----- This made Q feel like the most captivating TDE artist at the time. All the nerd kids in the high schools preferred Kendrick off the bat. -----

----- For a while, Q was better than Kendrick. He was more dynamic as a rapper, made a much better album, was more fun to follow on a daily basis, was less didactic as an artist.-----

----- Kendrick fans that long for his independent days are as delusional as his call to forget about your ethnicity. Despite including the excellent “Rigamortus,” Section.80 is an overrated record that tries for half-baked ideas on Society™ like someone who slept through the class on Reaganomics. Its attempts at tinfoil-hat galaxy-brain raps pale compared to Goodie Mob and Prodigy, or even Kendrick’s own post-Obama-administration work. The raw writing on the record aspires to be something you’d read on Reddit; instead it lands at the Hotep section of the Black Student Union of USC.-----

stereogum.com/2172245/schoolboy-q-habits-contradictions-turns-10/reviews/the-anniversary

that’s how i remember it. q was much more approachable while k was mostly appreciated by nerds

Kendrick never made Hands on the Wheel

Oxymoron was never and has never been a better album then GKMC

Stereogum tripping big time.

If it’s oxymoron vs gkmc it’s gkmc by a slight bit. But blind threats man

so real

he was never better. Im tired of you f***ing nerds tryna over compensate cause you got it wrong so many years ago youre doing the most to make up for it

Damn I thought stereogum was the name of some nigga. I was trying to find a f***ed photo of him to post

Both classics

facts

Kendrick fans that long for his independent days are as delusional as his call to forget about your ethnicity.

Well, good thing nobody is doing that!

Absolutely

yea i saw this article when it dropped. the writer hates kendrick for some reason. he also said DAMN is the best kendrick album.

Music writing is at an all time low

Just look at the state of the third paragraph in op and the way s*** is phrased

Purely to generate clicks and social media talk

It’s ironic to say all this now that Kendrick Lamar is the most widely acclaimed rapper on the planet. good kid m.A.A.d. city added to a lineage of classics about coming of age in a neighborhood meant to get you to turn on one another. To Pimp A Butterfly is a claustrophobic and unrelenting album about depression and the status Kendrick feels as a Black man in this country. TPAB and DAMN., his best one, are both widescreen albums about his dynamic as a Black celebrity in America. They have the look of serious records, and they are, with songs like “Alright” becoming rallying cries for a movement (much to my chagrin because of his sometimes conservative politics).

CLOWN WRITER

Q loses by default for never giving us a collab mixtape with Rocky

If anyone is underrated it's Jay Rock. 90095 was great and Redemption got overlooked for having more refined pop sensibilities.

he was better when Kenny was making Section 80 (sucks ass but showed potential) and Q was making Habits & Contradictions (fucking classic) for sure.

the author of the article

so kendrick was making mysterious music is what they saying?

I don’t know about that. You could say they were atleast an equal level of great.

GKMC > Oxy however.

Edit: wait you think Section.80 sucks ass????

Peak Schoolboy Q had some very dope songs, some easier to listen to than Kendrick music. But as a rapper he's not close to Kendrick and has never been

Kendrick Lamar is the greatest rapper of all time