Kendrick at the top, Q shaping up to be his only real competition because he's shaping up to make The Leap on this major-label debut, Jay Rock was first out but last in folk's thoughts once Black Hippy really got going but he's been killing features since Money Trees, Ab's still sorta just playing that 'esoteric one with the hair' part but hasn't put it altogether as a stand-alone artist yet.

If you caught a show on that Black Hippy/Stalley/BET tour it really hammered that point home.

Ab, like Stalley, was a dude up there rapping during his set.

Kendrick's was an actual show with pacing, crowd work, songs people knew (before GKMC dropped), in the case of the L.A. shows some big cameos from vets paying their respect, etc.