1. Outkast - ATLiens: 9.67
2. Outkast - Aquemini: 9.53
3. Outkast - Southernplayalisticadillacmuzik: 9.35
1. Kendrick - To Pimp a Butterfly: 8.99
2. Kendrick - good kid, m.A.A.d city: 8.95

3. Kendrick - Section.80: 8.94
4. Outkast - Stankonia: 8.59
4. Kendrick - untitled unmastered.: 8.44
5. Kendrick - DAMN.: 8.21
5. "Outkast" - Speakerboxxx / The Love Below: 7.83
6. Outkast - Idlewild: 7.15
6. Kendrick - Overly Dedicated: 6.65


one thing that I've found interesting about the 2000s, though, is aside from rappers who clearly abused themselves like Lil' Wayne or ran out of things to say like Jay-Z, it's really never been a better time to be a rapper. The genre's been around long enough most artists have learned what works and doesn't and it's a lot harder for rappers to make straight up bad albums anymore unless they get forced to work under a tight budget.

Like I think about OutKast, and when they got "bad" they got "bad" mostly because they got experimental and bored, or Ice Cube/insert rapper her because he got mega successful and bored. Whereas I think a lot of today's artists are going to get "bad" because they get stagnant and boring.


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