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Originally Posted by Óðinn
Honestly, there is many to consider. We all view each craft in a different way: Text, Audio and Tracks.
There is also the time period or "era" of each candidate to be considered as well. The competition at "their time" and so on. Its not such an easy task to say who's the GOAT as many of us are from different era's and have seen the rise (and fall) of different people in different categories. You can't say person A from 2006 is worse than person B from 2012 (really) as the craft evolved over time. Same as Hip Hop itself.
Text: (in no order)
DaDDiO
Jason
Mayneak
RULE
Lockhart
Bleu
Seul
Audio: (in no order)
Bleu
Lockhart
Phil Banks
stric
Krhyme Killz
Seul
Bnas (lol)
Ticket
ALL BORO
M-Rock
Tracks: (in no order)
Just C
Punk
ALL BORO
M-Rock
These lists are just off the top of my head, if i spent more time on it, there would be more added to the list. As i said above, its not an easy question as there are many factors to be thought of.
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I'm seeing a lot of recency bias in your list..like I said earlier, Real Talk would probably have a slot in all 3 of those categories. People were dominant in different eras. At one time Danger Rich, Saint C, & Tha Duke ran the audio section & had some dope diss tracks too. Meta 4/So Amazin/Mahvulus, YOU WISH/UNKNOWN ARTIST had their stretches of dominance regardless of if they won a tournament or not. Illimit is another dude I'd throw up for text/audio/track.
Imo the GOAT picks weigh more if you're looking at people active from 2006 - 2014 because the talent pool was so much bigger back then vs the 2014 - 2022 talent pool & that's not a shot at anyone who's been winning tourneys post 2014 but we've been complaining about the site being dead since the early 2010's which is around the time there was a mass exodus of talent.
At the very least we're comparing an era that had 500 active members, 40-50 dope ones, 64 man tournaments to an era with 50 active battlers, 10-15 dope ones, struggling to fill 16 man tournaments. 2014 - 2022 was favorable to everyone who participated in 5 tournaments a year because when you're dealing with 16 - 32 people you already have better odds than the 2006 era battlers qualifying for a spot in a 64 man tournament.