It seems we have this discussion every month. Let me start out by saying that EM is NICE!!!! He is a talented lyricists, no question. What it comes down to for me is two things....
1. White people try to force EM down everybody's throat as the best rapper of all time. And they do it simply because he is white for the most part.
2. He raps about the most off the wall, ridiculous shyt I've ever heard. His subject matter basically consists of mushrooms, vicodin, killing his baby mom's, killing his mother and homoerotic skits about men sucking his dikk. Sound ridiculous to say? What songs do the general public associate with Em?
Hi kids, do like violence
Wanna see me stick Nine Inch Nails through each one of my eyelids?
But these same white people will complain about rappers talking about the ghetto, guns, jewelry etc...
Bottom line he's not GOAT or in that discussion because he chose to be a clown.
I don't know how anybody can listen to Paid in Full, Reasonable Doubt, Illmatic, Southernplayalisticadillacmuzik, Midnight Marauders and think he belongs with those kinds of MC's.