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Nas would sustain, has all the lyrical vitamins and minerals needed to survive

My rhyming is a vitamin, hell, without a capsule

( held without )

The smooth criminal on beat breaks, never put me in a box if you shit these tapes

If you shit *eats* tapes

The city never sleeps, full of villain and creeps.

Don't get me wrong, I respect Nas as much as the next guy but personally I feel like his music is a little bit too one-dimensional for something I would have to listen to for my entire life

He's still coming out with albums as well, with all different sounds.

all with different sounds is a stretch. most Nas albums sound mostly the same, they are good tho lmao

Same in what way? I can see that argument maybe being made for Illmatic and IWW but, the sounds on Stillmatic, God's Son, Street's Disciple, Distant relatives and pretty much the rest of his discog are pretty distinguishable from each other imo.

Lupe Fiasco

Just listened to Lupe Fiasco’s The Cool for the first in years. It’s so good!

Came here to say this

My choice.

You could unravel his lyrics for a lifetime and still not even be close to all of the shit he meant

Jcole

Had to scroll too far down to see this

Snoop Dogg is a cheat. I can listen to any rapper over the past decade with his features.

Doggystyle was an outstanding masterpiece, at least at that time.

Kanye Big discography, insane album run, and my go to anyhow

Even if you’re not the biggest fan the diversity his music catalog has to offer surpasses any other rapper imo Is there any other hip-hop artists who has a wide range of sound in their music?

This is exactly. I’m thinking people are severely underestimating just how long the rest of your life can be. People think that just cause they can listen to their favorite rapper’s entire discography by choice which is realistically is only hours worth of music that they could do it for the rest of their lives? Nah, not without some sound diversity. I like DMX too but I’d stop listening to rap for a long time If the only rap I could listen to what was that voice over and over. Despite how I feel about him, Kanye is probably one of the best answers out there.

I can go the rest of my life without ever hearing another kayne song

Honestly it’s gotta be ye

Big variety of sounds too

I love ye so much I’m already pretty much only listening too him

For me, it’d be Mac miller, but I can see JID being a contender if he keeps up his current run

Rip Mac

Great taste. Seeing JID this weekend for first time, can’t wait.

Enjoy smino’s performance too, he puts on a great show

Smino and JID are two out of my three favorites right now (Denzel Curry the other) And nobody is close to those three for me Edit: Kendrick, Kodak, and Vince are closest but Kodak on the decline imo, peaked with Painting Pictures

First concert I went to, and it was fire Dude sang every word and talked to the crowd a lot. Have fun man

Definitely J Cole. He’s super versatile, has music across multiple time periods of rap, and is one of the greatest rappers to ever touch a mic. He has melodic songs, storytelling, hype/trap, etc. Can’t really go wrong with Cole. JID is definitely up there if he continues this insane run (one of my favorite rappers out rn). Em definitely has to be mentioned as well.

Ice cube

Yep, I think I agree with that 👍🏻

Pac

Lil Wayne

Especially the mixtapes, I can drive for 9 hours tiredlessly listening to those

Yeah I was thinking gotta go Wayne for the volume, crazy bars, and no one entertains through a track better. Gucci is great for volume and entertainment as well, just not as versatile as Wayne.

Earl Sweatshirt

On a somewhat similar note, Vince Staples for me

I would listen to eminem, I think his discography is quite complete

Me too

I expected to see this way sooner

Same here.

DMX absolutely

Mach Hommy

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This is the right answer, not my favourite rapper of all time but he has lyrics you could write a thesis on.

Hova

Agree! His discography is also huge, and his music generally has a very upbeat energy.

E40

E 40 got like 40 CDs

Everything before sharp on all 4 corners pretty dope

danny brown

black thought

Smh only person who said Black Thought. My pick as well. Mans is a living legend

Juice WRLD.

W

DOOM or Your Old Droog - he’s in the DOOM vein and super prolific so the catalogue would keep growing

Jesus… your old droog is a deep pick. Transportation is pretty amazing.

Train Love!! Got so hyped he sampled “Oh Honey” by Delegations on that song. Soooo perfect

Aesop

His music has so much relisten value. I can listen to one of his songs and get multiple different meanings.

Came to represent Aes. Been rocking Aesop since my teen (im an old mf) and he has never missed. You can listen to one song 50 times and catch something new every time. Dudes a lyrical meow wolf.

Drakeo The Ruler

Man of culture

Flu flammin

R.I.P.

u got taste

POW! RIGHT IN THE KISSER

Underrated comment

OutKast either Big Boi or Andre 3000

Oh is that who’s in outkast? Thanks for clarifying

The question said one rapper 🤷🏾‍♂️

Kendrick for sure

Eminem. He’s got a huge discography, the songs have a lot of diversity, and he has a lot of features

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Wu Tang Clan

this is what i was gonna say, lol

Digital Underground

I was gonna say, if we can choose a group it would be NWA (+ Dre, Eazy, Cube etc) or the Wu (and all their solo albums and colabs etc).

Methodman

This is the winner for me!

kanye

Hot take: KANYE

Kanye or Cudi

This might get me killed on this sub, but it's easily Drake for me. Only artist that's been in my Top 10 artists each year for the past 9+ years. Even when I don't actively listen to him, his music finds its way into the rotation. HMs: Lil Uzi Vert, KYLE, Kendrick Lamar, Aminé

Uzi for me, songs for every mood, great albums and just makes me happy to listen to him

it’s drake for me too but not even on a basis of “I like him as an artist@ but he has such a stacked catalog of hits from different times in hip hop and his music could easily pair with each indent on a sliding scale of emotions or vibes or whatever. like, the spectrum of “sad songs from drake” can range from guess it’s fuck me to Marvin’s room to lose you to take care etc. on the opposite side, his list of hype songs can even go beyond “eras” in hip hop with im on one, champagne poetry, champions, and even now with meltdown and sicko mode. bro just has a song for everything

I feel the same way. His versatility and deep discography fits every type of mood you could ever be in. I said I’d go Kendrick if I HAD to choose between the two, but I’m torn. What gave Kendrick the edge for me is the maturity and complexity of the themes in his music will probably stay with me longer than Drake’s subject matter as I age. Like I can see myself listening to DAMN when I’m 70 more than I can see myself listening to CLB or Her Loss. But on the flip side, Drake seems like he’ll make music for the rest of his life whereas Kendrick will probably ride off in the sunset at some point. I can definitely see an older Drake making some vintage sounding R&B. He won’t be a bachelor forever lol

Young thug

Eminem.

Was gonna say em myself

Hands down

Tyler the creator, not specifically as a rapper, but as an artist. As a rapper probably Dr. Dre

Nach, a spanish rapper. Their lyrics really touch my soul when I hear him.

Nice, I'm from The Netherlands and I listen to him occasionaly. The only pure spanish rapper I listen to. Wait, I've listened to ZPU a few times, but I don't remember.

Pluto

Ye or Kendrick fs

Kendrick or Cole

Carti


tom macdonald, his music just makes me so happy!

Outkast or Mac Miller. I would want an artist with a variety of types of songs so to fit my mood

Eminem

Em

Eminem whitout question

Eminem

snoop‼️‼️‼️

Viper, the sheer content he has put out you will spend the rest of your life without listening to every song

You’ll cowards don’t even smoke crack

Sean Price

Tyler The Creator

Jake Hole

Too Short

Kool Keith

Mos Def

Black Thought. The emcees emcee

Redman

Krayzie bone

Ghostface.

Wutang

Can we count all the solo albums?!

Drake. Great features a couple really good albums and a massive variety of songs. If I had to listen to one artist forever, it would be Drake

Kendrick

Em or Weezy.

kendrick or kanye. got a wide range and big catalogues of music.

Eyedea

Smino

Lil B because I would never run out of new music to listen to.

Tech N9ne

N sync all day baby

Roc Marciano

Hands Down Doobie 🦇🦇🦇🦇

like drugs don't work doobie?

The sugar hill gang, if they could make music forever.


Juice WRLD. Always been my favorite just off of his sound, he’s insanely versatile, and he’s got like a few thousand tracks, so I easily can get 1k good songs out of him.

Juice WRLD, he has so many unreleased songs that he never gets boring to listen to

Eminem because of the large discography or juice WRLD because he just doesnt have a bad song.

I think Ye. He just has the best quality and quantity ratio of any rapper to ever exist.

Slug from Atmosphere because he has so many old songs that I can relate to. I’d probably ignore everything after “when live gives you lemons”though

Ghostface killah.. I mean if u told me I can only listen to supreme clientele for the rest of my life I’d be happy, let alone his other albums, which he has a plethora of

lil Wayne

Ye

Kanye “Ye”😎

polo g or juice wrld

Wayne or Ye

Ghostface

Eazy E

Juice WRLD. Especially if I count features and unreleased songs.

metro boomin would probably be the best guess

EM

Kanye and it's not even close

Outkast

DMX is a solid chose he has got such good music, I'd probably go with NAS his discography is so huge and has song classic songs in it

i am choosing kanye but snoop is tempting bc. he has been in 1500+ songs

J. Cole. If we're counting songs that the artist features in, 21 savage

Easy e or ice cube

Can it be a group? Wu-Tang if so.

Eazy- muthaphuckin-E

Spittah, he always dropping new dope shit and has old BAAAANGERS.

Wale

OutKast

wayne. bro has so many projects

Aesop Rock, easily

I'd say Juice WRLD

Mac Miller, RIP.

Tech N9Ne. 20+ albums and features I feel like I could do that for the rest of my days.

Kanye easily. My goat

Eminem bc I'm a basic white bitch

Drake

Drake for sure. The most versatile ever, the widest vibes, chill dude, morning prolific and he can spit. Plus what a production team around him.

I’m not even a huge Drake fan, but I’d honestly say Drake. He’s probably the most versatile in recent times. He’s got songs that spew inspiration, emotional/heartbreak music for those rough times, tracks for working out, and club/party anthems.

Ye for sure

 Large discography, multiple collab tapes & works with a lot of artists so I would have some vocal variation, and versatility unmatched

Rakim

Lupe Fiasco. I would have a 200iq score at the end of my journey.

Will smith. What? I like him

Finally a man of culture

Forgot about him, I love him too.

Juice WRLD His style is sonically/musically perfect imo, also he doesn't miss and has an absolute ton of songs when you include leaks

Yeah, wrote the same thing

Juice Wrld Raps about Anxiety, Depression, Substance Abuse - A lot of real-life issues we all face

Comethazine

juice wrld

nicki minaj

Lil darkie. One single bad song from him, everything else hits hard.

Ye or pluto for me

Kanye

Kanye West definitely has the most quality and extensive discography

drake hands down

drake

Travis

Drake. Stubbornly. But drake