Future is top 10 all time

[JustCKing]

No. Putting Future in a Top 10 is like putting Missy Elliott in a Top 10. She wasn't lyrical. Same with Future. It is all about flows and vibes. They wrote for other artists. They are influential.

 

[Chris Cool]

More classics than every nikka in the generic top 5.

 

[boogers]

Emcees are supposed to move the crowd. You can move the crowd without being super technical. Actually nikkas who aren’t move the crowd better.

You put on some lyrical miracle nikka and people will stand there stone faced but put on future and he gone get them turnt.

i dont think future could even spell emcee. not even the abbreviated version

hes all right but its definitely 'turn off your brain'/drug music

you really in here talking about moving the crowd like future gives a shyt about the pillars of hip hop hahahaha

that was a good one!

 

[EBK String]

I dont see it tbh

Link to his best verse?

 

[RubioTheCruel]

That's certainly an opinion

 

[MajesticLion]

 

[Westbama Heartthrob]

Emcees are supposed to move the crowd. You can move the crowd without being super technical. Actually nikkas who aren’t move the crowd better.

You put on some lyrical miracle nikka and people will stand there stone faced but put on future and he gone get them turnt.

I agree in some ways. There's cases where that is true but I think you're oversimplfying it a lil bit

It's like with cooking. Every recipe doesn't call for a lot to make something good. The best chefs, and rappers alike, know when to ease it back and when to go all out

It's all about what suits the song. Writing is not easy. Songwriting is no different. However, being extremely wordy doesn't make for good writing on its own. Same as simple writing doesn't automatically mean bad or amateur. However, it is objectively harder to write something complex, even if flawed. Though simple shyt can be harder than a non-writer would think, we still have to acknowledge the fact that some people literally be on some Dr. Seuss, mother Goose type shyt

The goal of rapping should be to communicate an idea with style and rhythm. How a rapper chooses to accomplish that goal is up to their interpretation. I consider lyricism to be a composite of everything in a rapper's skillset. And I think discussion would be better if people analyzed rappers on how effectively they utilize their skillset instead of comparing everyone to a loosely defined and often contradictory criteria of what lyricism is supposed to be.

 

[Bondye Vodou]

He got white women ghostwriting his bars. lmao, fk outta here.

 

[DapMeUp!]

Top 10 of that mumble sub genre for sure.

I don't consider brehs like Future/Thug actual rappers I appreciate what they do though.

 

[Reality Check]

audio junk food

Best way to describe him. Can't be top 10 all time if he ain't event top 5 in his own damn city.

 

[Paper Boi]

had a legendary run

but too much mid and filler while he should have been in the middle of his prime

 

[Allen Poe]

He's not even Top 10 in the South

he not even top 10 in his fukking city

 

[Tommy Gibbs]

Top 10 what? Rapper? Singer?

 

[Iverson_64]

Hip Hop artist? Maybe.

But as an emcee/lyricist? Not even top 50.

Depends on the criteria really.

 

[DonRe]

Prolly my most listened to mainstream rap artist. Must mean something in the grand scheme of things as someone who doesnt really fukk with the commercial shyt

Future hendrix is dope. Top 20 most def.