apples and oranges imo

Wayne and Kendrick are in their own lanes. both legends 🐐 🐐

Drake losing really f***ed up the balance

He has 3,4 mixtapes that are pure, pure rapping greatness. Why does a hiphop forum not realize this?

Even Kendrick realizes it

Wayne’s prime will never be touched but if we looking at all the metrics, overall I’m gonna give it to Kendrick. Love Wayne but his fall off was diabolical, tapes and albums full of terrible production and terrible bars did serious damage to his GOAT case

Wayne got classic mixtapes for days
Kendrick is hiding every 2 years in his prime

Wayne put out the same amount of songs kendrick ever did by like 09

If Kendrick had a better voice, I’d say he had a better career. A lot of niggas I know who don’t like KDot for some reason always bring up not liking his rap voice

Wayne and Kendrick are both top 10 OAT. But putting Kendrick above Wayne? Idk that’s a tough one. Not sure I could do that… yet

Wayne's prime was crazy but one could argue Not Like Us into this album is as high a peak

I think you just had to live through both eras to really understand.. Both are absolute legends. But, Wayne has been making a huge impact since he was like 15-16 with Cash Money.. Legitimate hits that can still be played today and turn up crowds.

Then people at that time tried to downplay him and new york and other east coast rappers tried to make fun of him.. What did he do? He refined his entire style and left not only his lable mates in the dust, but like 90% of rappers too. His shift was incredible. Most rappers start off hot and die down.. This guy just got better and he is arguably better in his later years then even at his height in terms of word play and flow.

There was a time when I would come home everyday from school to a new lil Wayne track and it was fire. I don't think we will ever see anything like that again.

Having that said, Wayne had his ups and downs, has song writting issues and his albums have suffered because of it. But you cannot say Wayne's career isn't amongst the best of all time. His impact and work ethic is undeniable.

The overall quality of the music is still all over the place. I never realized until now how different Wayne and Kendrick are in that way. Kendrick thinks about everything. Wayne freestyles over whoever’s beats and lets other put his projects together. I love Wayne he does have a lot of goat material, but I’m not listening to any Wayne project front to back. Carter 2 is his closest to a classic but I think only cause it’s easy listening and has a consistent theme and feel through out. I think Kat Food is immaculate rapping, Wayne still has it in him today

Have you listened to some of his mixtapes? Some of them are literally perfect from front to back. Literally immaculate
The unofficial leaked carter 3 mixtape is insane. And that s*** was throwaways

yeah I can't personally put one artist over the other because they're so different in every way, but Dedication 2 and Da Drought 3 are absolutely perfect

which is insane considering their length

100% theyre so different, I respect that position a lot. But to say Wayne has never put out a consistent mixtape/album other than carter 2 is just crazy

Not even close lol

recency bias

Don't do this

It’s funny because Wayne was super hated also back in the day

The new generation of hip hop fans isn't even following the Drake/Kendrick beef, they're too busy taking fentanyl and listening to Nettspend. Kendrick is boomer ahh unc music to them

I was there for Wayne's prime

What are we even talking about then

egregious

By the Internet.

He was pretty loved outside of that.

Wayne had very vocal fans irl who would argue that he's the best rapper alive.

I said the same thing, but maybe my response was too long for these people who don't read. East coast rappers were s***ting on him as a little kid and he grew up and proved them all wrong.