Dessa is still the best rapper on Earth IMO, pls consider "Decoy" as further evidence:
One of many really great songs. She's the first woman I'd ever rank as the best rapper alive, period. The fantastic production she gets from Lazerbeak doesn't hurt, but she's the writer, the performer. She's amazing. I adore all of Doomtree, Steph is my second-favorite rapper and Sims ain't far behind (and Mike and Cecil are great!), but Dessa is, I dunno, a unicorn.
And, I don't know how to say this, but Macklemore's "
" is so much better than any dumb white boy that ever texted kendrick to apologize for winning a Grammy should be.
Mack is such a weird case. He's legit talented as fuck but made a bunch of stupid race-bait songs in his early career instead of just being a good artist, which he did later, and then people got mad at him. Gonna be like grad theses on this cracker in a few decades.