Who are rappers you think get credit for their rapping ability, you don't think are nice

[Insensitive]

Song writing and rapping aren't the same. Song writing is your ability to package it. Rapping is your ability to put words together. If they were one in the same, we wouldn't have writers, now would we?

And you don't have to be a great or good rapper to make good music. Hell, Nore had a hell of a run, and he's trash as a lyricist..easily the worst out of his trio. Rick Ross and Fat Joe are solid rappers at best, and have great catalogs. Jimmy's catalog is better than Cam's. Juelz isn't great, but he made good to great music. Aside from Rick Ross (which I still don't understand), no one would ever say that these dudes are elite.

Totally disagree.

 

[CourtesyFlush]

THIS! And I’ll take it a step further with a controversial statement…I think Sheek is better than Styles

This is why we can't have nice things

 

[mrfortune]

denzel curry nikka just be yelling in the mic saying nothing

you buggin

 

[Artfull Dodger]

Song writing and rapping aren't the same. Song writing is your ability to package it. Rapping is your ability to put words together. If they were one in the same, we wouldn't have writers, now would we?

And you don't have to be a great or good rapper to make good music. Hell, Nore had a hell of a run, and he's trash as a lyricist..easily the worst out of his trio. Rick Ross and Fat Joe are solid rappers at best, and have great catalogs. Jimmy's catalog is better than Cam's. Juelz isn't great, but he made good to great music. Aside from Rick Ross (which I still don't understand), no one would ever say that these dudes are elite.

Underrated Post

 

[Piff Perkins]

Royce


Don't care, sorry. Decades of rapping about his dikk and some of the least impressive tough guy bars of all time.

 

[Roland Coltrane]

This is really the only name mentioned so far that had me do a complete double take.

Did I read this correctly? Planet Asia ain't nice?!?


To each his own, but I think that's borderline insanity. With a few obvious exceptions I could probably count on one hand, I think he's the dopest underground MC to come out of the West Coast.

There are a lot of rappers who I acknowledge can spit when truly pressed that I just don't fukk with their music for one reason or another. But one dude I never, ever saw the hype surrounding, even not taking into account his horrible mainstream tracks, was Mase.

Never saw anything remotely ill from this dude. At best to me he could be "aight".

 

[Roland Coltrane]

No. He doesnt lol

 

[Reptile]

J Cole sucks.

 

[Roland Coltrane]

I lowkey want to put Joey Badazz here, but I think he crosses the border of "Nice" and I really enjoyed 1999, but he never really impressed me with what he said

I always felt like he was one of those guys who got the "great lyricist" tag because of the "underground backpack NY" aesthetics more than being clever, thought provoking, intriguing, a good story teller, metc...

remember this is the dude that said "lyrical fajitas" in a verse
there's at least 3 people in his crew nicer than him, and significantly so.
counting CAPITAL STEEZ that makes 4

when Joey first came out one of the first songs I heard was "Survival Tactics" and I was because I thought it was him on the second verse
nope, that was Steezy
it's literally embarrassing how much better he is than Joey.

even at the the end of Joey's verse before Steez where he's supposed to be "going in" he's saying a bunch of nothing and other shyt that don't make sense
if anything you could say his entry to hip hop was his zenith and ever since it's been all downhill from there.
first album was aight, then on the second he's wave riding Kendrick
nikka was average to adequate rapping about regular shyt, but when he tried to get all conscious and political it was awkward and it really exposed his deficiencies.
I made sure I downloaded the Steez mixtape and it was

 

[Roland Coltrane]

He’s cosplaying as a 90’s rapper. But he’d be lucky to be a wu ranger affiliate if he actually came out back then.

THIS

also @ your screen name
I had to google it and once I found out what it was from

 

[Roland Coltrane]

Prime Prodigy....and I like mobb deep a lot. I just never heard Prodigy and went wow.

Canibus....shoulder shrug.

Jim Jones...shoulder shrug.

Canibus was nice when he first came out
it was a little 2 year run I guess

if you listen to the shyt he's dropped recently tho it's

 

[Thief's Theme]

Drake is the elephant in the room. He was never a lyricist and never nice. Bit his flow and had his bars written. Straight up Create-A-Rapper.

definitely Drake

he has a nice flow, but that's it, and even that gets extremely whinny after a while
no depth in his subject matter
elementary rhymes with an asterisk

 

[Roland Coltrane]

Jeru the Damaja. I remember back in the day a lot of cats was hyping him as one of the top rappers.

"chips that power nuclear bombs power my sega" was pretty for it's time

 

[Roland Coltrane]

Kendrick. I like the production and the themes in his music but line for line he's an overrated lyricist.

Kendrick lamar. He has no real outstanding work.

 

[Roland Coltrane]

Afu-Ra