By: cheap_suit

It’s impossible to disagree that vocab is not the sole, or even the best, gauge of a rapper’s talent. And it’s kind of obvious that the dude responsible for these charts isn’t exactly an authoritative hip hop journalist.

Still, I’m kind of amazed that there are people who say they’d really take DMX, on the whole, over Aesop Rock. Is this just part of the blanket rejection of indie rap, which has lost a lot of its countercultural shine thanks to the New Weird Mainstream (Lil B, Riff Raff, etc.)? Or are people just thinking of the three DMX songs they actually remember and ignoring the fact that the majority of his 15+ year career has been spent doing exactly the same thing over and over again?