Yeah it's not an exhaustive list at all. Some just haven't be included and others (more major omissions) don't have enough material.
Oh I see, I get the same error. Click some name in the list then use the up or down arrows to navigate (if you're on desktop) then it'll start highlighting people.
Action Bronson's up there too. Bronsolini making his presence known.
I can't tell from your post if you picked up on this or not, but the "vaudeville villain" and MF Doom are the same person. That said, if you aren't familiar with MF Doom, yeah, check him out. I'd personally start with Mm... Food.
I recall a line from him that went something like "I crept into the cellar door like earthworms to the petrichor" that actually made me google what petrichor meant.
no i assumed that was who the poster was referring to! love the phrase, and what i think it entails. totally checking them out.
You can be complex without using tons of words. Sometimes it's really impressive to express a complex and impactful idea in very few words. I would argue that Billie Holiday's one line of "Southern trees bear strange fruit" was/is more impactful than tons and tons of lyrical miracle hip-hop songs.
He's one of the ones that were left out because of not enough material, not just left out on purpose by the author.
I mean, Shakespeare was making up a bunch of words as he went along so maybe DMX needs to be reevaluated.
Pretty much anybody out of Hellfyre would top the list.
Biggie probably never hit 35,000 words, which is the criteria for this comparison.
Actually made up words do count for this! Probably not diverse barks though.
I'd actually love to see where Milo ranks. I'd imagine he's pretty high up there.
Definitely, but lyrically it feels like subject matters have shrunk. It's not necessarily a bad thing. I love big dumb chant worthy anthems as much as the next person, but that sentence didn't make much sense to me.
Author probably referring to the genre as a whole, which is why he brings up song structure in the same sentence. You could argue less complex lyrical content dumbs down the entire genre but I guess he's referring to the complexity of individual components.
Really? I feel like subject matter is more broad than ever across the entire scope of the genre.
Open Mike Eagle would also crush, dude writes short stories into his songs.
Well that seems like a pointlessly arbitrary cut off. Why not just place him as is and see how he stacks up. Even with the disadvantage I'd bet he's pretty high up there.
