Most Lyrical Rap Song

A lot of people believe Eminem is overrated, but they often admit that this is a great song. I personally like his later music as well, but people for some reason tend to go all hipster on it and talk about how stuff before 2005 is so much better, so here you have it, the greatest rap song off all time.

Best Rap song ever. First rap song to win an Oscar award and it also won grammy awards for best solo performance and for best song.

White People Gonna White People. This song is not the most lyrical of all time. It's not even Eminem's most lyrical song. You culture vultures are irrelevant and have the Rap IQ of a damp mop. The clown who cited awards like Grammy's is the prime example of a clueless white biased idiot. Awards/Sales have no place in quality review of hip hp culture, a culture to which you do not and never will belong. - SAMOKiiNG

Overrated

Holdin' an M-16, see with the pen I'm extreme
Now, bullet holes left in my peep holes
I'm suited up with street clothes
Hand me A.9 and I'll defeat foes
Y'all know my steelo
With or without the airplay

Nas is the Greatest Rapper of All Time, I don't know why, but when I listen to Nas, I feel that everyone other rapper is just massively overrated and that the people who think those rappers are the best don't know rap and are just biased...

Eminem isn't even that nice...especially compared to NaS.

I never sleep cause sleep is the cousin of death.

Tells a great story, amazing putting the words so brilliantly together like this - roblist

It's in my opinion the best story to be told in a song and it's the lyrics that paint this picture in your head.

This should be #1! No Doubt. Listen to it an you will certainly agree.

No doubt in my mind this should be #1.

Best song ever... Em is Em... but Nas did it pure... no other song is on par with this

This song is genius,

One mic 11th seriously, it should be second to stan not 11th what are yaw'll smoking

Absolutely The Very Best Haha:-)

This should be the only EM song on this list. Get these white culture vultures a new culture to try belonging to. Rap isn't for them. This is a great lyrical song, Lose Yourself is just a pop-alternative rap rock song that sold a lot of albums & movie tickets, metrics that are meaningless to lyricism. - SAMOKiiNG

A song with great emotion and emphasises on day to day struggles

The story that set it off

Tupac is the best, no boubt, but he could never write a song as lyrical as this. Most lyrical rap song of all time.

As terms of lyrical this song deserves to be much higher, along with Nas and biggie and Em

One of the few rappers to talk about actual problems not just sex drugs...

Any song from Tupac has a real lyrical meaning.

I'm a hardcore critic, but couldn't find any flaw in this song's lyrics. It couldn't have been more P E R F E C T. And I'm not even gonna start with the song itself, the lyrics only woild give almost anyone an undeniable vibe to weep.

Common is a great lyricist! This song was definitely the greatest hip hop song of all time

Listen to the first bar - Iam_rsdxii

Life's a bitch and then ya die, that's why we get high

Great song, Nas is a lyrical genius

Murder is a tough thing to digest
It's a slow process
And I ain't got nothing' but time
I had near brushes, Not to mention
3 Shots close range, Never touch me, devine intervention
Can't stop I
From drinkin Ma-Tai's
With Ta Ta
Down in Nevada
Ha-ha, Poppa, word life
I dabled in crazy weight
Without rap I was crazy straight
Patnah I'm still gettin money from 88

AMAZING! The beat is hardly anything if you listen. But you don't notice cause he engages you with his flawless lyricism

He virtually killed this

How lyrical could he be on MMLP? Man, amazes me to hell and back.

One of the sweetest rap songs ever. And one of his top two best songs in my opinion. Ths song deserves more recognition... LISTEN TO THIS SONG people YOU WONT REGRET IT!

Best and realest song out there! Shows a lot about Kendrick and his skills he has!

No rap expert by any means,a soundtrack to downtown l.a. In the 80,s summed up the mood of the inner cities perfectly,still relevant today.

Summer is too short!

How is this so low? Punchline king hits hard on this.

Can't believe this song isn't in top 10. Come on guys vote and get this song up next to dance with the devil

R.A. 's verse is more lyrical than all of these combined.

This has to be the greatest lyrical submission of all time.

One of the most lyrical songs ever

Best lyrical song ever! Amazing and so lyrical. Nas the best rapper ever.

A great song lyrically, must listen all the way through. Shows how a song's meaning can be changed just by adding one word.