junebug18 said:

All due respect to you, and to Nas . . .



Negative.

renethebrilliant said:

Because what you said is false.

Lil' Wayne couldn't go verse-for-verse with Nas, Jay-Z, Pharoahe Monch, MF Doom, Mos Def, Kweli, or Common, much less the MC's who could be on Hip-Hop's Mount Rushmore -- KRS-ONE, Chuck D, Rakim, or the departed Christopher Wallace or Tupac Shakur.

For that matter, Kelvin Mercer would destroy the kid on the mic.

He's the hottest MC alive. No doubt.

But hottest and greatest are 2 different things.

BlaqueKnight said:

Don't quite agree. Many Biggie tracks are cohesive and substantive. Take "Everyday Struggle," "Ten Crack Commandments" and "What's Beef?" for starters.

Dewrede said:

LOL so he's ripping off Fergie? Or was it the other way around?
[Edited 8/7/08 14:51pm]

namepeace said:

If by "many" you mean "a few" then I agree, otherwise not. MOST, and I mean MOST of Biggie's sonsg were about drugs and sex and doing dirt. Pac was very three dimensional. Biggie was much less so. That was always an issue of mine with B.I.G. I always thought that his talent was wasted on bullshit subject matter. He had the skills of a great M.C. but he was usually on some bull with his choice of subjects.
Wayne does the same thing. In a day where lyricists are rarer than back then, he stands out. If you put Wayne in 1990 he wouldn't last two seconds but I was speaking on the matter in real time; time that's relative to each perspective artist. Right now, Wayne shows "some" lyrical prowess compared to his contemporaries - meaning other POPULAR rappers. Of course MF, Pharoahe, Wise Intelligent, NYOIL, etc. are excluded from the comparison. Wayne is hot in terms of popularity and among his popular contemporaries, he stands out a bit. I still say Luda is better but some would disagree.

Lil Wayne? Well, at least he doesn't lie. Of course, who wants something little?

I like Lil' Wayne
and respect his shit

I'ma fan from 'O the day though
so... I'm a lil biased

but BEST RAPPER ALIVE
is Cam'ron

I'm TOTALLY biased when it
comes to my man Killa
I was stretching it a bit
calling him THE BEST
but I mean he is my favorite tho

NDRU said:

yes , i thought of that as i typed it

i don't know

NDRU said:

Black Eyed Peas = 2005
Lil' Wayne = 2008

NDRU said:

Not really a rip off. Its a reference. A lot of rappers do that nowadays.

Hes the Jim Crow of the millenium, this ghetto minstrel shit has to go, hes a crude imitation of head clown Lil Jon himself. They advocate drugs, hoes, bling lifestyle crime, negro unacheivement and hedonistic lifestyles, the man is great if you want to push black progress to 1808.
Rapping to me is not a form of music, any cretin can swear along to a drum machine beat. It is aural pollution.

BlaqueKnight said:

"Few" indicates three or less. "Many" indicates more than that. True, a majority of his rhymes weren't about much, but about half of Ready To D.I.E. ("Things Done Changed," "Suicidal Thoughts," "Ready to Die") and several tracks on Life After Death were (including the prophetic "You're Nobody Till Somebody Kills You"). So maybe we should settle at "several."

Pac may have been more poetic, smarter, and more talented lyrically, but he was almost bipolar. Biggie stayed in a certain groove, like or hate him. He stayed "in character." But because Pac had so much promise, he wasted more of it than Biggie did.



All that's true. Hence my point to the kid who posted this. Those MCs from the 1990's are still alive. Many of them are still in the game, and could embarrass Weezy on the mic today. And because the underground MCs might as well not exist, you're right, which is why I said that Weezy is the hottest MC alive. He's a cut above the Hit-Pop MCs because he does have a modicum of skill.
[Edited 8/8/08 7:49am]

vainandy said:

"Fags getting AIDS in the ass". Quality shit right there.

Stymie said:

good lawd, what song is that

InsatiableCream said:

Go DJ.

Cinnie said:

TRUE DAT!

muse87 said:

BRWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

i love wizzie the carter 3 is one of my fav releases this summer.

phunkdaddy said:

I have to be honest, Lil Wayne is a straight up joke and scary disappointment....

Did every other rapper on the planet die?

I would have thought that would make the news.

BlaqueKnight said:

All them dudes are washed up bro.
Lil Wayne can hold his own. Andre 3K even said Lil Wayne is that piff.At the moment Lil Wayne is that piff.

Alamine said:

I'm sorry, but just b/c you ain't seen most of those dudes in a minute doesn't mean they're "washed up". & Wayne's persistent presence does NOT make him "great".

CalhounSq said:

WTF is a piff?

Stymie said:

I dunno either!

Alamine said:

You must be one of them "new" dudes. Newsflash: when you create something great, it doesn't get erased when you stop doing music or become less current.
You can't erase those dudes' contributions to hip-hop and regardless of how many records they sell or whatever, talent is talent. There's plenty of garbage that's selling - that doesn't make it good.
So you mean to tell me that if you turned the cameras and recorders off and said to Dre3K "Hey Andre, do you think Wayne is a beter rapper than you" he would say "hell yes"?
Get the fuck outta here. I'll believe that shit when I see it; then and only then. Even if he would say it, I know better. Wayne is good but his subject matter is wack and sometimes his rhymes are, too.
[Edited 8/8/08 14:03pm]

Alamine said:

Nas Escobar and Dre3K are still well in the game, and they'd kill Weezy on the mic.

The rest of them stay on the fringes of the game, and THEY'D kill Weezy on the mic.

Hell, Jigga would kill that kid.

Anyone who thinks exposure and sales is commensurate with greatness as an MC has to re-evaluate their hip-hop awareness. By that measure, Weezy couldn't get with HAMMER or Robert Van Winkle!

TonyVanDam said: