Kendrick Lamar
“If Pirus and Crips all got along / They'd probably gun me down by the end of this song.”
The first non-classical or jazz musician to win the Pulitzer Prize for Music, Kendrick Lamar combines theatrical voice modulation, multi-layered internal rhyme schemes, and novelistic album structures with undeniable West Coast battle urgency.
RHYME DENSITY
97
MULTIES
97
STORYTELLING
100
PUNCHLINES
97
FLOW POCKET
99
VERIFIED FREESTYLES & CLASSIC 16s (1)
Cypher Session • BET Hip Hop Awards Cypher (Over 'Shook Ones Pt. II') (2013)
2013 TDE BET Hip Hop Awards Cypher
“Yeah, and nothing's been the same since they dropped 'Control' / And tucked a sensitive rapper back in his pajama clothes.”