Lupe Fiasco vs Elzhi

[Roland Coltrane]

Elzhi all fukking day and while I'm at it Skyzoo too.

@ Anyone saying all Elzhi has is multi's.
Breh has word play out the ass and dope creative song concepts.
Not to mention his ability to put schemes together would embarrass Lupe.
Dude has gotten away with using the same scheme for like ten years and people
wanna say Lupe is more versatile than Elzhi.

shyt is jokes, I'm legit certain y'all don't listen to any "lyrical" rappers outside yah boy Lu.

the accuracy

 

[ronnie46]

Elzhi is nice no doubt, but Lupe got him by a couple levels of depth and scope... conceptually he's shown flashes of going where Lupe can go, but I don't think he can make a body of work like Waves....Lupe if he wanted could master elzhi multi-laden style if he wanted

lupe does that already

 

[ronnie46]

Elzhi all fukking day and while I'm at it Skyzoo too.

@ Anyone saying all Elzhi has is multi's.
Breh has word play out the ass and dope creative song concepts.
Not to mention his ability to put schemes together would embarrass Lupe.
Dude has gotten away with using the same scheme for like ten years and people
wanna say Lupe is more versatile than Elzhi.

shyt is jokes, I'm legit certain y'all don't listen to any "lyrical" rappers outside yah boy Lu.

doubt that but they obviously listen to el if they think that all he has " multis "

 

[Anti-Anime]

They need to do a joint together. Would be godly

 

[Long Live The Kane]

Last part is pure conjecture

and didn't Waves just come out today?

Not pure conjecture as he's done the style before...at their core both these dudes are nas' sons and both have had their cracks at impersonating him... I've just seen a lot more varied skill set from Lupe than Elzhi, which may have something with lu being a lot more prolific...but that's a positive attribute in and of itself

lupe does that already

True but not as often as elzhi...who verse to verse is more fluid flow wise, on the g rap iww era Nas tip

 

[Roland Coltrane]

Lupe fo sho but it is not a fair contest because Lu has way more music out there then El

you act like El is Jay Electronica or something

Out of Focus
Witness My Growth
Euro Pass
The Preface
The Leftovers(Unmixed Tape)
Elmatic
Lead Poison
Jericho Jackson

then there's the Slum Village albums
Trinity
Detroit Deli
Slum Village
Prequel to a Classic
Villa Manifesto


seems like a decent enough amount of material to me

quality not quantity

 

[Abstract83]

I got Lupe with a slight edge. Even though Elzhi has the more consistent discography if u count the SV shyt. But Lupe to me is more diverse with subject matter and flows. Crazy entendres and all. But Elzhi to me is still the Nas of Detroit. Dude is crazy with the bars

 

[Roland Coltrane]

Not pure conjecture as he's done the style before...at their core both these dudes are nas' sons and both have had their cracks at impersonating him... I've just seen a lot more varied skill set from Lupe than Elzhi, which may have something with lu being a lot more prolific...but that's a positive attribute in and of itself



True but not as often as elzhi...who verse to verse is more fluid flow wise, on the g rap iww era Nas tip

breh, he DOESN'T do what Elzhi does because he CAN'T, or at the very least nowhere NEAR the level Elzhi does it.

also if cats are going to sit here and say that Elzhi isn't deep or conceptual then I'm just going to go ahead and exit the argument because y'all obviously aren't familiar with his catalog in the least

 

[Roland Coltrane]

I got Lupe with a slight edge. Even though Elzhi has the more consistent discography if u count the SV shyt. But Lupe to me is more diverse with subject matter and flows. Crazy entendres and all. But Elzhi to me is still the Nas of Detroit. Dude is crazy with the bars

wrong on having more diverse subject matter
wrong on Lupe having more entendres than Elzhi

Elzhi doesn't need to do "different" flows because that's not who he is as an artist, but he has evolved over the years and when he switches things up it's more subtle



the question we need to be asking ourselves is where and who the fukk would Lupe Fiasco even be without that Hov cosign

 

[Long Live The Kane]

breh, he DOESN'T do what Elzhi does because he CAN'T, or at the very least nowhere NEAR the level Elzhi does it.

also if cats are going to sit here and say that Elzhi isn't deep or conceptual then I'm just going to go ahead and exit the argument because y'all obviously aren't familiar with his catalog in the least

King Nas on Waves is an example of Lupe doing what Elzhi does, released not even a full 24 hours ago



He's done it on multiple occasions before, as well as similar displays channeling Big's flow base instead... there's nothing to suggest from what I've heard that Lu couldn't not only excel in that style full-time if he chose instead of branching off on these expansive narrative driven concept projects, but do so at a rate that would produce more material than Elzhi has in short order

Also acknowledged in my first post in this thread that Elzhi has shown he can do similar things conceptually (Hello off Lead Poison always struck me as something Lu would do)...but there hasn’t been the same scope and range

 

[Abstract83]

wrong on having more diverse subject matter
wrong on Lupe having more entendres than Elzhi

Elzhi doesn't need to do "different" flows because that's not who he is as an artist, but he has evolved over the years and when he switches things up it's more subtle



the question we need to be asking ourselves is where and who the fukk would Lupe Fiasco even be without that Hov cosign

That's my personal preference but I respect ur opinion.

 

[Kenyan West]

This thread is triggering me like a mothafukka. Elzhi is nice, no doubt about it. But comparing this nikka to LUPE FIASCO, are you nikkas serious?

First thing ima do tomorrow is revisit Elzhi's discography, cuz at 1:30AM, I feel like im in the twilight zone.

 

[Roland Coltrane]

King Nas on Waves is an example of Lupe doing what Elzhi does, released not even a full 24 hours ago



He's done it on multiple occasions before, as well as similar displays channeling Big's flow base instead... there's nothing to suggest from what I've heard that Lu couldn't not only excel in that style full-time if he chose instead of branching off on these expansive narrative driven concept projects, but do so at a rate that would produce more material than Elzhi has in short order

Also acknowledged in my first post in this thread that Elzhi has shown he can do similar things conceptually (Hello off Lead Poison always struck me as something Lu would do)...but there hasn’t been the same scope and range

I disagree

the song you're talking about on the surface it sounds similar to what Elzhi does, but it's not breh

he employs a little more alliteration if anything but the metaphors aren't the same level, not even close actually
and while he's got some dope lines, there's also a lot of filler where he's really saying nothing(that's the classic smart-dumb nikka shyt people have been complianing about)

Elzhi is one of them nikkas that gets as much as he can out of every line

but I respect your opinion

 

[Threnody]

Elzhi is 5x nicer than Lupe, been around much longer and makes better music most of the time

This thread is jokes because I'm pretty sure most people haven't heard 90% of Elzhi's catalog to even make a fair judgement

 

[OJ Simpsom]

WTF is a Elzhi? Lupe > all them dish washer rappers.