'realness' as a qualifying measure of an urban artists talent IS perceivable. I'll try to break this down for you, with out sounding too ignorant.

Both of these two artists make music for other people, they dont just sit in the bedrooms and record only for their own pleasure, correct? Com has changed and gone to another level in his sound, attracting a different type of listener. Bun B has not. He doesn't rely much on metaphors or wordplay, he's much more straight forward then Com is or was. The beauty of a Com verse was that you had to listen to it, a few times, to catch everything the cat was trying to get across...Bun is more lowest common denominator, there is no second level or varying degrees of depth to his lyrics, he says whatever and thats exactly what he means. Ppl can relate easier to Bun than they can to Com. The typical hip hop listener, on hearing tracks from either of these two, would be more inclined to remember one of Buns lines, than one of Com's simply because they didn't have to figure it out.

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