Who is the best lyricist when you read their lyrics instead of listening?
I have a disability that makes speech impossible for me to interpret/hear, this is made significantly worse when listening to music because there are other stimuli such as the instrumental and inflection that make it even harder for me to make out what rappers are saying without genius. This makes it so that my only real way to enjoy hip-hop lyricism is via reading verses on genius and other such websites and dissecting them similar to how people would read books. My question is who do you think is the best lyricist on paper and why? I often see discussions of who people think the best lyricist is when listening, but have yet to see any discussions on how the lyrics read. I'll take one of my personal favorite stanzas from Ka for instance "Too many profits, that's why no war stops My lane, they made it bane with cocaine That's raw rocks, a few banking It's the new blanket with the smallpox Corrupt and complicit, that's all cops That's an exact fact they can't face Thought the whole patrol was vegan, how they plant base" or perhaps another from Daylyt "If I slide, my family slide behind you You fuck with the Tik Tok, I'm on my shit Roc And I'm not sparin' Today everybody dies, no ops sparin' Hard grillin', I'ma deuce a (Medusa) nigga If Roc starin', it's gonna be hard to swallow this"