Yeah

Battle rapping or whatever has its place

But art for the sake of competition like that is so weird to me & very antiquated for the genre now

Did yall see My Name is Dolemite?

I guess at the end of the day it's about what you're trying to achieve in the end, so everyone can be judged different in that sense

The whole point of "hip hop" is exercising your skills on the mic while trying to be better than your opponent lol

This s*** been going on since dj battles and tbh i think it boosts creativity

They want to be the best selves, all of the greatest are at competition with themselves, they are actually the least competitive, it's why battle rap is less successful than stand alone songs b

Exactly

I mean, being competitive with yourself means you're still being competitive. I'm sure when Kanye is on a song with other rappers they're all being competitive who has the hottest verse

Considering 6 different people write kanyes verse, I have a feeling hes more of a cooperation kind of guy b

Yall are some idiots

Competition doesn't mean you can't be cooperative. Competition doesn't equal beef.

If anything competition and collaboration go hand in hand

Ok well now you're just trying to be funny. Ha ha, good one dude. Ok then? Let's use a rapper like Hov for example.

Yeah it's mind blowing that people think competition is a bad thing lmao

The entire 4:44 album is about self worth/collaboration and not bringing the next man down b

Also I love kanye, I wasnt trying to be funny b it's just a bad example using him because he has almost no competitive aspects in his recent music b

Low testosterone got them feeling like p****s

You're an idiot. The act of Jay-Z putting out a record into the sphere of hip-hop is a form of competition whether you wanna act like it is or not.

Then stop listening to Hip Hop then it's that simple

The competitive nature of Hip Hop is its foundation and inspired some of the best Rap of all time.

You remove the competitive aspect and a lot of the classics are gone

Hollywood is such a false equivalency cus there’s literally only so many spots in a new Tarantino, Spielberg, Scorsese movie, only so many production companies to make your movie

90% of artists are dam near self sufficient and just collaborate with their friends all you gotta do is cater to your fan base & grow through the Internet

It's part of what makes Hip Hop a culture and not just a sound too

Exactly.

Take it from the GOATs mouth

EDIT: pause?

Alot of you limiting Hip Hop to just music are the idiots ITT crying over "it's art guys"

A bit yeah

Any attempt to quantify art is always inaccurate and flat out dumb.

Expressing yourself artistically shouldn't be a competition, it's an expression.

How much you wanna bet these new niggas talkin bout "hIP hOp shOulDnt BeEee cOmpeteTiiiiiivvve" stan Drake?

Well I got bad news for ya

That's just your perception and I respect it b you look at rap like a sport, and I look at it like Hov putting out his next painting b