>Favourite=the one *you* like best?
>Best=the best by some objective standards?
>
>Since Group Home couldn't rap very well, they can never be the
>best, only a favourite, right?
>
>However, Aceyalone raps better than practically everyone in
>this poll from a technical standpoint, he had concepts for
>days and so on, yet only one person even mentioned "All balls
>don't bounce".
>

You can still be a better rapper from a technical standpoint and not make the best music. See Soul On Ice. What's so hard for you to understand?


>Clearly, how much we value various things on a hip-hop album
>is highly subjective, these objective standards you are
>implying don't really exist. It's perfectly possible that
>someone can feel that the quality of the beats on "Living
>proof" compensates for any weaknesses in the emceeing.

They could feel that way just like I feel they don't compensate.

To me, the marriage of everything should equal the best.

Carmelo is possibly the best offensive player in the NBA but no one is saying he is the best because someone like Lebron plays at a high level in many different facets of the game.

I don't want an album with a great rapper and terrible beats and I don't want an album with great beats and a terrible rapper.