This opinion got more popular with age: While 50% of respondents who fell in GenerationZ (ages 18-23) agreed, 71% of the Lost Generation (ages 67-82) felt the same way.
Jay-Z once jokingly told MTV that "I've inspired a generation of bad writers, " but listeners can only speculate as to how it may have affected the good ones.
"I think that if Lil Wayne is the best rapper alive, that's a slap in the face to not only Jay-Z and Nas rappers we've seen in our own generation but Rakim, Kool G Rap, Ice Cube, so many of the torch carriers who have passed us throughout the era, " Paine says.