To put it in terms youll get P... AZ is like a punter yo...he excels at one aspect of the game very well. He does shit that maybe cats cant do. He's apart of the squad....but he lacks versatility. He a special teams nigga. He LITERALLY cant make a radio friendly song so that takes alot from his craft.

I mean shit yo...he has little charisma and not even superior rhyme skillz. I know a dozen niggas that speak that god body shit 24/7 yo. Lol. It dont make them rappers.

Hes too one dimensional yo.

One dimensional? He's taken many angles...from that Let me show-off shit, to story telling, to songs with music videos that have catchy tunes and a mainstream sound like "Undeniable" which was not only the song name, but the album name itself

I know what you mean by that punter analogy. Maybe he never had a Top 100 song on the billboard, maybe he never topped Forbes list with Diddy, Jay-Z, & 50

You don't have to be a rap mogul or an incredibly successful artist to go down as one of the greatest in your genre.

Michael Jordan is considered the best player ever by a lot of people...what i'm tryna say is, around the time Jordan was playin...you don't think there were any niggas out there playin street ball that were as nice as Jordan (or better) but never got their shot?

whether they were serious about going pro and never had the resources or were just amazingly talented at it but only took it as a hobby

There's always that one person that everybody leaves out of the convo, and I just feel like its AZ. That's all it is really

& I agree he probably couldnt make a radio friendly song, other than Undeniable which I thought was a solid attempt at going mainstream...but thats what makes him good.

That, for the most part, he's 9 albums in and its hard for anybody to find one bad verse from the guy. "Longevity"...thats his motto/slogan it seems. He prides himself on that and he only gets better with time

How could you not take that into account. So what if nobody's looking for AZ. You would think that'd make him care less and he'd slack off and put out really shitty music

But every song he drops is a gem as far as him displaying lyrical prowess or dropping knowledge

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This song came out in March, so this is VERY recent AZ... listen to the song, the message, pay attention to the lyrics

all while reminding yourself that its 2012 and someone's still keepin it real with tunes like this

I'm the furthest from a hater you will ever come in contact with... really.

Yeah...but at the end of the day...the street baller stayed in the park and MJ reached new heights...AZ aint unknown. Hes just not that all around nice yo.

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Plus its only one mj and a thousand park legends

And theres always some sideline ass block know it all, that be telling everyone he sees, that the street baller would beat MJ 100-0..

I'm not the dude sayin he'd beat MJ 100-0, I'm more like the dude that goes around telling people "Ya'll should check this guy out, he's pretty good. He might be able to hang with MJ"

That's all I'm really saying. Most of ya'll didnt know or care for AZ before I brought him to your attention. The fact that I planted the seed in your minds and made some of ya'll play back his tracks is a good thing

I'm tryna expand horizons. Too many of ya'll stuck on that Wale and Meek Mill shit

Generalizing the LB masses is usually a bad thing, like racism

tbh i can't say az never nut hugged to get a grammy... all i know is he never got one. still coulda nut hugged

love this one