Are kurupt and Kendrick Lamar traditional West Coast MCs?
Kurupt id say it depends on what he's giving you and what type of track it is....even when he's givin you the "lyrical" version of himself id be suprised if u told me he was from NY but I can definitly see the Philly in em...I don't know if we ever talk about the differences but Philly nikkas definitly bring it different from the lyrical tip....but u got the laid back,smooth Kurpt who spit game too who's not tryna put on the lyrical display who kills shyt too and he's traditionally west coast...both versions are great which is why Kurupt was a letdown,not to many emcees more complete....
Kendrick is traditional too,but moreso for the unsung lyrical acts of the west coast who bring a more poetic/spoken word form to the table.
Game never felt west coast to me for whatever reason outside of his shyt talking skills
...but it makes sense as I think he wuz more influenced by east coast hiphop then west coast,think he studied them a little more to learn to rap.
...yeah you nikkas had some lyricist but dont act like the westcoast frowned upon that your pride and joy was that gangsta shyt dont act like you know...thats why you bums hated illmatic...
"legendary kurupt"
kurupt been garbage since the late 90's he's only a legend to you west coast nikkas you biased dudes gas everything from your coast and nobody cared about kurupt saying it cuz most people didn't hear it
fukk Belly
Yeah according to the west heads on here illmatic was wack and no one knew who nas was until he dropped "if I ruled the world" seen it plenty times on here...and grandpa I was alive to enjoy illmatic 
...one of th best Hiphop albums created so save that youngin shyt for your t shirts...
?bigger more important emcees and albums like Snoop and Doggystyle for one? nikkas supposed to listen to a Chronic or Doggystyle then Illmatic and be 
status?
....I dare u to try to listen to em back to back and see if u look at Illmatic the same
...the order u choose to listen is up to u but the result is the same
? It's pretty much exactly like that
