Look, I get it, I like Kendrick the best too and one my fav Rappers of all time

Kendrick > Drake > > > JCole to me

But saying Drake and Cole got NO classics AT ALL is a lie

At the very LEAST Drake has So Far Gone and Take Care, and Cole has Friday Night Lights and 2014 Forest Hills Drive - these are their undisputed unarguable classics that go beyond even the genre itself, just like how Kendrick's is GKMC and TPAB

You can argue any other project of theirs, but these are stamped

They exploded further than just Rap, are highly influential with the sound in Rap, broke records in music, started new trends, brought back other trends and influenced Rappers both peers and the next gen

• TC created a whole new sound and put on an entire country while doing risky stuff like silent dropping an unusual song Marvin's Room as it's FIRST single, it also sold great, reviewed well and is a genre staple - it also created the modern blueprint for the Rapper/Singer combo n basically created the 2010s mainstream - TC also has some musicality to it that is insane, like as an example, I know for sure if Stevie Wonder was playing the harmonica on a Kanye or Kendrick album it would be talked about, recognized and d*** sucked so much more - and SFG LITERALLY started the entire album-mixtape and shot Drake instantly into a major name that no one really knew beforehand while genre blending modern indie rock, modern indie pop, Rap and RnB which the first two influence were new territory for Rap and before someone like Kid Cudi, but Drakes was even more on the nose

• FHD is the only ALBUM besides Kendrick's TPAB to make a political song get major mainstream success in nearly 20 years now and the only Rap album besides TPAB to be used in rallies and political change of the 2010s (and it was a year BEFORE TPAB), FHD inspired a bunch of the next "backpack Rappers", it is a a huge staple of the 2010s generation of teens/adults, sold great, reviewed well and I know it's a joke but being as successful as it is without any real features and most of the music is also self composed is also a major deal and accomplishment that inspired a lot of artists - and FNL was basically the same as SFG just a year later and instead of massive genre blending it dug hard into "straight real Rap"

This is facts, and most people in the genre agree from fans to media to other artists and the HISTORY significance - shut up

• You don't have to like a classic, but a certified classic doesn't magically stop being one just because you don't personally like it. I don't like every major classic in Rap and music in general either, l think Madvilliany is okay, I dont like De La Soul at all, I dont like Eminem first two albums (I dont like any of his albums besides Eminem Show) - but I still recognize and understand why these are classic or they have classics, their effect onf Rappers, and their influence n importance/history even if I aint listening nor care for them. Full on certified stamped classics are bigger than "just you", it's about EVERYONE, it's about the CULTURE - and if you don't care about that or so selfish, then just mind your business in the first place

Can't believe y'all got me out here defending Drake and JCole in the year 2026 but some of y'all on twitter n here need ya ass whooped with all this pump faking, and I know it's coming mostly from fellow Kendrick and Kanye fans

None of the big three have classics

The best top

Ya drake obviously does but cole don't

I’d say Drake has SFG, TC, and NWTS, and Cole just has FHD.

I ain’t reading all of that that my nigga but salute to your album.

Cole>Drake>kendrick right now

All got classics. Probably 3 for each

Do you knoo that > is greater than ? I thnk u might have it reversed heh

i dont think anyone actually believes that or maybe they are just trolling kinda like when people say bully is good you know its not srs we all know its garbage we're just getting our jokes off

Drake got at least 3 classics in SFG TC NWTS

Drake has like 4 classics

Cole has maybe one and that’s being generous

NWTS is the one. The others are very good projects

im ngl the mixtape-album thing was already happening with all the down south rappers, so far gone made it more of a thing BUT it wasnt completely original like how some trap/blog tapes of the era were. besides that i feel what u sayin

the concept of Cole having 3 classics

SFG is legit a top 10 mixtape all time and TC a generational album u cant talk about drake without talking about TC

idk i think putting dog p*** as the music video for the most popular song on the album disqualifies it from classic discussions

i dont fw drake like i used ro but im playin him over cole anyday. cole talented as s*** but he always came off as a bit of a try hard, a lot of cole's stuff feels forced to me idk how to explain it

FHD is borderline classic and I mean borderline

Drake got classics but they dont feel like Ye's, Kendricks, Jay's, Tupac's classic etc. Kendrick and Kanye got 3 or 4 albums better than Drake's best.

Gucci Mane alone has 10 mixtapes better than SFG

unsucessfull rage bait

calling SFG a top 10 mixtape of all time is ragebait too lmao

i mean..

He doesn't believe in the moon landing bro skip that post

I really like controlla