lord finesse, kool g rap, and rakim are the best technically proficient emcees of all time.
eminem is offkey, on every verse vocal tonality wise.
which means his actual technical skill as a writer is used as virtual metronome to keep him from going off beat.
yet, he is always offkey, because he lacks vocal tonality.
g rap, finesse, and earlier rakim all perfected the technical rubrick with a deeper mastery of vocal tonality than eminem.
over numerous sonic landscape changes with fully recognized growth.
in the styles era, g rap used his physical setbacks from a lisp to dominate.
to this very day and age, where g rap perfectly pockets and uses expert vocal tonality bar to bar.
rakim came to the game with expert vocal tonality and the best technical skills in the history of rap.
with no fall off ever in his actual story and was never offkey a day in his career.
lord finesse was a bit offkey, in his earlier years.
while using his technical skills in the same virtual metronome based way that eminem still does to this day.
yet, in 1996 on the awakening.
finesse fully perfected his vocal tonality to one of the best ramped up skillsets of all time.
plus, one of the best vocal tonality based artist in rap history.
plus, none of these three guys ever bit anyone to ramp up skillset wise.
whereas eminem has bitten hordes of skilsets, over his career.
to ramp up in different areas of technical skill.
while never actually ramping up his ability to pocket flows with expert vocal tonality.
so, eminem can never be the best technical emcee of all time.
as technical skills are directly related to how you pocket a flow on a beat through technical application in rhyme.
of which through eminem's entire, he has never succeeded in ever doing.
art barr
He can't even stay in the pocket.