Let's anticipate Lil Wayne, "The Carter III"

but to argue that hes actually explaining what it is about wayne's music that makes it so singular would be what i consider 'insightful' or would qualify as beyond what basically every other rag has done when writing about dude's music

this isn't music criticism about wayne, or music criticism at all. he says up front he was only sort of superficially a fan at the start of the year. sure it's anthropological, or amateur-anthropological, but i think he consciously doesn't overreach in trying to pretend that he knows things he doesn't or grasps things at a level he can't possibly given his position.

mostly he's just saying, here's where i am, here's what i see. you can find his observations banal or obvious i guess, but i think that's always easy to say after you read something like this -- "well, that's what i woulda thought."

also i'm not even a big fan of carter iii, and i agree that the musical observations scattered through the thing are pretty much rote wayne-ology. what i like is the way the music acts in this setting, how it reverberates for the kids and the teacher, and the kind of intangible force it provides as a counterbalance to a lot of more tangible and grimmer things. it is not the greatest thing i've ever read about how music functions in culture, but i think it's a good and honest shot at it, and not many people even really try to write about that.

no im not the type who would teach inner city high school let alone reflect upon the cultural and social differences using rap music as a comparative device shit was lame as fuck. posting on ilm is way more fun

Xposst!

i agree with that post xp

his observations banal or obvious

yeah that part

Oxford American isn't VIBE, and he's not writing about Weezy. He's writing about the city and its inhabitants and how he came to understand them.

― HOOS clique iphones fool get ya steen on (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Saturday, September 13, 2008 10:07 PM (17 minutes ago) Bookmark

tipsy's last post is basically what i really like about the piece. I like how, despite it being very well-written, I don't get the feeling that the writer is trying to narrow down what the music means to his version of it. There's a certain humility to it, and I think that's what underlies the (yes, still pretentious) snapshot/numbering - the idea being that these different parts don't necessarily add up to a whole.

BTW probably a bad strategic move to ride my dick when it comes to hip hop

So I know this isn't news or anything, but I'm way behind on this shit. Not so far behind that I haven't realised that this is brilliant. It just took me a while is all.

Also, I wish every song on the radio right now sounded like Comfortable.

"Shawty say i lo lo lo lo look like a lollipop" - Lil Wayne" - real facebook group!!!

yeah I only heard this album about a month or so ago. it's terrific.

okayyyyy...i stand corrected, apparently "shawty say i lo lo lo lo look like a lollipop" is how it goes on the clean version. i was wondering why i kept changing my mind about how that line went, depending on where i had heard it last.

anyone hear the new empire mixtape?

basically every year end blurb about this is like "yeah it's not perfect - in fact it's really inconsistent, but that makes us love it more! what an awesome look into the crazy drug alien lil wayne! he is so interesting that he can't even make a good front to back album!"

rock critics on some bullshit shocker

the gq profile of him is pretty good tho

i'm not sure i can bear to read another lil wayne profile but link?

it's the only feature from their last issue not online so you're just gonna have to take my word for it

y'know i think i can do that

ww the lies i posted on this thread, typical republican

i swaer to god i might flip out of i hear Miss Officer once. and how was this a 'bonus' track and now it's a single? i'm goin bongos over this

If you hear it once? How do you know that you hate it so much if you haven't heard it yet?

i meant one more time. good lord the early am is not kind to my fingers and brain.

it wasn't a bonus track in the traditional 'this is just a little extra addition to the real album' sense so much as in the 'this album was being tinkered with so much up until the last minute that the back cover tracklisting is missing some songs and we had to reprint it as an insert'

ahh that makes a lot more sense then.

Plus, you know, they're going to be milking as much Weezy stuff as they can for the next year.

i'll be looking forward to his reimagination of the Reading Rainbow theme by year's end...

i will be disappointed if he doesn't do anything with "pants on the ground"

loOOkin like a FOOOOOoooOOOOOl

Plus, you know, they're going to be milking as much Weezy stuff as they can for the next year.

― you gone float up with it (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Sunday, February 28, 2010 1:06 PM (4 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

we're talking about the "Mrs. Officer" that peaked on the charts 18 months ago right?

yeah what the fuck is this revive even about

heard hes making a follow up to 500 degreez thats meant to b good

my friend teaches high school in brooklyn and he told me just the other day that one kid just started reciting and singing word for word "mr. carter" in the middle of class and all the kids laughed a lot

― Surfboard Pre (surfboard dudes get wiped out, totally), Saturday, September 13, 2008 5:14 PM (4 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

great fuckin story kid

― Patrick Leahy, (D)-VT (deej), Saturday, September 13, 2008 6:18 PM (2 years ago) Bookmark

lol

So C3 is still great, eh.

just "a milli", "let the beat build" and "ain't got nuthin"

and "lollipop"

i'll say that it was pretty much the last listenable full thing he ever did

carter 3 sessions really are so much better tho -- production palate on that was way more in line w/ what i think his persona is/should've been then

basically every year end blurb about this is like "yeah it's not perfect - in fact it's really inconsistent, but that makes us love it more! what an awesome look into the crazy drug alien lil wayne! he is so interesting that he can't even make a good front to back album!"

this still rings true to me tho

surfboards pretty much otm

Oh yeah, The Carter 3 Sessions is incredible... "What He Does" "Something You Forgot" "La La La" fucking "WORLD OF FANTASY" (even though it got turned into "Playing With Fire," but "WOF" is still better, imo).

my niece was 4 when she felt chinchallops

― J0rdan S., Saturday, May 31, 2008 7:41 PM (2 years ago) Bookmark

^^lol'd at myself

When a classmate complained about some bullshit policy last semester one of the TAs said "I am just a player in this game you see, so go blame the referee don't complain to me"

XD

― HOOS clique iphones fool get ya steen on (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Saturday, September 13, 2008 6:16 PM bookmarkflaglink