donald f**en and glenn danzig are still alive but i guess we're not in that stage of punk rock mainstream acceptance slash revival

Thug is great with flows and melodies and inflections but songwriting it’s not a discussion future got him

but all in all i aint complaining

Future wrote March Madness, I’m not even the biggest fan but to have thug over him on a list like this about songwriting is wild

Future hook game way better and that’s a big part of songwriting

Where paul McCartney and pinkpantheress

Probably wrote none of them unfortunately

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Including The Dream is kind of dope but imo you need Teddy Pain there too

Despicable Avi btw

Yeah and Big Sean wrote graduation, Lupe wrote black album too

Lmao

Kendrick East African?

Idk, a good chunk of this list are older songwriters

Flows and melodies are a part of songwriting though

songwriter encapsulates the totality and thugs ceiling is/was higher as far I’m concerned even down to his lyrics being more peculiar it all meshes in a more interesting way

Not that crazy of a list tbh

Thug sounds crazy at first glance, but when you think about the fact that they’re ranking songwriters and not rappers it makes enough sense

I might have taken Wayne over Thug still. Ne-Yo should be on the list too. I wouldn’t be mad if SZA was there too

I can't seem to find tom waits

Canadian

But also wouldn’t qualify because he has people writing for him. Similar to Kanye.

No J. Cole or Nas but they randomly put f***ing Young Thug on here

Pretty good list

Better lyricists but not better songwriters

lyricism/storytelling is song writing. A song like I Gave You Power or 4 Your Eyez Only is top level song writing.

Thug after UY Scuty? Even as a big fan, his writing hasn't excited me in a long time. Also no Drake is weird when he is the biggest hitmaker of our generation

Lyricism is an aspect of songwriting, it’s not the only factor. Thug excels at pretty much every other facet of songwriting over Cole and Nas, they’re just better lyricists than him