nikkas confused about what's a dope rapper and what aint.
Ross is a good rapper with solid performances over great beats and hooks sung by other artists,occasional good hooks from himself.
As
@SunZoo said earlier his vocals are basically "white noise".
They're not wack,just uneventful and interchangeable.
You could remove ross and give Jada,The game etc, the same beats,same hooks from Teflon don,deeper than rap etc and those albums would be just as good despite ross's absence.
You cant say that about true greats.
You can't remove snoop from
Th Chronic,doggystyle,murder was the case and still have the same quality projects. WHY? cause snoop was really creating magical moments nearly every verse.ROSS DOESNT DO THAT.
You can't remove 2pac ffrom thuglife,matw,aeom,makaveli
And still maintain the quality,BECAUSE PAC WAS CREATING UNFORGETTABLE PERFORMANCES within the verses
The same can be said about Biggie. Ilove RTD as a whole. But biggie never gets outshined by beats,NEVER EVER was he just "there" on his tracks. He was killing them verses .
Which is why he has so many memorable flows (waaaaaaaaaaaaaaay more than ross) despite his very short career.
Same thing with prime Bone. It wasnt just hooks and beats. The first three albums and the scattered soundtrack songs between them ALL possessed memorable flows from bone that people recited all the time.
Same with the juvenile (prime),it wasnt just hooks and beats,nikkas was killing verses.
same thing with wayne
Same thing with drake.
Same thing with 50
Now we must salute ross consistent good projects but he;s never been a great rapper.
It's not about old heads vs young heads,Ross is just aight in the booth