Ebro says Nas isn't a "lyricist"

[detroit devil 3]

As regards Pac, not to blow my own horn or nothing, but I pretty much broke it down here..

http://www.thecoli.com/threads/pacs-schizo-writing-style-was-absolutely-genius.280370/

Diverse in subject matter but he had a limited pool of actual words to draw from....

Pac understood the concept of precision and directness and most of all accessibility....something that's gone a long way in helping his music age like no one else's and given it widespread appeal. The people he made music for weren't exactly english majors either. Moreover, he certainly didn't have a limited vocab, just wasn't as wordy as some of his contemporaries, didn't take away from the effectiveness of the "actual" music and artistry.

There is a reason he's never mentioned in any top lyricists list...

Lyricism, by its very definition, is having a "distinctive expressive style" and nothing to do with having a multisyllabic, rappity rap style and using big words like KGR and Rakim. Nobody had a more distinct diction than Pac, the way he used words like 'HOPELESS' and 'THUG' and gave them subtle, personal meanings, set him apart and makes him of of the great lyricists of his day easily.

99% of dudes of the Coli and even in hip-hop media simply do not have a clue what they're talking about when it comes to lyricism ("lyrical" simply being a derivative form of that exact word).

As regards Nas, to which he claims never uses "wordplay", that's quite possibly the dumbest, densest and most uniquely retarded thing I heard all year. Illmatic, IWW, and Lost Tapes alone contain more sophisticated wordplay than the entire catalog of some of the dudes he's boxed as "lyricists" or "lyrical rappers" (which is so retarded in itself that he thinks they're somehow separate in meaning).

Ebro needs to leave radio and settle down with a wife..shave that stupid beard and adopt a new fashion sense cuz them snapbacks stifling his brain cell movement for sure.

JULY SHALL NEVER END

 

[blazn101]

 

[L. Deezy]

Nas and P have completely different approaches to rappin. U wrong bro.

i just meant its not simile rap.. like Red or Keith etc..

 

[jerzboy]

"Rewind"
"One Mic"
"I Gave You Power"
"Second Childhood"
"Take it In Blood"

I understand the wordplay bullshyt comment, but just cause wordplay isn't what he's known for, that doesn't not make him a lyricist.

 

[Anti-Anime]

I never liked ebytch this just seals the deal

 

[Zach Lowe]

u damn right naS ain't a lyricist

 

[Arithmetic]

Nas:

"First of all, who gives you the right to even mention my name out your muthafukkin mouth?!?!

 

[spliz]

Go listen to Rewind and tell me that ain't wordplay. Smh

 

[EducatedBrothaFromTheBank]

this is seriously one of the dumbest things I've read in modern Twitter/Message board history.

 

[Axum Ezana]

ebro shut the fukk up.

shoulda never gave certain nikkas twitter

 

[pointproven214]

ebro shut the fukk up.

shoulda never gave certain nikkas twitter

exactly twitter is a gift and a curse.

 

[Animal House]

Verbal Intercourse ring a bell. But its Ebro, clown nikka

 

[Animal House]

2pac is a mc what the fukk
He had mad wordplay at times

 

[pointproven214]

2pac is a mc what the fukk
He had mad wordplay at times

nikka had it all homie complex rhyme schemes metaphors wordplay punchlines etc

 

[BNT]

@intilectual recipricol What's you're take on this bro