Lil Wayne's "Hot Topic"-core now
― Neanderthal, Tuesday, 8 April 2014 04:24 (ten years ago) link
the part of 3peat when he keeps saying "i'm me" as if he has to convince himself of the fact is very moving to me.
― très hip (Treeship), Tuesday, April 8, 2014 12:22 AM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
don't rule out Wayne forgetting how he started the sentence
"I'm Me" (the song, the phrase) really is the Wayne mission statement though is it not
― nova, Tuesday, 8 April 2014 04:25 (ten years ago) link
oh yeah
― très hip (Treeship), Tuesday, 8 April 2014 04:27 (ten years ago) link
the existential urgency of separating yourself from the herd is more pronounced in wayne than other rappers, especially when he is claiming to be an alien or a monster or something. what's great about the "i'm me" song is that there is all this angry, heartfelt stuff about how far he had to come to be where he is now -- "I'm from the mud / i am a missile like a scud" -- and then he seamlessly segues into that totally disgusting joke about adult undergarments.
― très hip (Treeship), Tuesday, 8 April 2014 04:32 (ten years ago) link
the carter IV might be wayne's "soft parade"
― smang a goon (get it on) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, January 27, 2011 3:07 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
lol who knows wtf i'm talking abt half the time
― Raptain Chillips (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 8 April 2014 13:56 (ten years ago) link
Due to Jim Morrison's increasing alcoholism and interest in poetry, guitarist Robby Krieger has a stronger presence on The Soft Parade than on any other Doors album from the Morrison era,
Seems similar to what went on with Tha Carter IV, subbing alcohol for promethazine
― très hip (Treeship), Tuesday, 8 April 2014 14:29 (ten years ago) link
yeah Krieger's verse on "6 Foot 7 Foot" was dope
― some dude, Tuesday, 8 April 2014 14:41 (ten years ago) link
"Pop that pussy for a real niggaPull out my black card, that's my lil' niggaMake a movie with your bitch, Steven Spiel niggaSmoking on Keysh, Cole, gimme me chills nigga"
jesus god
― getting strange ass all around the globe (Neanderthal), Thursday, 10 April 2014 00:28 (ten years ago) link
lol yeah that's in the category of supremely lazy "I'm on One"/"No New Friends"/that one Jeremih song verses, I don't know how dude can think that "laid-back" style comes off well
I like the "what's your real name" bit though
― nova, Thursday, 10 April 2014 04:18 (ten years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VmddPo_c2oE#t=193
it's been so long since a wayne song made me this happy that it almost feels weird
― some dude, Friday, 16 May 2014 01:40 (ten years ago) link
huh i'll have to click that
he's gotten to the point where if i see he's a guest verse i won't even listen to the song
― dollar rave club (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 16 May 2014 02:05 (ten years ago) link
he's had some good ones lately, i really like the rick ross single he's on too
― some dude, Friday, 16 May 2014 02:15 (ten years ago) link
wow, shipley endorsement is no joke
― le goon (J0rdan S.), Friday, 16 May 2014 02:16 (ten years ago) link
"thug cry" is really good. i was in miami for a few weeks right after mastermind dropped and radio there had already picked it up. it sounded really good on the radio so i'm glad it's trickling out.
― le goon (J0rdan S.), Friday, 16 May 2014 02:17 (ten years ago) link
Think "Bigger Than Life" on the Rich Gang album of all things may be the dividing line between wack/dope recent Wayne
― nova, Sunday, 1 June 2014 05:30 (ten years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mzCm9CXwBTA
thoughts?
― rap steve gadd (D-40), Friday, 27 June 2014 05:23 (ten years ago) link
like it like i liked IANAHB2
― sisilafami, Friday, 27 June 2014 13:10 (ten years ago) link
it's oki like "Believe Me" w/him and Drake
― sinister porpoise (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 27 June 2014 14:11 (ten years ago) link
It's just ok. I like that he's trying, but this one is not up to the level of Believe Me or D'usse.
― voodoo chili, Friday, 27 June 2014 15:44 (ten years ago) link
This beat is crappy
― Evan R, Friday, 27 June 2014 15:47 (ten years ago) link
bad song. i just wrote about old wayne tho: http://noisey.vice.com/blog/lil-waynes-tha-carter-ten-years-later
― some dude, Friday, 27 June 2014 15:48 (ten years ago) link
"believe me" is great this isn't that great but his rapping still sounds pretty good
when he really starts to get in a rhythm like on the third verse here you can hear him sounding belabored but it's better than his "i'm the shit like a dog's butthole" shtick of the last 5 years
― le goon (J0rdan S.), Friday, 27 June 2014 17:08 (ten years ago) link
I really hate "Believe Me," just dreary all-around, bummed too cuz his thought a bunch of his guest verses leading up to it were dope
"D'usse" I'm cool with though, and this one to a lesser degree
i'm maybe the only person who has a soft spot for post-C3/pre-No Ceilings unhinged-autotune Wayne though (relistening to certain songs of the unofficial Hottest Nigga Under the Sun tape recently in particular, which I don't think I heard except in pieces when it initially dropped) and he's clearly not coming back heh
― nova, Sunday, 13 July 2014 19:19 (ten years ago) link
yeah "Believe Me" is so-so by Drake standards and awful by Carter lead single standards, amazed how many people say it's fire. "D'usse" is awesome and i'm so depressed that it's already being treated like the kind of semi-forgotten promo single that gets left off of albums entirely.
― some dude, Sunday, 13 July 2014 20:09 (ten years ago) link
Drake's had a handful of new tracks this year where people've been "omg FIRE, he's spittin' man" and I just don't get it. Dude's literally the first consensus rapper of recent years where I don't mess with his music, I thought NWTS might change that cuz I really dug "Hold On" but nope
― nova, Sunday, 13 July 2014 20:21 (ten years ago) link
found this when looking for an article on Weezy's lyrical 'progression' over the years. I knew he was into terrible shit 'puns'/wordplay but seeing it all in one place points out that he, uh, has a problem!
http://noisey.vice.com/blog/a-comprehensive-guide-to-lil-waynes-poop-references
― Neanderthal, Wednesday, 16 July 2014 23:22 (ten years ago) link
main takeaway from that article is that Miley Cyrus looked better with her old hair
― nova, Thursday, 17 July 2014 04:59 (ten years ago) link
really though Drake's the one who made the song that sounds the most like a toilet ("Make Me Proud")
― nova, Thursday, 17 July 2014 05:02 (ten years ago) link
I cannot stand Wayne or any of his derivative flock. "Young Money". What a creative name…
has anyone else noticed this? i swear they modeled it after him. Whack as fuck
http://img2-1.timeinc.net/people/i/2013/news/130513/lil-wayne-300.jpg
http://cdn.screenrant.com/wp-content/uploads/Teenage-Mutant-Ninja-Turtles-Trailer-Michaelangelo.jpg
http://images.latinpost.com/data/images/full/8747/michelangelo-teenage-mutant-ninja-turtles-2014.png?w=600
― flashback, Thursday, 17 July 2014 19:55 (ten years ago) link
Wayne has a lot of non-Young Money rappers deriving from different aspects of his style over the years, I would not call him himself derivative. although you said "his flock" so ok
― nova, Friday, 18 July 2014 05:30 (ten years ago) link
One main criticism I have of Wayne since Carter IV or so, maybe a little earlier, is that his wordplay's gotten more obtuse? Possibly a better word for it
I mean something like "if snow fell like hoes fell in love I'd be a snowman" off the last Khaled album is super-wtf and even on "D'usse" with "real niggas don't whine, we'll burn down your vineyard" for example it just doesn't have the cleverness of his best stuff
― nova, Sunday, 20 July 2014 05:46 (ten years ago) link
yeah he definitely hit a point where he kept trying at punchlines but his standards for what constituted a punchline dropped precipitously. the fake deep almost-wordplay like "when a wolf cry wolf, you still see that wolf's teeth."
― some dude, Sunday, 20 July 2014 16:58 (ten years ago) link
for a song called "Grindin'" the new Wayne/Drake song is pretty limp.
i'd blame Drake but Wayne mixing the Young Thug inflection (master becomes the student) & Migos flow and coming up with BS is p lame
― nova, Thursday, 21 August 2014 06:44 (ten years ago) link
Really feeling a lot of IANAHB2 lately and I thought it sucked when it dropped bar two songs. It's the least fucks given of any Wayne project ever and I respect that in a sense, plus he goes in on a bunch of tracks
― nova, Sunday, 28 September 2014 22:02 (nine years ago) link
I'm in a definite not taking bullshit zone after a mad stressful week lol so maybe that's why
― nova, Sunday, 28 September 2014 22:03 (nine years ago) link
I love how this has become the default Wayne thread.
― bobby shmorbius (The Reverend), Sunday, 28 September 2014 22:24 (nine years ago) link
lol
I also feel shit like "Romance" is way realer than any Drake-fronting sensitive-to-these-hoes bullshit, vulgarity and all
― nova, Monday, 29 September 2014 08:17 (nine years ago) link
actually Wayne's good at those type of songs in general. "I'm Single," "Throw It in the Bag" remix, probably other shit I'm forgetting
Agreed. I'm Single and Romance are among his best songs.
― longneck, Monday, 29 September 2014 11:30 (nine years ago) link
"Gunwalk" is my stopplayingwithmebadBayAreadrivers song and "Romance" is my super-into this chick who I got one more day with cuz she's moving tomorrow song lol
― nova, Monday, 29 September 2014 13:23 (nine years ago) link
actually you can sub "Beat the Shit" for "Gunwalk" on the first one heh
― nova, Monday, 29 September 2014 13:24 (nine years ago) link
went through some Idon'tgetit BS with this chick I was originally feeling closer and closer to last night, chick out put on "Anaconda" and I was gonna go nuts lol, immediately put on a few songs from this album + other shit
― nova, Tuesday, 30 September 2014 13:55 (nine years ago) link
wtf he did a collabo with 2 Chainz? lord step away for two minutes
― Neanderthal, Friday, 1 July 2016 00:52 (eight years ago) link
What's wrong w 2 Chainz
― Steve Gunn Mann-Dude (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 1 July 2016 00:58 (eight years ago) link
I like Chainz, but can't imagine Wayne can hold his own w/ him at this stage is all
― Neanderthal, Friday, 1 July 2016 01:03 (eight years ago) link
which is to say his dadjoek game is weak now
2 Chainz definitely carries it but it's a fun project, "MFN Right" is the shit
― some dude, Friday, 1 July 2016 02:16 (eight years ago) link
MFN Right kinda came out first on that solo Chainz tape
― Listen to my homeboy Fantano (D-40), Friday, 1 July 2016 12:48 (eight years ago) link
is he still annoying
― Duke Detain (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 25 August 2021 20:59 (three years ago) link