Unpopular Opinion: Kendrick Lamar’s discography has already surpassed Jay Z, Nas and Kanye.

[winb83]

Still too early in his career to crown him. Kanye West's 6th album was Yeezus. If that's the cut off then you could make the argument his overall discography is amazing.

Nas has 17 solo studio albums and Jay-Z has 13. Kendrick Lamar has 6.

 

[LiveFromLondon]

Amongst moist, shea butter, new blacks and white liberals yes
Real nikkas

 

[prophecypro]

Hes got less misses than them, but Jay and Nas got so many albums and a enough good ones that the misses dont hurt them overall (IMO).
Its also a generation thing, hes running things when rap argubaly has a bigger audience than ever. Depending on your generation, you're okay with saying that if Kendrick is your formative years or not if Jay and Nas highs mean more to you growing up

 

[((ReFleXioN)) EteRNaL]

He's prolly 2 albums away. But it's inevitable at this point. Kendrick will be going down as the GOAT and people just need to accept it now. I already prefer his albums over Jay's and Kanye's. Nas is the only one who I think still got him. Strictly because of how iconic illmatic and IWW were.

I really don't get all the talk of Kanye being in the GOAT discussion. His music hasn't aged well at all. People call J Cole corny but Kanye's music is WAY cornier. Always was. After his first two albums he started making music for white soccer mom's. That stronger song was gay as fukk. Kanye was damn near black eyed peas status to me. On top of that he didn't even write his raps and also had plenty of help on the production side too. Kanye should never be in any type of GOAT conversations.

 

[☑︎#VoteDemocrat]

Nope

 

[☑︎#VoteDemocrat]

He's prolly 2 albums away. But it's inevitable at this point. Kendrick will be going down as the GOAT and people just need to accept it now. I already prefer his albums over Jay's and Kanye's. Nas is the only one who I think still got him. Strictly because of how iconic illmatic and IWW were.

I really don't get all the talk of Kanye being in the GOAT discussion. His music hasn't aged well at all. People call J Cole corny but Kanye's music is WAY cornier. Always was. After his first two albums he started making music for white soccer mom's. That stronger song was gay as fukk. Kanye was damn near black eyed peas status to me. On top of that he didn't even write his raps and also had plenty of help on the production side too. Kanye should never be in any type of GOAT conversations.

Making music with an edge does not make it better nor does making music for wider audiences make it better

 

[LiveFromLondon]

i get what you're saying and agree it can be a slippery slope but kendrick is a generational hooper and TPAB is his greatest finals performance.

TPAB appeals to non hip-hop crowds for its content, storytelling, layers and concepts revolving around the album. TPAB was praised by prince for being original while delivering an important message and he was supposed to be featured on it. i don't recall prince ever being featured on a rap album or even praising one.

that album was getting praises from hip-hop critics, non hip-hop critics, added to harvard's hip-hop archive (only 4 hip-hop albums in this category so far), won a grammy, praised by pop artists like taylor swift to legendary jazz artists to chuck D, KRS One, Dre, Nas and jay. saying TPAB transcends hip-hop isn't a bad thing because how many rap albums you know accomplished all of that? i don't care what cacs who know nothing about hip-hop have to say. i hear TPAB and can understand why it gets the praises it does and when artists such as prince and chuck D are saying TPAB is a breath of fresh air then it would make sense why other crowds praise the album as well.

cmon bruh, i love nas but DAMN clears IWW, LT1 and any other albums not named illmatic.

it's a toss-up between stillmatic and DAMN for me but i will just say kendrick won a pulitzer for DAMN. so having DAMN over stillmatic isn't a bad thing.

TPAB and Kendrick belong in that The Score, Aquameni, Outkast, Common, Kanye lane. Great yes, but because of the street element of hip hop, the culture will never accept them as being the pinnacle of rap. So TPAB can all this love Pulitzer, Grammys, Write ups by liberal cacs, but it will never touch albums like Illmatic or RD amongst purists. GKMC and Section 80 are his albums that belong so to speak

 

[No1]

I’m beginning to hate Kendrick stans.

 

[ISO]

He's prolly 2 albums away. But it's inevitable at this point. Kendrick will be going down as the GOAT and people just need to accept it now. I already prefer his albums over Jay's and Kanye's. Nas is the only one who I think still got him. Strictly because of how iconic illmatic and IWW were.

I really don't get all the talk of Kanye being in the GOAT discussion. His music hasn't aged well at all. People call J Cole corny but Kanye's music is WAY cornier. Always was. After his first two albums he started making music for white soccer mom's. That stronger song was gay as fukk. Kanye was damn near black eyed peas status to me. On top of that he didn't even write his raps and also had plenty of help on the production side too. Kanye should never be in any type of GOAT conversations.

You’d put Mr Morale and GNX over say The Black Album and American Gangster?

U think Kendrick has better albums than Reasonable Doubt and The Blueprint?

 

[DaveyDave]

In some ways yes (consistency, critical acclaim)

In others no, his stuff is simply not THAT dope...

You can't compare critical acclaim because Hip Hop simply wasn't seen as an art form worthy of discussion let alone critical review. Besides specific Hip Hop journalism, not many Hip Hop albums or artists were reviewed and if they were it was in things like Rolling Stone where they didn't know or appreciate the genre.

Consistency yes, but again Kendrick has a lot more artistic freedom compared to any mainstream artist in the 80s or 90s

 

[boogers]

In j


The only people who would take TPAB over Illmatic are vegan animal kissing cacs, if you think King Kunta or Alright is better than Memory Lane then I don’t want to hear your opinion on things relating to Hip Hop.

The same people who would put TPAB over Illmatic are the same people who have look down on Hip Hop as an art form for over 30 years. Hip Hop has nothing to prove to these types, what Kendrick done on certain albums is not new and has been done before by the likes of Mos Def, Outkast, Tribe, De La Soul and others without the constant dikk sucking.

hard agree with this. i love kendrick and nas but its kinda like comparing the black keys to the rolling stones. thats not taking anything away from kendrick, but its fukking illmatic

if kendrick lamar came out in 1995 nobody would* know who he is today

 

[Mike Wins]

This nikka inherited the pretentious crowd and I been tryna warn nikkas for years where it was gonna lead. Problem is these nikkas treating Kendrick like he IS hip hop rather than being a part of it.

The insufferable hypebeasts and hipster cacs that used to ride Kanye meat relentlessly definitely jumped on the Kendrick bandwagon.

These types love hip hop albums that "transcend the genre" but look down their nose at hip hop in general. Whenever someone main talking point is "critical acclaim" that's code for being unable to think critically on their own. So they need these mostly white critics that don't even like or know hip hop to validate their opinion.

 

[Devilinurear]

Light skin dudes always on some Extra shyt.

I'm not saying he has better bars
Them what the fuk are you talking about

 

[Hum Alistair]

Kendrick's discography has no competition, objectively. So its a popular fact.

 

[TrapHouse Rock]

I’m beginning to hate Kendrick stans.

I've hated them since 2009 lol nikkas tried to boss up on me cause I had a huge blog at the time and shytted on him. fukk them and that overrated gremlin

I don't even like ONE Kendrick Lamar song. fukking Tim Dog (rip) got a better discography than him lol nas and jay? fukk outta here