Is Eminem the the best lyrical rapper ever?

[AirGauge23]

If you told Em to make a rhyme about anything that would totally outdo anything those guys have ever done, he could do it.

Kevin Durant> Em

[LALakerFan4Life]

Who is the best Midwest MC? Eminem, Kanye West, Common or Lupe Fiasco? Please don't say Nelly.

[i seen hippos]

Kevin Durant> Em

doubtfull.

[IversonMelo2K7]

Chino XL
Pac
BIG
NAS
Percee P
Chuck D
Common
Mos Def
Talib Kweli
Rakim
KRS
Lord Finesse

Only Big, Nas, and Pac have put out albums as classic as the Slim Shady LP and the Marashall Mathers LP.

[garytalarino]

If you told Em to make a rhyme about anything that would totally outdo anything those guys have ever done, he could do it.

I shouldn't have to. Put it on wax - bottom line. Put up "Criminal" or "Just Don't Give a F**k" against "Get By", "Mathematics", "A Song for Assata", "Propaganda", "Believe", etc. It's not even close...

[i seen hippos]

we're not on the same wave length here.

[NoGunzJustSkillz]

man, i'm bout to throw some old em in. i think stan was his most creative song ever. i remember the first time i heard it, i was like whoa. whats that joint called where he talks about looking for BIG's killers in the begining? that was hot. and the one where he jumps off with i sit back with this bag of this weed that gets me... after his second cd though, i stoped listening. btw pac is the goat. lyricaly big and em were better, but i can give you some material from pac hat showed he did have lyrical skills.

[poorlilrich]

Eminem might have good lyrics, but all his songs sound the same. They always have similar sounding beats.

Biggie was a better lyricist than Eminem; I hate the son of a *****, but you gotta respect him.

[poorlilrich]

yeah em is the best

says the white guy who would buy anything with a backward E on the cover.

[garytalarino]

we're not on the same wave length here.

Jay-Z, "Moment of Clarity", the Black album:

If skills sold
Truth be told
I'd probably be
Lyricly
Talib Kweli
Truthfully
I wanna rhyme like Common Sense
(But i did five Mil)
I ain't been rhymin like Common Sense
When your sense got that much in common
And you been hustlin since
Your inception
F**k perception
Go with what makes sense

It's certainly possible that Em could outrhyme anybody on any given topic if you asked him to. But who knows? Maybe MC Eiht could do the same thing. As long as you're making songs like "*** On Everybody", "My Fault", and "Superman", he's doing it simply for the money a lot of the time.

[The_Pope]

Rappers who are better than both Eminem and Tupac:
Nas
KRS One
Talib Kweli
Mos Def
Canibus
Ras Kass
GZA
Raekwon
Ghostface
Inspectah Deck
MF Doom
MF Grimm
Big L
Notorious B.I.G
Rakim
Prodigy
El-P
Killah Priest

[Suns#1]

Rappers who are better than both Eminem and Tupac:
Nas
KRS One
Talib Kweli
Mos Def
Canibus
Ras Kass
GZA
Raekwon
Ghostface
Inspectah Deck
MF Doom
MF Grimm
Big L
Notorious B.I.G
Rakim
Prodigy
El-P
Killah Priest

add Black Thought

[different107]

I'm not much of a rap guy, but I never really had a problem with Eminems stuff...I dont know why though

[garytalarino]

[QUOTE=The_Pope]Rappers who are better than both Eminem and Tupac [QUOTE]

(that's nonsense - let's just go with Em):

Nas+
KRS One+
Talib Kweli+
Mos Def+
Canibus+
Ras Kass+
GZA+
Raekwon- too much garbage, no excuse for the Immobilarity album
Ghostface+
Inspectah Deck- one good single (Word on the Street) and one good guest spot (Above the Clouds) does not a good MC make
MF Doom- must have at least sold 100k copies (aka "record going aluminum"), even lifetime, to qualify
MF Grimm- see MF Doom
Big L- may have gotten a chance if he wasn't killed, but too much guns and drugs lyrics, overpowering the other stuff
Notorious B.I.G+
Rakim+
Prodigy- studio gangster who will put a cap in your head, if he can reach you from his mansion at the East End of Long Island
El P- so underground his mother doesn't recognize him
Killah Priest- somehow, he didn't offer a refund to people like me who bought the Heavy Mental album

[Duck Rodgers]

Yes.