Analytic Dreamz: Notorious Mass Effect - "ANALYTIC DREAMZ TOP 5 HIP-HOP RAPPERS (2023)"

Episode Date: January 22, 2024

Linktree: https://linktr.ee/AnalyticMic check, one-two. It's Analytic Dreamz here, stepping into the arena to drop the hottest takes on the year's most seismic rap titans. We're talking lyrical assassins, flow architects, and beat bangers who redefined the game in 2023. This ain't your average countdown, folks. This is a deep dive into the minds, music, and movements that shattered expectations and rewrote the rap rulebook.Get ready to:Uncover the bars that blistered and verses that blazed: Analytic Dreamz dissects the wordplay, flow, and technical mastery that set these top dogs apart.Go beyond the beats: We're breaking down the production choices, cultural influences, and social commentary that fueled these rappers' fire.Hear the stories that shaped the sound: From rising stars to seasoned veterans, Analytic Dreamz paints a vivid picture of the journeys that led these artists to the top.This ain't just a list, it's a critical analysis, a celebration of artistry, and a prediction of who's poised to dominate the scene in the years to come. So, strap in, hit play, and prepare to be schooled by the Analytic Dreamz himself. This is Notorious Mass Effect, and we're about to crown the kings of 2023 hip-hop.Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

This is only for the real spitters. The real rappers, the real boom-bat type floaters. This is hip-hop top five rappers of 2023. Obviously, it's my own personal list. So take that with a grand assault. As everybody has their own preference, music is subjective. But for me, my top five rappers are, list is very interesting in the fact that I don't think it's ever looked like this.

Going throughout my history, which if you want to see my documentation of music, basically just click my link tree towards the bottom. You will see what I'm currently listening to and you'll see my public playlist. I basically have a whole archive of all my favorite songs throughout the years and you can probably get a glimpse into how I like to listen to music and what stood out to me and what's my favorite so anyways um top five rappers of 2023 is an interesting one because number five which is it's not going to take um i'm not going to take up too much of your time because when i talk about real spitters obviously there's not a lot of them so it was pretty easy pickings i mean when you actually attempt to rap and put words together then you're probably going to end up on

this list i ain't going to lie to you but as far as my top five i feel like these rappers obviously should be on here so at number five not going to lie to you has to be mr quavius now why is it quavo i want you out of why is quavo on my top five rappers list is literally because he came out with something that i think was just one of his best bodies of work ever i think um the whole tribute album called rocket power it's just a masterfully crafted album to the point where i had to put him on my list is the top five rappers because if you notice no rappers on this list did not put out an album and if you only have features if you only have singles you're not going to end up on my list because you're not putting out the same material as people i think they're also given the same level

of quality when it comes to lyrics because as far as putting words together quavo was really given some bars and also gems on this album i mean to start off basically having the chorus let me see I don't think that was it which one was the single was it fueled up I don't think it was like that

I'm trying to find which one I was talking about I'll hear this greatness so after listening to hold me after listening to greatness after a lot of a lot of tracks multiple tracks off his album I realized that this man Quavo was actually taking time

to put lyrics and meaningful lyrics into this album, which, you know, over the time, over time, you were realized that mego sonically definitely has a certain sound that you like to hear, but as far as lyrics, you probably ain't paying too much attention to. Like, as long as they rhyming, we don't really care. So anyways, this man was actually putting words together and basically talking about how greatness is. And obviously, at the end, he was talking about how takeoff.

but there was a specific part in this track. I think it's right. Oh, yeah, here it is. I know I can't look backwards that's dangerous. I had to go read the Bible and take a few pages, hunt your influence. Now I turn pages. I turn to pages.

Never forget that the mego's amazing. Look at the ice and nod in my pants. You know that them young people made it. Your mind right, little, well, that's an expert. You never know you could be famous. I got this out the mud. caught a little buzzed and QC changed it like he's actually given some personal um reflection and that's always my favorite thing when you give actual personal tidbits of your life in the music because i feel like

it's like a vessel for um getting your emotions across and who wants to hear somebody else's emotions like uh everybody else is taken so why not just be you so anyways he said what else was it was some other it was another bar he said i think it was the biggest one never forget the me was amazing but then i honestly fueled up was good um hold up was probably come i'm trying to give you some tracks that that really showed him that he was uh you know he was really getting his bars off so i would say greatness rocket power um let's see yeah that's basically so anyways um like i said 2023 for hip-hop I go say the bar was in you know what but hey Cravo made my number five so you already know what that mean

so anyways number four this is going to be the most outlandish one for me personally because I feel like he should have came in higher but personally looking at it from my perspective and looking at the Lagrange landscape I feel like he could have touched on a certain more topics and gave us more introspective bars as my favorite track from him was the most introspective one

and he really only had like two of those before he put out his extension for all the dogs so yes I know this is going to surprise a lot of people but Drake is on number four for all the of my top five rappers of 2023 I can't even get it out it's it's it's flabbergasting to me how my goat came in at number four on my list for top five rappers of 2023

because the people ahead of them I just felt like gave a lot more unique flows and sonically performed just at a higher level because I always say I mean, Drake has a limited vocal range, right? But still, he works with it and he is like the Tom Brady of hip-hop.

You know, he has a limited range of talent, but he really maximizes his potential. So he's still the goat, though. Don't get it twisted. He's still the goat putting up numbers, switching from Latin music to UK drill if you want to. So don't get twisted. But anyways,

the reason, why does this list look like this? One in the world? Oh, goodness. Let me see. Why did that list look like that? That was weird. Genius be doing everything. For all, genius, be doing

everything and nothing at all why is this what let me just search it hopefully pulls it up can we pull up the english version we got that they ain't got the english version i mean obviously it's english but i don't know what oh also um analytic dreams video on spotify to see the video along with the audio but basically i'm trying to pull up his album right now i don't know why genius is acting like this of the dray here we go the regular list i don't know what the other list was all right so as you can see 29 tracks is crazy but um anyways that's the extension so before it was just 22 which is still a lot but anyways which was also 22 for niki but we're not going to spend too much time on drake because i just

don't want to keep highlighting the fact that he's one of my favorites but i had to be honest and say that he really didn't um outperform these other rappers when it comes to rapping in 2023 and like of course songmaking is different than rapping, but as far as the lyrical ability and even the extension with Scary Hour's edition, I don't think he was rapping better than these other rappers that I have ahead of him.

And I think, honestly, the critiques of his subject matter is valid, but I would say the way that he did it with Scary Hours was too on the nose. Like, he kept saying he kept saying likea likea

likea was like uh i think conjunction is the right word when you're rapping and you use a conjunction that many times in a row it starts to stand out to people who listen to you a lot

you don't usually use the same conjunction when you're putting bars together and for Drake he kept saying oh, I'm rapping like a something, some, some, or I'm doing this like a some some, or I'm doing this like a something.

Like, it was just not really flowing organically. It was very forced. Like, why are you using that same conjunction over and over and over again? Like, I'm just like, bro, switch it up. Like, there's other ways to get metaphor and similes without combining it with a likea. Say something. And make it make sense without I'm doing this like a bad boy in this 60s. Like, no, bro, like you got to stop saying, like a, like you something else.

That's the only thing. That was really, that was really bothering me that, that Drake kept doing that. Because throughout the whole album before the extension, and he did say he made scary hours in like, what, two days. So it makes sense. But still, Drake, do better, rap better. And as far as songmaking, obviously, top tier. Like, songmaking and straight rapping is a little different.

hopefully y'all know that so anyways um because this is a rapping list not best songmaker best rapping list uh doja cat comes at number three i know that was abrupt transition but um i'm gonna need some holy water throughout this whole segment because let me tell you something doja cat was really putting it up for me like i know you see that and you see her you know worshiping the devil um wanting to give her soul to satan you know all that good stuff well not good stuff but all that uh blasphemy stuff and um blasphemous stuff and i was messing with it i like the album she rapping she giving bars i mean talk about you know how i struggle to find songs for quavo i didn't really find too many songs with drake besides away from home as like ones that i think he put his

life perspective into the track um doja cat really went off on y'all she was like i'm tired of y'all talking about me and guess what i'm gonna have a bunch of songs talking about exactly that and one of my favorite of course I already said paint the time red in my earlier segment but for this one I'm talking about I think it was this one was it's a uchis I think it was uchis see oh yeah this one was crazy talk about vocal inflection times 10 I was like is this the is this the female version of Kendrick doja cat was going crazy with the vocal tone tonality and the switchups on the fly like she was really she was rapping rapping I mean she said I don't want to instigate y'all really phone it in with the music lately.

I don't need another hit because it's useless really. I ain't looking good. You are you hallucinating. Like this is referring to things that's happened in a past with people calling out about like changing her look up. People talking about how the music ain't hidden, even though she had Painted Town Red is one of the most, one of the best performing tracks of 2020. I mean, she's addressing stuff, but also keeping in general, which is why I think top rapping is always easy to spot. because you know specifically what they're talking about, but they're not saying that specifically,

if that makes sense. It's very much subliminal rap, which is why Jay-Z is one of my favorite rappers of all time. So anyways, let's keep going. So every time I hear him talk, I assume they're crazy, you could open up for me, who are you, first lady? Shut it down mid-show, tell him forget you, pay me.

That's a new Mercedes, I'm graduating. And I mean, you can keep going. I mean, there's so many performances on this album. and to the point where she even has a freestyle at the end of this, she was like, you know, I still got some, I got some more bars to get off my chest. And forget that, forget her album. Let me see.

What was this called? What was it called? What was it, Kill Bill? Kill Bill remix. You already know I'm going with this for my other sister fans out there. I mean, Doja hopped on this track and went crazy. She said, uh, she said a whole scenario with her ex-boyfriend and his girlfriend at the time and how she came in and basically she was rapping and she said so i tried to be discreet and told her

calm your expeditive you know peachy podcast she grabbed the kitchen knife so i pulled out the blick i ain't got it all the time thank god i did for this imagine doja cast saying thank god ironic right anyway so let's keep going because she's seeing red and all i saw was you it happened in a flash when she charged me y'all crisscross saw her fall to the floor then you pause there in horror, that shot wasn't for her. Poetry at his finest, man. So that's why Doja Cat's on my top three list, because, well, top five list at number three,

because she was just leaps and bounds, rapping. I'm not going to say circles, because I really don't want to disrespect my goat. Like, Drake, you make great songs, but as far as rapping, there's just certain people that did it better this year. That's it. Just this year.

Totality-wise, you know, and totality-wise, I feel like you're still that dude. But this year, Dogecad really went up to you on the on the on the on the on rapping rapping. Rapping literally Kendrick ask those your cat was rapping Kendrick ask on this project. So anyways, replayability obviously for me wasn't as high simply because of the subject matter

Doja cat talks about you know a lot of things with you know guys. It's hard to say you know verbatim you know what they be saying in songs you know without coming across unless you are that way. And that's okay, you know what I'm saying? To each his own, different strokes for different folks. Anyways. Number two, NF, dark horse of the hip-hop industry puts up numbers, never shows his face. I don't know why he does that.

But, hey, if he doesn't want to do black media, then I guess he can do that because he's white, right? So anyways, hope is the reason why I put him on this list. NF as a rapper puts up performances lyrically that's second to none I would say if I was a rapper myself I would try to be a mixture of NF and Drake

simply for the fact that NF does not curse in his music and lyrically he is just superior to a lot of people and you know of course song making Drake that's where he comes in so anyways I mean where can you not go with this

album to talk about his lyrics like everything on his album is is filled with triple quadruple entendres like he's really putting things in a perspective he's putting words together in a way that could mean one thing or could be another could mean both could mean something totally different and it all makes sense so uh let's just go with careful the only feature i think he had oh no he also had julia micha so let's go with the only feature The only rap feature he had is see how he showed up, right? Because Corday is not a slouch himself.

So if you invite him on the track, which I think he wanted Jay Cole on his track. I mean, he literally says sit on my roof like Jay Cole. I'm pretty sure he probably tried to reach out for Jay Cole and shame on Jay Cole if he did reach out and he didn't give him a verse. Imagine NF and Jermaine, I'm not even a Jermaine fan and that would have went crazy. But I think he settled, you know,

no disrespect to Corday, but I think he just went lower down in that. same lane and kind of pick corday um which i don't think corday would take that as disrespect i don't think he's i don't think he thinks he's at the same level as j-co but maybe he does i don't know um nf basically actually corday is technically nah let me chill definitely not in the same level uh nf basically you know i'm not going to say he slaughtered corday corday put up a nice little fight but at the the day. NF said, call up my dad. I told him I got you.

You want to retire. Then do it. You're good. Called up my grandmother, told it it's time to move out of that basement. Let's get you a crib. Called up, my manager told him, get ready. It's about to get busy. This record is called up to God and asked him, you're watching my back. He ain't say nothing back, but I heard what he

said. When you see how I'm living, the answer is obvious. When you go from poverty, stricken and stressing about buying the groceries to not even having to look at the total, you know you've been blessed. That's Big Sean-esque right there. I mean, obviously, Big Sean, you know, I don't know what he's doing.

So we're just talking about NF right now. So that is personal reflection and a higher power rapping at its finest. I mean, talk about having your priorities in check and putting it into rap. I mean, that's like counterproductive to the whole movement of the holy, trinity of topics, right? You're not supposed to be rapping like this. You're not supposed to be positive like this and make it sound good. That's why NF is not number two for me. And deservedly so, because I don't really think there's anybody messing with him when it comes to rap except for my number one. And come on now. At this point, you sure already know who it is.

I mean, does she really need an introduction? She's on my top rapper list of all time for a reason. like onika tanya marage really showed out this year and boy did she come with basically a buzzer beater i'm not going to say she came with a three down two but she came late into the game it's like when somebody show up late in the aAU game show up in the second half and drop like 30 that's basically what nicky did she showed up in the fourth quarter december and dropped a whole 30 piece no a whole 50 piece in a biscuit to shout out Janice when he won the finals. Like, Nikki,

when it came to rapping, was putting up songmaking and superior lyricism in one album, which is why I believe that this album is a total classic, like Pink Friday, too. It's just something that nobody really has came close to replicating this year.

And the biggest thing with Nikki and her rapping is sometimes she has that Detroit-esque flow where she would say something and then she would No really big shine I keep bringing up Big Shine

I wish she would put out music consistently right anyways Nikki Minaj has a Big Sean esque type flow when she would say something and then she would emphasize

the last word but she'd be like oh it's raining and no I forget my wrist is flooded and she'd be like drowning you know what I mean

it would just be like the last word would be like super emphasized to the point to the point of it was like are you okay like you ain't supposed to be rapping like that like it's not the 50s it's not my fault not the 80s no more you know so anyways

she moderned her flow a little bit uh modernized her flow a little bit and you can really tell that with a beep beep of course she gets off on that one i mean she gets on every track every track on this album she gets off but if we really want to go to the best lyrically um enhanced track I don't think she could because she has some he has some performances Oh, you have to go to everybody. Yeah. I mean, come on now.

She said, I mean, you know, it's a little ignorant, but also she rapping. She said all these PG podcasts. So we're just going to say expeditive. All the expeditives on my body. Spend another bag on my body. You ain't mess with a new body. Every whip. Heavy on a new body.

She's not a bad because she ain't nobody. Pretty face with a Barbie doll body. Another year, another Vince Lump. Like, and then if you don't know, she kind of pulled a gunner, which I'm not mad at, you know, I'm not saying Gunner started the whole, oh, use a sample from somebody random and, and them saying the word as, um, the F you mean song was number one for a reason. So everybody in the world started to copy. And I mean, I think Tiger came out with a brand new, uh, basically a complete rip off of F you mean because it came out so soon and so close to, uh, when F you mean was like, doing numbers on the charts to where it's like, bro, Tiger, you know we see you copying him, right? But I guess, you know, artists think we oblivious or whatever. But anyways, the whole having somebody say something over and over,

I mean, obviously Gunna didn't start that, but it's a reason why F you mean was number one. And I think that's a big reason. Like, I think people quote the girl saying, I forget what the word is, but the little sound effects you're making throughout F you mean, I think people quote that way more than they quote the actual song. I mean, when they say,

QP, QPC, whatever, when they'd be like QP, QPC, and everybody's like, yelling or whatever. I think everybody just loves that part. But Tiger did it with the brand new, horribly. It was just horrible track.

Somebody else did it. Oh, Cuevo did it. Cuevo did it with the Bama track, which, you know, technically, take off ad lib is mama. So it's not like they completely ripped off Gunna by just having somebody say ad lib throughout the entire track

but it's like, y'all know what's number one in hip hop for a reason because if you don't know F you mean was the most played hip hop song of 2023. So people was like, well, let's just try to, you know, make that type of song and everybody failed except for, ironically,

everybody, the track by Nick Minaj and Lil Uzi. And the way that she was rapping, why I kept saying body, I mean, it's just peak Nikki. Because I'm not going to say Uzi had trouble keeping up with the sample, but, you know, at sometimes it felt like the sample was too fast for him.

But anyways, Nikki said, you know, I ain't trying to be buddy, body. I'm a multi-million dollar home body. Hollow Point is going to go through your body, washing them expedives, bath and body. He'd be kissing all over my body. And then, you know, after that part, you know, guys, you know, have a little trouble mean that

but anyways she ended it off saying another year another Vince Lam body so anyways that's probably not the best track to talk about her lyrics let me see

she has another one that was more of the that was more of the mixture I was trying I was getting that with the whole lyricism combined with actual quality

but if we talk about lyrics how we got to go to beep this one's insane this track is so short probably not that one probably the first one first one is so introspective that's probably by the best one to go to you never got to meet papa he's sweet proper keep he keep mama on my toes i need to help you book the flight and then you know it's just real introspective stuff i'm i'm reading off the

are you gone already which is the intro to peak friday too so um what else you had my life, which personally, if we're talking about favorite tracks, and if it wasn't my second favorite track, it would probably have to be this one. Let's see. I think my favorite line off this track is if the queen sleeves put a bag on it, then there's gun smoke.

I don't know why. I think that's so far. And then verse two. Let's see. She was talking about somebody. She says, stay in your toy lanes. I'm not icky. I don't know what is that.

I think it's FTCU. Oh yeah, here it is. Stay in your toy lanes, exspetive, I'm not Iggy. Now, if you don't know, apparently Megan LaSalleon's been biting Iggy Exelia for some time now, for quite some time. And I know, right?

Why buy Iggy Exelia? But, hey, that's what Megas is doing. And there's been, like, document, not documentaries, just videos, think pieces, if you will, made on making the stallion copying people. But technically, a lot of artists copy. I mean, a word of,

advice if you're not copying something obviously not verbatim but if you're not copying something it's probably not great like everybody's copying something i mean if you're doing something you totally unique then i guess kudos to you but i'm not going to lie like anything you do in life you're probably copying somebody you probably seen it and even if you didn't see it somebody probably did it before you and um you probably just ended up getting it subconsciously or reiterating that same sentiment that you saw in a movie, TV show. Like, I don't think any thought is 100% original. That's basically what I'm trying to get at.

So anyways, yeah, Nikki don't like Megan. I mean, what's new? So anyways, but it's just bars like that. She really had bars throughout this whole album, lyricism, which is at 10. Really, the thing that got me was the way that she mixed in wordplay with replayability because the thing about Nikki is sometimes it'd be hard to listen to her music because it feels like a chore to get through a lyrics.

But now it feels like more of a dessert than that actual like, I don't know, protein shake is the right word. But basically something that's enjoyable to indulge in rather than something you feel like you have to. So like the M&M effect. Like sometimes Eminem hits that sweet spot with the old big song matched with the master class of lyricism. for for nicky i think she finally did that but with the entire body of work which is why she had to come at number one for my top five rappers of 2023 and with that being said that's my list for my top five rappers of 23 obviously i don't think i have a playlist for that but anyways so to go back over it of course number five we have quavius which you know kind of shows you

that rapping and hip-hop people don't do that no more not to disrespect quavo because you know he definitely put his heart and soul into that take-off tribute out that I think was one of the best albums of the year. But I will say that him ending up at my top five, a little discouraging, but whatever. Number four, also pretty discouraging, because Drake ended up at number four. And music is objectives, I guess I could have acted like they had a better performance than they actually did. But looking at them compared to the field, Drake just had to be at number four. I just don't think he was rapping nearly as good as any of the people above him on this list.

And speaking of those people, number three, I had Doja Cat. Of course, number two, I had NF, and then number one, I had Onika, Tanya, Marage, aka the queen. So, she lived up to her name once more. Once again, the Barb showed out, Nikki showed out, the album showed out, everything showed out. Top five rappers of 2023 lists for me personally, keep that in mind. So with that being said, click my link tree in my bio, let me know one of my social medias. What do you think of my top five rappers list? you think I should have left out, who you think I should put in, and who was your favorite rapper of 2023.