Yeah I guess better artist could kinda be taken in a different way than what I meant. Hov from a rap/hip-hop standpoint is definitely above Drake. what I meant is that Drake can make tracks that Jay-Z simply couldn’t while I feel Drake can emulate Hov in a way and almost rap as well as him at times.

if my career was host of a massively successful radio station i would probably be saying this publicly as well

Lol, imagine thinking this.

Funk Flex been doing this too long to be a chatty patty and have his pom poms out and be this thirsty for clout

Niggas will push a narrative that's literally not true because they know it'll put them on the shaderoom

Sick s***. Ponk.

Distance between them as artists is greater than the distance between them as rappers

Wasn’t that originally supposed to be Drake’s beat & he got salty tho

This why I'm convinced y'all stan Jay to s*** on Drake. He living in your heads

Also Drizzy top 5 to ever do it at this point. “This shout goes out to Hov ‘cause it’s him & then me.”

i’m a big fan of both.

drake can’t rap like jay man. no hate. drake can really rap. but not like peak jay.

Peak Jay damn near untouchable, I agree. I just think Drake can almost get in that same bag at times.

Link of drake songs where he gets in prime jay type bag pls

Jay Z at least as good an artist if not better just off rap and Yall wanna talk about Drake can rap as well

Drake is a better artist because even prime Jay had him making poor music decisions like mimicking the shape of rap in the 90s with Reasonable Doubt (still an amazing album), a dump of unique ideas wasted on a double LP filled with filler like on BP2, hopping on trends like autotune, EDM and trap like on BP3 and WTT and poor marketing ideas utilizing social media and hopping on new trendy s*** like Twitter with Magna Carta.

We've seen Drake reinvent himself with almost every project with a few exceptions (Scorpion) where even then he brought a respectable production lineup and experimented a bit. Drake's vision is overlooked when looking at the artist side of things. Drake albums will still sound fresh in the future while albums like Vol 3, BP2 and Dynasty will sound dated, no shot at Jay-Z's sharp pen, he's still one of the best rappers of all–time.

5AM is Amazing but Jay has multiple albums worth of better or equal rapping

Lets hold pur horses

Drake is drake because he was innovative and versatile

Wrong. And this is such an ignorant statement cause it suggests rapping isn’t an art.

Also being more versatile doesn’t equal being a better overall artist

U really one of the worst posters on here

Agree to disagree

Like I said, my point isn't to debate Drake > Jay but that Drake is an elite, all time level emcee.

Rapping is an art

but so is R&B, and Melody. Hova not even close in that regard.

Being more versatile doesn't equal to being a better overall artist, sure. But in this case, it does IMO.

I don’t think he gets in it, like I said prime Jay is basically a alien. I just think he gets close at times. But if you want my opinion on tracks I think he gets close.

4PM
5AM
Lord Knows
DMCB
Tuscan Leather

Real for Deep Pockets

Great choice and he could hold his own against prime jay in that mode i dig it

Jay was a damn beast tho i feel ppl forget about it

And even so he got effortlessly smoked by Biggie every time (RIP)

Can't believe people were disrespecting SFG in the early pages. Hungry Drake