Of the WHOLE 21st century? I doubt it. In fact I pretty much guarantee that he will not be the ARTIST of the 21st century. There's a remote possibility that hew will be the Hip Hop artist of the 21st century, but I think Hip Hop as a long way to go yet in it's development and maturation as an artform, and there's more great things to come from other artists yet to be born. That suggests art has prettty much peaked for the rest of the century and there's nothing to look forward to so you might as well give up.
Ridiculous to pronounce someone the greates of anything in the future tense. Past tense sure, at least there's something to talk about, but to automatically dismiss artists who don't even exist yet and for the next 90 years isn't even remotely credible. It's a bit like how the US patent office was going to shut down late in the 19th century because they figured everything worth inventing had already been invented. We know how that attempt at prescience turned out.
Nice try though.
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