Only commercially, quality and content wise he doesn’t deserve that spot. Check his “best album”,MMLP literally has only 3 serious songs, bro knew how to rhyme, had a dope flow and great delivery but his subject matter was atrocious, how the f*** can you put a guy that mostly talked about raping his mother, hurting women, horrorocre and outdated pop culture references above some of the best poets and lyricists of all time. Also his output post TES is completely garbage musically

u here now we just need goo

Jay z
Kanye
Wayne
Drake
Nas

Put them in any order you want

Nigga put Kanye and Wayne in there...LAUGHABLE

Im a Ye fan but Nas is more of an elite and better rapper than him, Drake, and pac .
Greatness has to deal with longevity, accolades, influence and impact so I guess I can see why Ye def top 10.

Kanye
Jay
Biggie
Pac
Future

That’s top 5 right there

? Wayne the 🐐

If you don't think Nas is top 5 then you're not a rap fan

nope

Nas def got a case over Drake, Em and Big. Illmatic is better than anything these artists have done except arguably Ready to Die.

With that said, I'd take Ye, DOOM, Andre 3K, Jay, and Pac over him.

Illmatic alone puts Nas in the top 5

Illmatic is the pokemon red and blue of rap

Real ones know what I mean

Nas is literally the best writer of all time, maybe he wasn’t the best transforming his words into music post IWW but if we are talking about lyrics, bars and verses on paper he is top 5 without a doubt. A true poet and lyrical genius

Nas has illmatic, stillmatic, gods son, lost tapes, it was written

Later career:

Life's good, kings disease

@op listen to those^ and report back with a better thread.

I didn’t say it didn’t matter, I said you’re putting too much stock in it. Nas legacy is greater than Wayne’s, Wayne’s legacy is actually kind of fading at this point, despite how influential he was, most of his music isn’t available to the masses and will be forgotten if they don’t get them on streaming soon.

What criteria are you using to decide this list lol

Nas is seen as their father foh

Discography, impact, influence, numbers

funny thing is Nas has the one album that kind of defines the genre of hiphop.

Drake disqualified for stealing too much songs , I’ll put Lil Baby or Scarface above him actual rappers

Read my response and come back with a better reply

nah they on the top 10 GOAT list.
but objectively imo they just aint better rappers than Nas

I think top list is outdated

We should do tiers instead and Nas is a S Tier rapper, so is everyone in op plus a few others

Rakim, Ice Cube, Kendrick etc