not the best at bars and sometimes (often) phones in his features or secondary projects but to say he can't rap is just being a contrarian.

For example his performances on the Black Panther album are lacking when it comes to meaning (sometimes it doesn't mean anything, like what he does on King's Dead) even though he does great hooks and flows well.

But for his main projects he's still very solid. I'd even argue that DAMN is better conceptually then TPAB.

 

[Raw Lyrics]

Like i can listen to intricite mumbo jumbo rants from Nas - like his verses on 'foul breeze' and he makes it work cuz it sounds like he is drunk off his poetry.


But kendrick is some of the most worthless,, bland, uninspired - Yo life is so deep - rants evar.

agree wit me? yay ? nay? OKAAYYYYYY!!

I think Kendrick benefits from the over-abundance of wack emcees this generation. So much lyrically wack shyt on the airwaves, that when someone half-way decent pops up, he seems like he's a genius.

I was never a fan of his voice nor his flow, kind of annoying to me.

 

[3rdWorld]

He raps but I just dont hear him or pay attention..lyrics just arent memorable or attention grabbing.

 

[Ya Sinning Mane]

he need to work with trap artists more imo.

 

[Ya Sinning Mane]

i need a kendrick X(a popular trap artist) tape.

 

[bigbadbossup2012]

Drake would sacrifice 40 his damn self to be able to do this...

shyt's trash. Drake has throwaways better than this

 

[Lhark]

yes he can rap

 

[Yoda]

yes he can rap

no he cant breh. im from an era of REAL MC'n

stop lowering ya standards cuz dude poppin.have some cotdamn self respect