Even at his peak, his feature run from those years was nowhere as dominant or revered as Kendrick's feature run in 2013
Nah this is objectively untrue.
It's apples and oranges.
Wayne's main strengths was his flow, wordplay, mixtape catalog, features, and influence on the whole rap game.
Wayne's influence is so deep that Kendrick's first tape was a homage to C3 and he begged Wayne not to retire back in 2016.
Wayne's weaknesses are solo albums and disses. This is what truly separates them both.
Wayne is my fave rapper alongside Nas but I have no problem admitting that his solo music is far from the best thing about his career. Obviously, Kendrick runs circles when it comes to concept albums and consistency.
But Wayne's highs are not to be downplayed here. Dude has had insane longevity starting out in the Hot Boys and still capable of landing a major feature that gets people talking or gives people the stank face 3 decades later.
His peak was f***ing insane and on par with Em/50 albeit not as global. Dude sold a milli(no pun) fw in the middle of the Great Recession and the album still holds up well and is still charting even in spite of his DJ f***ing him over with the leak and leaving out classics like I'm Me, Gossip, and I Feel Like Dying.
Sadly, Wayne's just not an album artist like that. He peaked with the first 3 Carters in terms of consistent albums. His other albums just don't stand out as much.
The best way I can put it is that Kendrick has a better MUSIC career but Wayne has a better RAP career.
Kendrick like Ye, Outkast, Lauryn, etc. before him will get more spotlight and praise from Non-Rap media than Wayne but Wayne is still deemed "your favorite rapper's favorite rapper" to the late 2000's and onward generation of rap.
You can separate the work of mixtape weezy, album Wayne and feature Wayne and they each compete with almost any discography
The variety of Waynes 09 feature run
!https://youtu.be/YS2hGS38wJU?feature=shared!https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=oUbpGmR1-QMThat Death Wish feature might be Wayne’s most underrated.
Even at his peak, his feature run from those years was nowhere as dominant or revered as Kendrick's feature run in 2013
pure delusion u really on d***
pure delusion u really on d***
Give me a Wayne feature from any year that shook the industry like how Kendrick’s Control verse did
PS: you can't
Wayne having a better collaborative exposure, more influence, a bigger discog, bigger peak numbers, and a successful label are his biggest accolades in this
Kendrick is a better writer, better artist, better discog, more critical acclaim, and more recognized.
There's nothing "bait" about it but alright
Kendricks run was deff amazing back then but its levels to this. Umg had a person who’s job was literally to keep up with Wayne’s features.
Kendricks run was deff amazing back then but its levels to this. Umg had a person who’s job was literally to keep up with Wayne’s features.
Wayne's feature run is always gonna be amazing, there's no denying that. Heck I enjoy his features these days more than his own solo work but Kendrick's feature run back in 2013 had the rap game in a chokehold whether you wanna admit it or not
Kendrick is mad overrated. New album is nice af tho and Kendrick gifted the culture maybe more than any rapper ever has this year. Kendrick sees the whole picture when it comes to the music and the game and no one else does. Kendrick really ain’t had a single misstep in his entire career in a lot of people’s eyes
Wayne got bars for days but a lot of garbage too and it’s sad that he doesn’t have a single certified front to back classic cause the skill level is/was there
Kendrick has the better discog but Wayne’s impact so big he launched one of the most successful hip hop labels oat
Hardly a big feature run compared to Wayne.
Plus, Wayne is STILL murdering features 3 decades in today.
And he's still in popular demand for features despite not even f***ing with modern rap like that by his own admission.
Even on God Did, his verse was very potent like Jay's. Jay's was just longer and more memorable.
I love Kendrick and he's a much better artist/musician but I feel people who downplay Wayne here are looking at s*** from a Billboard/Pitchfork/Non Rap POV and not solely a rap POV.
I can understand ranking Kendrick over Wayne based on some criteria but niggas acting like it's unusual to still rank Wayne higher are straight delusional.
Also, Wayne's hip hop songs are also better than people give him credit for.
Kendrick doesn't have too many tracks as smooth as this.
I mean Kendrick has skills Wayne doesn’t and vice versa. Has accolades Wayne will never have which is does not go the other way
Just kinda depends how you wanna look at it
Who cares about the accolades. They don’t matter. Does he have the records? The bars?
they're different artists but wayne reached heights no rapper has reached. obama went to a school and told the kids they won't become lil wayne do you realize how crazy that is
Sure why not let this be thread we argue in for a few days until the next beef thing happens
Wayne having a better collaborative exposure, more influence, a bigger discog, bigger peak numbers, and a successful label are his biggest accolades in this
Kendrick is a better writer, better artist, better discog, more critical acclaim, and more recognized.
Recognized in what sense? Wayne probably the most recognizable rapper ever next to Snoop and Eminem