better =/= greater. I feel like Kendrick's music and career in general has had an impact that Earl's doesn't.

All these rappers would bar Kendrick up on their prime

B.I.G
Hov
Nas
Pun
L
Prodigy
Rae
Ghost
Wayne
Eminem
Lupe
Black Thought

Also there are other rappers that could arguably do better or at least go toe to toe with him like 3k, Big Boi, Drake, Cole, KRIT, Danny Brown, Method Man, GZA, Redman, Mos Def, Talib, Jay Electronica, Earl, Freddie Gibbs, Push, etc

Kendrick is arguably the best one artistically tho (top 3) and at least top 5 in storytelling and creativity

Pac, Hov, Drake >

Imagine not mentioning B.I.G

He would literally smoke each one of these rappers on a track

@op change the title to best rap artist of all time

Yes

Hov is terribly gassed for whatever reason

that’s obviously Kanye

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I agree but op was asking a question, Kendrick is definitely in that conversation

The answer would still be no lol

Not ahead of Ice Cube yet

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good chance when he retires he'll be top 5 oat

yeah

In my opinion Kendrick is a better musician than rapper, he crafts the best albums and comes up with insane concepts, and also he is one of the best storytellers of all time but rapping isn’t only that, there’s more to that. Rapping wise (bars, metaphors, double/triple entendres, flow, delivery, etc) he is far from being the best, he is still very good at that of course but there are multiple rappers that are better than him if we talk strictly about rapping

nah, i think dropping another classic in the future would probably make him a consensus top 5 tho

Probably.

That's why he said "He's not even" implying it's a separate factor

He’s better than Wayne. Get over it