He signed both to his Young Money imprint, and placed them on high profile songs Nicki has a spot on Da Drought 3 , and Drake literally got every single hook he could to help boost their statuses. They have produced a combined nine No. He influenced a lot of styles and a lot of sounds. I would say I was influenced by a certain sound and flow and cadence that he brung to the game. Wayne took that idea and advanced it As rap continues on, and Wayne eventually leaves it, his contributions to the genre will become more magnified, rightfully placing him in the annals of hip-hop history.
His presence has waned in recent years a result of Tha Carter V being tied up in controversy with Birdman and Young Money , but he still remains a legendary figure in the industry.
In , when he threatened retirement , artists from Flying Lotus to Missy Elliott to Rick Ross spoke up in encouragement for the troubled rapper. It topped the Billboard Hot for three weeks. Are we missing one of the best Lil Wayne songs? Let us know in the comments section below. Your email address will not be published. Save my name, email, and website in this browser for the next time I comment.
Search uDiscover Music. Related Topics Karen January 22, at pm. Best Rapper Alive???? Eminem is the best rapper alive!! Leave a Reply Cancel reply Your email address will not be published. Continue Reading. As far as mainstream Hip-Hop's concerned, that pretty much nails it on the head. But as I stammered to defend my musical tastes, I added, "The creativity isn't necessarily about what they're saying.
It's how they say it. And that's where Wayne wins. He's better than anybody on earth. When he raps about drugs: "red drank, blue pill, white dust, yes I love my country bitttttttttch!
Weaving together arcane pop culture references with unlikely metaphors, a playful sense of humor, and the swagger that underpins every rap song, ever, Lil Wayne plays into every stereotype that's ever plagued gangster rap, then makes it all original and irresistible. People criticize him for making too much music, releasing all of it to the public, mostly free of charge. So much that it blends together into one meaningless medley of metaphors and banal messages. It makes him taboo to the purists.
Because hip-hop began as a movement, and lyrics are supposed to mean something. Weezy is just proof that true hip-hop is dead, according to critics. But what if he's personifies rebirth? What if the death of hip-hop coincided with its acceptance among the mainstream, and suddenly, it's just another genre. If you can look at it that way, you begin to see why meaning is mostly irrelevant. Nobody worries Nirvana's angsty, anti-social messages. With them, it's all about the music, and how it's different than anything we've heard from anybody else.
Why should hip-hop be different? Instead of a guitar, Wayne's best instrument is his drug-addled, wandering mind and the raspy, blunt-weathered voice that goes with it.
Coherence is beside the point. Who needs meaning when you can rap over a Beatles sample and say, "I'm from the dirt where the Beatles and John Lennon be at, and these niggas lookin' yellow like a penalty flag. If you want to get really abstract with it—as far as hip-hop's rebirth is concerned—you could argue he's the first post-modern rapper we've ever.
And when you consider the backstory behind his rise to the top, that's where the meaning begins to take shape. Lil Wayne was literally raised by hip-hop. He was signed with Cash Money by 12 years-old, and touring at He invented the term Bling, probably the single-most famous piece of hip-hop lexicon to cross over to the mainstream.
And as he grew, he grew detached from all of it. The idea that artists are defined by albums or concerts or Anything, really. After a while, he stopped writing down rhymes, and just started rhyming all the time. He rapped about what he knew. Hip-hop culture, groupies, whatever sports he caught on ESPN, and whatever movies or TV shows caught his eye between recording sessions. Since he was 12 years-old, that's been his life.
But rather than being confined by his perspective, he was freed to do whatever he wants. When you're rapping about nothing, everything's fair game. And it's so much fun. For instance, you can go to listen to Lupe Fiasco rap about war and economic inequality on a Fall Out Boy remix —"I pledge allegiance to gasoline, and bulletproof limousines, and leans on the property of the poor"—but isn't the next verse so much more fun?
Hey, I'm so cool even I wanna be me. That was totally off the subject, but for me every song is like pussy, so fuck it! It's totally frivolous at face value, but when you consider the breadth of what he produces, and the creativity of the presentation, the mystique starts to make sense. In a sea of redundant rappers trying to fit a mold that no longer makes sense, Wayne resonates because he doesn't really care about making sense or conforming to any conventions.
Just like any great artist, and unlike any of the greatest rappers we've ever seen. Or better yet math. Me plus you, baby girl let's add. And we never divide, girl we just subtract, his punk ass I ain't worried 'bout that.
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