Have their heads up their asses or pigeon-holed him into their own rapper's rapper box

Swimming Pools and Poetic Justice are all over radio in Los Angeles. Those are not necessarily commericial or pop songs, but people only say that with todays ears. Before 2004 any type/genre a song could become pop if it gained traction, that's damn near impossible in today's climate and Kendrick was one of the few that broke that mold AND SOLD.

Also Kendrick is the closing verse one of the year's most popular song "Fucn Problems". Outside the lesson (where niggaz hate clubs and women), talkin bout Kendrick sounds "off" on it, he sounds just fine.

Chance is literally emerging from Drake and Kendrick's lanes, so to say that more interesting talk is just personal preference