"Being innovative, having critical acclaim, and possessing lyrical skill are paramount in the conversation about the greatest of all time."
"I'm here in the session, teaching y'all a lesson, when it comes to rhymes, man, I'm also impressing."
"Nas really perfected his craft as a writer MC and storyteller with it was written."
"This is what everybody should want for hip hop. It should be nothing behind... this is just a battle of who's the wittiest, who's the smartest..."
"Freezing with this rap, y'all say your girl name never, y'all enjoying the lie when I spit I help the people."
"Shout out to your daughter's name Arya, when they come to raps ain't nobody hardest bro."
"Evergreen bars bout to last forever! Everytime I spit, yo the flow is raw." - H Mack
"His bars on six god are just way better than me, way better."
"Dave is hands down the best lyricist and storyteller I've personally heard."
"Being a good Lyricist has plenty of variance."
"I got more rhymes than the Bible got Psalms."
"I'm the type to kill a pacifist, or chemical combustion, I'm the analyst of metaphors and similes."
"Every lyric, every bar is a freezer, I apply the pressure and y'all know I never ease up."
"Scarface, one of the most topically focused and lyrically talented rappers to ever come out of the South."
"Even if I'm rhyming off, the words are so fat that it distracts from the problem."
"MF DOOM is literally the epitome of a wordsmith."
"very catchy flows, clever wordplay and lyrics, and a fantastic instrumental"
"Daylight is a freak man, his rhyme pattern, the level of genius that boy got."
"I drop bars that's major with flavor like curry."
"Rappers got bars I can hang with the Backpackers."
"Hairy Mack, I make you holla, I'm the lyrical scholar, I'm standing taller, she got her tongue on the collar, I'm the one to really do it, they go mad, my lyrics never bad."
"Every single verse is a grand slam like baseball, H-Mac I'm on it, I'm about to make you bug out."
"You don't want a beef with Eminem. He shreds him seeds like for real."
"I got Perfect Vision in the dark. I'm a lexicon, I'm a Megalodon on my verses, ripping I'm apart."
"If you're utilizing devices such as polysyllabic rhyme schemes, punch lines, metaphors, simile, alliteration, if you're using the tools that define you as a lyricist, then you're lyrical."
"Doom's ability to weave words together is absolutely insane."
"Street poetry, the imagery that he conjures up with his words every single time."
"First name messiah rap so hot I spit yoga fire everything you preach."
"Jay-Z and Nas, in terms of their verbal command, are at Shakespearean level of creation."
"I know my flows are fire, all my talent you desire. I'll take over your empire, force a green man to retire."
"It's interesting to see how using that ability to rhyme and stay on beat and your flow, your cadence could even evolve as an artist."
"Crown me the queen of rap because I'm coming with these bars."
"Game is a dope rapper. There's some very good bars that are laced throughout this diss track."
"Overall, it sounds decent, and there's a segment in the third verse where Eminem has almost every word in each line rhyme—it sounds great."
"It's brilliant how he fills space with just the most basic words. And the 'wait'—something about telling me to wait knowing you're about to rap."
"Folklore is easily the best thing Taylor has ever done in her life ever lyrically."
"It's a gift to me, I don't just spit flames lyrically but literally." - Dan Bull
"Spit up the top so my brain just busts all of my lyrics spontaneous."
"Every time I spit, I'mma get away with murder."
"Nas' lyrics are always vivid; you can always make them into a movie."
"If I was reviewing this album strictly based off of lyrics then of course Eminem will probably get some of the higher scores out of any artist I've ever reviewed."
"Man I feel just like a star with the flows, but I'm coming with so much heat, I know you can."
"His greatest gift was to take a sad song and make it better."
"The way that he starts off this first verse got a new deal just r a train on the label you know they're not real."
"Combines a sugary sweet hook with clever verses."
"He absolutely shines, his talent just as lyrically speaking is absolutely off the charts." - Eric
"This song is the epitome of top-tier storytelling, top-tier rapping, and just top-tier songs in general. This is one of Kendrick's crown jewels, a 12-minute two-part song telling a story from the perspective of different people."
"Yo what are you talking about right now? On some rap [ __ ], she's going to outrap everybody on this list."
"Lyrical drugs, y'all overdose it every time."
"He's a different beast when it comes down to his pen game. He's one of my favorite rappers of all time."
"Every time that I spit, the rap is magic, got the rapping tactics and I stretch over tracks like it's acrobatics."
"She killed a verse like she's rapping people that asked me is he singing or rapping is like not she she bore no that's he for a rap she said."
"Every time I spit, they gonna come surround, can't nobody dumb it [__]."
"Even when you did a song, the anthems... that album featuring RZA, KRS-One, Kool G Rap, Eminem... your bars played all right."
"I'm about to put it down for y'all, every time I spin my lyrics they be loving this."
"Intelligent with mine, they calling me a brainiac, I be spitting fire, hold up wait pyromaniac."
"The cadences are so on point, I'm like man those are some masterful [ __ ] verses."
"Psychodrama by the budding star Dave deservedly took home the Mercury Prize for this remarkable effort and it's great to see a spotlight pointed straight at an artist with such poetic wordplay."
"He's one of the most respected MCs in the game. Actually you'll be hard pressed to find anybody who's pen is more tighter than this guy right here."
"I take it back to the era of the skills. Every time he rhymes, they know he brings the terror."
"There's never been a time in hip-hop where the top god wasn't a lyricist."
"Juvenile's word play was incredible, and his soulful voice took over every song he recorded."
"...I think Young M.A. is one of those lyrical rappers that are up."
"For the last decade y'all have mentioned Jay with Hove and Jay positions himself that way unarguably one of the greatest tracks ever with 'Exhibit C' that is God-level rhyming."
"I'm about to spit apocalypse, oh lord, the words are moving fast, so imma have to rewind the hourglass."
"My lyrics are colossal, word to Crustaceans, I leave a permanent mark like a fossil."
"I kick a skill like Shaquille holds a pill, vocabulary spills I'm Ill, plus Matic."
"Lyrical ability, he won. I think he's one of the best we have."
"I'll get you there. You can try and read my lyrics off of this paper before I lay 'em."
"If aliens invaded Earth and was like, somebody got a spit of 16 and if it ain't fire we turning all y'all to dust, I think we got to nominate Black Thought."
"Write my curses in cursive, I get accustomed to a customer you ain't accustomed to going through customs."
"I got bars that's day for day, slick wreck of this modern day."
"He effortlessly delivered bars for hours on end showcasing his lyrical proficiency and originality."
"I be shining like two suns, lyrically I got two sons, Tatooine."
"Everyone knows how to rap, everyone can land a punchline, everyone's good, but it depends on the approach that you take."
"I be getting loose with raw lyrical flames."
"She got more bars than I got on my damn staircase."
"Lyrically I'm about to smash this, most of my haters can't really see, they need to go get some glasses."
"Elite lyricism, top-notch writing, great skill on display, hip-hop I love this."
"Based on this verse alone, my flow certified."
"He's really setting out here to throw bars at people."
"I prefer his lyrical ability over Pac. To me, Pac was hard, but Biggie was lyrical."
"This is Taylor Swift at her most lyrically focused."
"It's lyrical genius how pressure this verse turns them to diamonds."
"Every time I rhyme, I'm about to make it evident."
"Lyrics straight pure, can't they say Mac be one of the greatest?"
"I'm getting busy with the illest flare, I got the rapper's head on my plate, no silverware."
"He's one of the best battle rappers but he's one of the best writers in the game."
"Cole taking lyricism and bringing it to a whole different level."
"The bars all interweave well, the sports references connect but sound effortless."
"Compare me to lightning, that similarity's striking. Compare me to Jaws, compare me to Manson, Marilyn or Charles, compare me to Nas, Biggie or Pac, do not compare me to that Iggy [__] or all this [__] Milli Vanilli hip hop."
"It's just too much lyrical content, a high standard of lyrical ability."
"When they ask who's got bars, they don't think kamikaze. Ain't in jail, they told me I'm ill in the head, well sick like cold, but I ain't been well."
"I'm from that lyrical cloth of raps."
"Pyromaniac, lights on the fire, coming off the top of the brain, I'll be your dragon the way I spit flames."
"I still gotta prove, I still gotta show, I still gotta display who I am as one of the best lyricists again and again."
"I put time into rhyme and insight into violence."
"Yeah, when it comes to the rhymes, I got 'em losing control."
"You can still show your lyrical wizardry at the same time."
"I keep it warm like blankets or the comforter, kick an ill flow, I know that y'all can feel those, rappers be soft like down pillows."
"When you listen to G Rap, you clearly get it. Oh man, his lyrical game was masterful, just incredible the way he played with words."
"I'm the freestyle boss, when it comes to lyrics, I don't never take a loss."
"Real life, we don't go off hype, no pressure, drop jewels and the flow caught nice."
"I'm about to break your stance, Harry met with lyrics way too advanced."
"This man is rapping; he's got words and layers and metaphors flying everywhere."
"I spit with colloquialisms, focus and listen; I'm fixing to overdose and go Kobe on this one."
"I hit him with the illness of my quill, I'm endowed with certain unalienable skills."
"I've said this before, I would actually put King Crooked in top five lyricists of all time."
"You know what I'm about, I'm about the bars, I'm about the talent over politics, I'm about the culture."
"I got skill and tactics to do lyrical backflips; imagery with similes reimagine my graphics."
"Nas is the greatest MC of all time and his relevancy and his activity as a premier and top-notch lyricist makes you not miss Kendrick as much."
"You have done nothing but prove over and over again how good an emcee you are."