He was reacting amid the ongoing supremacy battle between Nigerian rappers Odumodublvck and Blaqbonez.
Veteran hip-hop star Reminisce has revealed the secret to thriving as a rapper or hip-hop artist.
According to him, wealth and stream numbers don't matter but “pure skill.”
He was reacting amid the ongoing supremacy battle between Nigerian rappers Odumodublvck and Blaqbonez.
Appearing as a guest alongside his colleague, Vector, in a recent episode of On The Record podcast, Reminisce pointed out that the reason American rapper Kendrick Lamar is widely adjudged the winner of his hip-hop battle with Canadian superstar Drake was because of his skills.
He said, “Hip-hop is the only genre that doesn’t respect numbers or money. No matter how much money you make as a rapper, you can’t buy it [the respect of the Hip-hop world]. That’s one thing I love about Hip-hop. You have to earn it. People have to say, ‘Vector is a good rapper, he’s a legend.’
“If you like see 5 trillion streams, if you like name your album the greatest. Nobody cares. Rap respects pure skills. That’s why Kendrick Lamar is widely adjudged the winner of his hip-hop battle with Canadian superstar Drake. If you look at the margin between Drake and Lamar in terms of commercial, it’s very wide. But because it’s about skill set, which is the primary thing in hip-hop, Lamar won.”