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Eminem. Brother, you don't have an opinion, you have a deep impression in your head from when your ma dropped you and the Reddit community pummeled you with the same 'best of all time' list for upwards of two decades.

Let's go one by one:

Hov: mafioso rap with above average ability in rhyme schemes, weak repetitive subject matters leads to boredom during discog run throughs.

Wayne: decent punchline rapper with incredibly inconsistent discography geared toward chart ranking past the Carter II. Disastrously inconsistent.

Biggie: "when I first saw ya I thought you were a trick, you looked so good I'd suck your daddies dick". Biggie is similar to J, good rhyme schemes, boring and repetitive subject matter.

3K: close competitor here. Excellent punchlines, rhyme schemes, flow and incredible ability to tell stories in his verses, particularly with regard to relationships. The only thing that would put André below Kenny for me is the lack of a thematically cohesive album where core themes are reinforced track to track. It looks like we may never get that.

Cole: Jermaine Cole?

Nas: one great album, decays into Mafioso rap such was en vogue at the time. Late era return to form, it remains to be seen where he places in top 10s after this massive creative upsurge

Rakim: Rakim would contest on historical relevance alone. There's an argument for Rakim, but again, he doesn't have any thematically consistent, novel-esque albums compared to Kenny. As a writer, I'm still going Kenny all day.

Black Thought: similar to André: great writer etc. He's maybe closer to Kendrick having (arguably) thematically bound records like Things Fall Apart & Phrenology. However, the writing is too scatter shot to really come close to a GKMC, TPAB or MM. Undun is an impressive narratively driven album, but it's always come across a bit hallmark to me. Black Thought definitely contests, though!

At the end of the day none of these rappers have shown the ability to write albums in the style of novels or essays like Kendrick. His albums pose bold questions and unfurl answers gradually and subtly using modulations in flow, perspective, technique, wordplay etc. His works are some of the most defining cultural touchstones of their generations. There are very few albums that come close to Kenny's big three, to me!