Kendrick and Lupe Versuz Needs to Happen

[Flav]

Lupe hit catalog is too short to box with Kendrick.

 

[CrimsonTider]

Which four songs?

Touch the sky

kick push

superstar

the show goes on

 

[Westbama Heartthrob]

Lox won because they had a better performance with hard ass songs - most of whom people know, and a well thought out strategy with the perfect answer for everything dipset IN ADDITION TO dipset shytting the bed, not being rehearsed, no chemistry, playing the wrong songs and having no stage presence


It was a rare case of one team playing to win while the other did everything to play to lose


Lupe has never been a mainstream act, his audience is small AF, putting him against Kendrick just based on skill is stupid. Kendrick is both a great rapper, a great artist and wildly popular

And all of this is related to rap ability

Lyrics, stage presence, song selection, holding the crowd, group chemistry, breath control, etc.

How the fukk did you not prove my point

Maybe you meant something different when you said rap ability, but I see it as a rapper's skill set as a rapper i.e. everything that goes into being a good rapper. Doesn't make sense to pit two rappers together and not compare their skills as rappers

Like I said earlier, yall just say whatever makes your favorite look good

Yall don't care about rap, it's just a popularity contest

Notice not one person in the thread compared bars, just who sold the most/who is the most known

And you're wrong about lupe never being mainstream. He had plenty of buzz. If he didn't then why did the camel want to sign him to the roc?

 

[dora_da_destroyer]

And all of this is related to rap ability

Lyrics, stage presence, song selection, holding the crowd, group chemistry, breath control, etc.

How the fukk did you not prove my point

Maybe you meant something different when you said rap ability, but I see it as a rapper's skill set as a rapper i.e. everything that goes into being a good rapper. Doesn't make sense to pit two rappers together and not compare their skills as rappers

Like I said earlier, yall just say whatever makes your favorite look good

Yall don't care about rap, it's just a popularity contest

Notice not one person in the thread compared bars, just who sold the most/who is the most known

And you're wrong about lupe never being mainstream. He had plenty of buzz. If he didn't then why did the camel want to sign him to the roc?

No, that’s not rap ability - most people would take “rap ability” as rap skills - lyricism, delivery, content, word play, rhyme schemes, storytelling, etc. performing is performing - not “rap ability” plenty of poor rapping good performing rappers, and song selection definitely has nothing to do with rap skill. Wtf you’re reaching hard to contort that term to whatever makes your point

and plenty of people have buzz who never are mainstream stars. Cory gunz had buzz, Jay electricronica - someone else Jay loves and wanted on roc nation - had years of buzz and no mainstream success.


You’re a lupe stan, that’s fine, the facts are most of the verzuz audience ain’t into this nikka and he’s definitely not on the level of Kendrick to be who Kendrick battles

 

[qnsfinest]

Nikkas will say lupes tracks won’t ring bells in a vz, but in the same breath think songs like king kunta, I, blacker the berry are moving the crowds in a vz battle lol.

While being the best mc in his era, Kendrick has the weakest hits out of his contemporaries. Obviously mcs like drake, future, ain’t in the same league, but fans acting like he got hits like drake and future

This battle won’t be as lopsided as some think.

 

[Westbama Heartthrob]

No, that’s not rap ability - most people would take “rap ability” as rap skills - lyricism, delivery, content, word play, rhyme schemes, storytelling, etc. performing is performing - not “rap ability” plenty of poor rapping good performing rappers, and song selection definitely has nothing to do with rap skill. Wtf you’re reaching hard to contort that term to whatever makes your point

and plenty of people have buzz who never are mainstream stars. Cory gunz had buzz, Jay electricronica - someone else Jay loves and wanted on roc nation - had years of buzz and no mainstream success.


You’re a lupe stan, that’s fine, the facts are most of the verzuz audience ain’t into this nikka and he’s definitely not on the level of Kendrick to be who Kendrick battles

Not considering things like crowd control or song selection into rap ability is like not considering dynamics or listening skills as apart of judging musicianship

Who wants to work with a musician that puts the wrong songs into the set list for the crowd?

Nobody would wanna be in their band right? It's the same thing in rap.

And Cory gunz and Jay elec are no comparison to lupe.

Lasers debuted number 1 on billboard and he's got several platinum singles

How is that not mainstream?

 

[Piff Perkins]

Nikkas will say lupes tracks won’t ring bells in a vz, but in the same breath think songs like king kunta, I, blacker the berry are moving the crowds in a vz battle lol.

While being the best mc in his era, Kendrick has the weakest hits out of his contemporaries. Obviously mcs like drake, future, ain’t in the same league, but fans acting like he got hits like drake and future

This battle won’t be as lopsided as some think.

Who thinks Blacker The Berry is playing at a Versuz? Come on. Lupe has 4 songs anyone knows. Four. Kendrick could damn near match that off the Black Panther soundtrack alone lmao (All The Stars, King's Dead, Pray For Me).


We've had how many Versuz battles and brehs still don't understand the person with the most hits usually wins? And if the crowd doesn't know your shyt, you've lost the round typically? Do you guys ever go to clubs, speak to women, play music while fukking women? Because I'm baffled how Lupe is even in this conversation. I'm not sure he could beat anyone in a Versuz....

 

[qnsfinest]

Who thinks Blacker The Berry is playing at a Versuz? Come on. Lupe has 4 songs anyone knows. Four. Kendrick could damn near match that off the Black Panther soundtrack alone lmao (All The Stars, King's Dead, Pray For Me).


We've had how many Versuz battles and brehs still don't understand the person with the most hits usually wins? And if the crowd doesn't know your shyt, you've lost the round typically? Do you guys ever go to clubs, speak to women, play music while fukking women? Because I'm baffled how Lupe is even in this conversation. I'm not sure he could beat anyone in a Versuz....

Breh, look at the lists people have been posting here. They have songs like blacker the berry on it.

Kendricks basically lupe junior with the machine behind him. Put them both on stage and lupe would destroy him in a cypher.

 

[Mastamimd]

Who thinks Blacker The Berry is playing at a Versuz? Come on. Lupe has 4 songs anyone knows. Four. Kendrick could damn near match that off the Black Panther soundtrack alone lmao (All The Stars, King's Dead, Pray For Me).


We've had how many Versuz battles and brehs still don't understand the person with the most hits usually wins? And if the crowd doesn't know your shyt, you've lost the round typically? Do you guys ever go to clubs, speak to women, play music while fukking women? Because I'm baffled how Lupe is even in this conversation. I'm not sure he could beat anyone in a Versuz....

Bruh Kendrick already has some of the most annoying and loyal fans as it is, he has a massive advantage on his name alone. Bro literally has a bridge where he repeats a command that's gotten more attention than anything Lupe has done in years.

 

[Mastamimd]

Breh, look at the lists people have been posting here. They have songs like blacker the berry on it.

Kendricks basically lupe junior with the machine behind him. Put them both on stage and lupe would destroy him in a cypher.

This ain't a cypher bruh, this is an environment where you perform the best songs in your discography

A musical spades, as Slander from Twitter calls it. Once Lupe goes past Lasers he's running out of material, and that's about eight songs, maybe, and maybe three or four are unbeatable. After that Kendrick is bodying him.

 

[qnsfinest]

This ain't a cypher bruh, this is an environment where you perform the best songs in your discography

A musical spades, as Slander from Twitter calls it. Once Lupe goes past Lasers he's running out of material, and that's about eight songs, maybe, and maybe three or four are unbeatable. After that Kendrick is bodying him.

I know that breh. The point I was making was, lupe is a better mc with a better catalogue. He birthed kendricks style. Both make the same music. But kendrick got the machine behind him.

You can’t tell me an album like pimp a butterfly or especially damn is any better than drogas wave or tetso and youth. But only one gets all the accolades

 

[Piff Perkins]

Breh, look at the lists people have been posting here. They have songs like blacker the berry on it.

Kendricks basically lupe junior with the machine behind him. Put them both on stage and lupe would destroy him in a cypher.

Cypher?


Do you watch Versuz or not. Yes or no. The hits win out nearly every time. Whoever has the most songs people listened to OUTSIDE or in the whip when they were younger tends to win. Lupe has like four tracks that a casual fan might know. How many tracks does a casual fan know from Kdot? I rest my case.

 

[dora_da_destroyer]

Breh, look at the lists people have been posting here. They have songs like blacker the berry on it.

Kendricks basically lupe junior with the machine behind him. Put them both on stage and lupe would destroy him in a cypher.

Then put them in a rap battle or cypher - verzuz ain’t the platform for lupe vs Kendrick - point blank.

 

[qnsfinest]

Then put them in a rap battle or cypher - verzuz ain’t the platform for lupe vs Kendrick - point blank.

You’re right breh. Both would be wack in a verzuz.

 

[The Mad Titan]

Hmm This would be a good battle if you a rap head

But ...

BDKMV
King Kunta
Alright
Swimming pools
DNA
Loyalty
Kings Dead
Fk'n problems

Pretty much blows everything lupe has out the water when it comes to the vs popularity contest. Lupe has had SMASH hits but there isn't really a smash hit he could play that wouldn't have the score like 10-0 in Kendricks favor.

No slight to lupe at all, top 5 MC


Kendrick is just more popular and knows how to perform so he'd win off GP.

Lupe could be on his A+ game and unless kendrick just got up there and rap the words with absolutely no energy and barely moved, it's almost impossible for lupe to win....


Lupe records aren't really made for that kind of setting.