Is he the worst major rapper in the game right now?

Probably not. There are a lot of shitty rappers "in the game" as of late famalam. The identity crises going down in the genre is pretty funny to watch.

>>71686980
Most definitely, as far as major rappers go. Only runners up are probably Big Sean and Hopsin if you consider Hopsin all that big.

>>71687412
>The identity crises going down in the genre is pretty funny to watch.
this. I follow """the rap game""" not for the music (if you can even call it that), but because of the comedy aspect. It's like satire only they're being serious

>>71687466
fedora

Yes he's the worst

>>71686980
There's much worse: Famous Dex, Yachty, Kodak Black, Rich the Kid, etc. He's actually pretty catchy, has a great ear for melody and switches his flows a lot.

>>71687462
Big Sean and Hopsin may be cringe-worthy occasionally, but they're not by any means bad. Still leagues ahead of all of these mumble rappers.

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>>71687518
Like it or not, it's a complete shitshow.
Give me one major rapper that isn't a complete meme.

>>71686980
He is just painfully mediocre, so mediocre that it is almost worse than if he were just a terrible rapper

Like I can understand some misguided person making a ridiculous song that's supposed to be experimental and have emotional lyrics and releasing it because he like it, even if it's complete trash to everyone else.

But it PISSES ME OFF to imagine this midget fuck recording any one of his songs, going back and listening to it, and just saying eh, good enough. It's like modern elevator music.

>>71687549
You are half right with this statement. Yes, all of those rappers are more terrible than Uzi. However, Uzi does not have a great ear for melody and switching flows while monotonically slurring every word you utter is not an accomplishment.

>>71687555
Chance the Rapper
Kendrick Lamar
J Cole
Joey Bada$$
Lupe Fiasco, etc.

No, there are rappers that are far worse than Lil Uzi

Soulja Boy
Hopsin (not major mainstream success, but one of the biggest rappers in the underground right now)
Famous Dex
Lil Pump
Big Sean (not as bad as the others, but extremely boring)
Lil Peep

>>71687549
What's your definition of bad though, I mean technically they are decent rappers. But, they both have horrendous lyrics, stale and predictable track (more Big Sean their admittedly) and they just don't do anything or have done anything to improve the genre.

Honestly though, Uzi is still worse.

>>71686980
Yes

He literally can't fucking make a cohesive song. XO TOUR lif3 is the only song where he isn't all over the place.

>>71686980
by worst, do you mean, best? maybe not the entire game, but for sure the best southern rapper in the game hands down.

>>71687620
>Uzi does not have a great ear for melody

Manner of opinion I guess. Listen to Buy It, 7AM, XO Tour Life, and Woke Up Like This and see if you still feel that way.

>switching flows while monotonically slurring every word you utter is not an accomplishment

This is how I know you don't listen to his music much. He doesn't really slur that much in his music, at least not as bad as Future or Thug.

>>71687621
>Chance the Rapper
uh oh, you're going to trigger someone

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>>71687621
>Putting J Cole, arguably the biggest meme in hip hop along with Chance the rapper, in your list

>>71687704
I think he already triggered you m8

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>>71687621
>J Cole

>>71687702
You're right in saying I don't listen to a lot of his music. I'll give those tracks a listen and see if it changes my mind. I think Future on his own is complete trash, but Thug is just so damn interesting and he seems to craft up pronunciation entendres while slurring his words so in my mind he gets a pass.

>>71687686
> southern

>>71687555
Vince Staples

>>71687651
Bad = Shitty lyrics. But if you're catchy or have a good flow, it makes you fun/bearable, but not necessarily a good rapper.

Having all three (lyrics, catchiness, flow) is ideal, but lyrics for me means most since that's what the rapper is contributing most to the song.

>>71687719
J Cole is only a meme to white KTT hypebeasts desu.

>LOL IT'S NOT LIT SENPAI

>>71687767
Yeah, Future is fucking terrible. How he gets a pass is beyond me. Literally the definition of low-effort music.

I agree about Thug though. Jeffrey is such a banger.

I'm jokin' on the fact that hip hop has gone freak show / Don't let the drama get ya in the only genre of music where the fans shoot the messenger

>>71686980
No. Uzi can actually spit, he just decided to take his music in a pop direction.

See: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R_xLVzVEyD8

>>71687809
How do you feel about Rick Ross? He has lyrics, catchiness, and flow, but somehow it just doesn't resonate. I feel like rap music is a lot more intricate. You have to live your words it seems. A lot of these new guys are essentially runoff from the post-ironic movement in art. I'm very worried about the state of the game. This is a very slippery slope.

>>71687621
Joey fell off for me especially with the that victory track. Is he still good?

>>71687947
>He has lyrics

Lol Not as far as I can tell. But I haven't really listened to him since Teflon Don. I heard some really good stuff about the new album though. Is it good?

>You have to live your words it seems.

Eh, yes and no. Tyler did a good job trying to be all crazy on his first two mixtapes.

>A lot of these new guys are essentially runoff from the post-ironic movement in art.

Agreed. Lil B was an interesting deconstruction of the genre, but now people are just taking his shtick at face value and copying it. >>71687897

>>71688138
>Rick Ross
He has definitely evolved lyrically since Teflon Don but I'm not saying that it's any good.

>Tyler
I don't think anyone took him seriously though, people take Uzi and those like him from this new generation completely 100% seriously. This is where I get lost and just blame it on post-irony, nobody can be this stupid I hope. Pretty much exactly what you are saying about Lil B is the best way to put this whole mess.

>>71687897
this sucks

>>71686980
Rap is the worst major genre in the game right now.

>>71688195
Yachty = Ironic

Uzi = not very ironic if at all

Ugly God = Ironic

21 Savage = not ironic, though you get ironic hipster for liking him because he's so bad (awaiting some shill to reply saying that his mixtape was one of the best of 2016)

Bones = Semi ironic

XXX = semi ironic

Famous Dex = Not ironic, but people like him ironically because he's so bad

Lil Peep = Ironic

Lil Pump = Ironic

gets pretty depressing how many up and coming rappers (and established) die young. Been playing so much dinnerwithjohn since he died https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hyFivZTDgpk

>>71687948
Victory is a good track. Have you listened to land of the free?

>>71688296
>Gets pretty depressing how [insert shillery here]

I just think a few people listened to it out of irony and it blew out of proportion, since all people I know just copy each other's music taste

>>71688235
underrated post and I lead a hip hop lifestyle

>>71688235
>implying anything is directionless as rock right now

>>71688293
By this metric I can now say that Uzi is the worst rapper in the game.

/thread

Thanks anon

the chorus for you was right grew on me

the fuck, Uzi's latest EP was fire and it's throwaway tracks for his album. most of his other shit sucks, but he is developing unlike a lot of other rappers aka Future. christ Future has the best fucking PR in the business. how they convince every music publication that his "albums" of deserving of merit when they are essentially mixtapes following the philosophy of "quantity over quality", boggles me.

>>71688293
bitch you've probably never listened to The Slaughter Tape, very different from that shit Metro EP which everyone seems to think is the only stuff he has put out besides features.

>>71688368
I was a day one uzi fan. He could actually rap like other anon said and he made fun bangers

>>71687719
>holding any value to Chance at all

He's the worst rapper on that list, and a shitty industry plant.

>>71688436
Not even close

Uzi actually has wordplay and as said before can rap when he wants to

>>71688525
Why would I want to listen to the slaughter tape

he's generic af

>>71688559
>actually has wordplay

This sounds like I'm saying he's on the level of older mcs which he's not, but he does POSSESS wordplay is what I meant, like it's in his music.

>>71687621
>neglecting designer

brrrrrrrrrrrrr

>>71687623
>lil pump
>major rapper

>>71687686
He's from Philly you whore

>>71688538
>>>/KTT/
>>>/reddit/

>>71688538
>Hey guys I don't like his new album because it sounds all happy and shit, he must be getting forced to do it

fucking kill yourself

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>>71688616
>AYE...
>AYE AYE AYE AYE AYE AYE
>DRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRAHHHHHH
>GIT GIT GIT GIT GIT GIT

>>71686980
He grew up as a BLACK """"MAN""""" listening to my chemical romance and marilyn manson. what did you expect?


>5'4"

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>>71690508
>Lil Uzi short as a pencil

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>>71690508
>5'4"
Is this true?

>>71687623
>Hopsin (not major mainstream success, but one of the biggest rappers in the underground right now)

????

>>71687621
3.5 of those rappers are memes
what are you even doing here?

he's a shitty thugger clone
take a shot every time he goes "woah" or "yah"
>>71687549
this, except yachty is probably the best out of these guys that i've heard (not really saying much because his music is still pretty boring to listen to)

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>he listens to rap

>>71691767
Hopsin is huge with juggalos

>>71691767
You do know he's gets 10s of millions of views on his shit right?

>>71686980
I like his music more than Kendrick and all them other lames so

hes still terrible though

>>71690155
I like Chance but he had some pretty shit bars on Coloring Book

>>71687549

kodak black is amazing purely because of how legitimate he is, fuck the actual quality of his music

>>71688325
Land of the free is preachy and adds nothing to the conversation. Musically it sounds good, capital steez handles social issues much more eloquently

>>71686980
Kodak

>>71692660
>comparing someone who actually took the time to sit down at write lyrics to Lil Uzi Vert who just rocks up at a studio and inserts the microphone into his anus

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>>71691708
>>71691647

Yes. In the recent bad and boujee video, I'm surprised more people didn't notice that everytime Migos guys get close to him in frame, they have them either crouch or kneel down to not make him look tiny in comparison.

The only time they're both standing upright, the Migos guys are always way in the background to even out the proportions.

>tfw you have to get people to crouch when near you to not make you look tiny
>pic related

>>71692543
You will too, once you actually hear it. By far the best genre of music. You can get anything out of it.

>>71694441
You mean metal, right?

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>>71694407
Post yfw you're taller than Lil Uzi Vert

>>71694490
>taller than a 5'4" guy

you must be really proud of yourself

>>71694460
Metal doesn't take as much skill as rap. You just need to good yelling voice and edgy lyrics. Earl Sweatshirt, Kendrick Lamar, K.A.A.N, etc.. They all have big vocabularies and story telling abilities. Not to mention amazing schemes and flow.

>>71686980
Is it bad that I think his verse on 'Bad and Boujee' is the best

?

>>71692660
give me an example fuckface

>>71694874
yes because T-shirt was a better song

>>71695097
All Ass is the best song on the album but yeah

T-Shirt > Bad and Boujee

>>71688293
people are starting to mistaken irony for slight self-awareness.

>>71688293
>being ironic in 2017

decade late for that senpai, we are /new sincerity/ now

>>71694407
maybe the Migos are just part slav

>>71686980
that instrumental is pretty good. It's a shame it's ruined by his mediocre droning vocals