i disagree, but regardless overrated =/= not good

Obviously

Jay was never the biggest rapper of any era so yes

Where do these niggas get their info “ jay was never the biggest rapper” y’all are confusing sells with actual talent….from 1998-2001 only rapper who could f*** with hov was X

Water is wet

Apologize

Eminem and DMX were on top but Hov was right behind them

nooo it was definitely before he retired with the Black Album...

he HAS NOT been in his prime since he came out of retirement.....

yeah that was a pretty odd post

I think their primes are pretty on par with each other. Hard to really say who’s better.
Overall discography though, HOV edges Wayne out imo

Even tho bp3 wasn’t a great album it was definitely the biggest hip hop album that year 2009…

I was a Wayne fan back when C1 dropped, still listen to C1-3, but none of those are 10/10’s and people only bring up Wayne’s tapes because his album discography is patchy at best. It’s far easier to take a hit song with a pre-existing blueprint and “freestyle” over it than to put a cohesive album or even song together. This is why mixtape Wayne >>>> album Wayne

… but, but, but,the C3 leaks f*** outta here

Yea but these type argument get brought up with every rapper niggas compare to Hov

“Drake had a longer run!”

“Eminem sold more records!”

“Kanye had more classics!”

“50 had better singles!”

The fact that Hov is in all these convos only proves his status in the game 🤷🏾‍♂️

That’s only because C3 dropped the year before

Wayne was still the bigger rapper in 2009

Wayne has the best prime oat of course

Na not saying he wasn’t but for the niggas saying jay never ran a year…is f***ing fronting

the C3 leaks feature multiple of those “cohesive” songs that you claim he can’t do though lol

never understood this argument

Talk to em

wish Ignance was here to defend him

like the thing that Wayne does that other rappers can’t is that he brings his own unique thing to literally any beat (at least in his prime, anyways)

like you can’t sit here and just tell me “oh it’s easy to rap on a song with a predefined blueprint on it” when Wayne’s versions were taking precedence over the actual original song

no one else did that and if they did, it was very sparingly

The argument is that Wayne’s actual album discography sucks so people have to bring in other things… tapes, features, unreleased songs. Every rapper has great unreleased songs, look at Nas for example, even game has better unreleased songs than ones in his actual albums, job’s S. Carter mixtape is up there with Wayne’s tapes but no one needs to bring them up because jay has a sold ass discography

It’s because they can only go off of the history given to us

S*** like Billboard and reviews is how they keep track of rappers but if you were a rap fan back then you know that Hov was always considered a big dawg

He never sold a mill in a week like other rappers but he was always respected among his peers and revered by rap fans. He’s maintained this same status for a long time and managed to elevate his name while people that were bigger than him slowly started to fall off over time