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Originally Posted by M16
Kiss and Em aren't even in L's league so just stop. First we have a dude say 50 Cent and Nelly are better rappers than Kool G Rap and Rakim ()
Now Lifestylez isn't top 5 of '95 ? I don't even know why I post here anymore.
Listen, I am as big an L fan as anyone else. I wasn't up on Big L from jump, but got into his music after he died and Big Picture dropped. Dude is amonster. But to say he is the UNDISPUTED greatest is ridiculous. It's being disputed in the very thread, so by definition it isn't undisputed. I thinkPun is better than L and IMO Capital Punishment > Lifestylez, does that make my opinion fact, no. Many educated lyricist, even including those you say arein your top 5 wouldn't consider Big L the best, so you're contradicting yourself right then and there.
You can say all you want about Em, but as a pure lyricist very few are touching him, not even L imo. The man has released plenty of garbage, no one is sayinghe hasn't. He has brought with him a bunch of teeny boppers, but to categorize everyone he has brought into hip hop as such would be ignorant andshort-sighted. Given all that at the end of the day based on volume of material released alone you have to give him the nod over L. Why? Who knows what wouldhave happened to him over time...he could have fell off harder than Em did. Perhaps taken the Fabolous road?!? You take the best 20+ songs in L's careerand 20+ songs in Em's career and Em > L. And thats a logical argument, not calling your opinion fact, which is what you're doing...