Kendrick Lamar’s ‘GNX’ to return to #1 on the Billboard 200 with 230K units

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Top 5 dead or alive, no denying it now brehs

Its getting harder and harder to make a case for why he shouldn’t be 4th or 5th.

My top five has always been

Nas
Jay-Z
Common
Ghostface Killah
Black Thought


Nas and Jay are locked in the top 2. No one will ever surpass them. Common has had an incredible career and is still going strong. Ghostface last couple projects have been hella disappointing but he’s still got a good ten projects that I rate highly. Black Thought is still going strong but Kendrick’s impact at this point is greater than his.
 

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My problem with kendrick is the breaks he takes. but…his moments are…quite impressive.
He took two "long" breaks one after GKMC and one after Black Panther and that one was more than likely influenced by covid. He dropped projects in 2012, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018*. He then came back in 2022 and again in 2024.

If covid didn't happen he probably would have dropped in 2020.
 

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Its getting harder and harder to make a case for why he shouldn’t be 4th or 5th.

My top five has always been

Nas
Jay-Z
Common
Ghostface Killah
Black Thought


Nas and Jay are locked in the top 2. No one will ever surpass them. Common has had an incredible career and is still going strong. Ghostface last couple projects have been hella disappointing but he’s still got a good ten projects that I rate highly. Black Thought is still going strong but Kendrick’s impact at this point is greater than his.
Pac and Nas are 1a and 1b for me. Then Jay. After that idgaf. lol.
 
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He took two "long" breaks one after GKMC and one after Black Panther and that one was more than likely influenced by covid. He dropped projects in 2012, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018*. He then came back in 2022 and again in 2024.

If covid didn't happen he probably would have dropped in 2020.


He would’ve dropped in 2020 for sure. He was shooting videos that year. Some of the extras from N95 and Count Me Out confirmed those videos were filmed as early as 2019.
 
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