Imo its gotta be

Andre 3000
Biggie
Kendrick

Nas and Andre came across my mind before page even loaded.

Nas, maybe slick rick

Nas and Andre are GOATs and this might be recency bias but Kendrick done told a story on all 4 of his albums fam

Nas and Andre have great storytelling songs, Kendrick has 4 high quality projects that tell stories to varying degrees (GKMC telling the clearest story but S80 TPAB and DAMN all tell a story)

Kanye an underrated storyteller too

I might be confusing telling a story with painting a vivd scene thou because his verses on Devil in a New Dress or All Falls Down for example tell a story imo

Not on the same level as One Love by Nas or Da Art of Storytelling by Outkast but still

Kanye tells a lot of little stories in his verses

I ordered the jerk she said "you are what you eat"
You see I always loved that sense of humour, but tonight you should've seen how quiet the room was

is crazy vivid

Jay gotta be up there too

His verse of This Can't Be Life

nas andre kendrick tbh

Biggie Pac and Em all up there too, honestly most of the GOATs are really just great storytellers

Nas, end thread

Kendrick

I really don't know if i can say just one rapper above all the others

so many great stories told thru rap

BIG and Andre instantly come to mind

tommy wright iii gotta be up there

It's Nas
BIG
3stacks

Everyone else

biggie and eminem. no debate. Nobody paints pictures like novels besides them two.

PLEIGHBOI? More like PLEEB BOI

Rocko is very underrated

ghostface up there

Kendrick isn't on the level of Biggie or Nas, he can tell a story through an album but doesn't do it within a song as smoothly or well as the other two, please learn more about hip hop

biggie overrated as a storyteller

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