The evolution of Wayne's voice

[Dukez]

forum feels kinda dead so i just wanted to ask a question.

We all agree that from the Block Is Hot Era to the Pre c4 Era wayne has changed A LOT, sonically speaking.

Block is hot | lights out era
In the early days he used to rap really fast, very young and southern sounding, less swag and more hardcore shit.

Carter 1,2 | Drought 1, 2 | Dedication 1 and 2 | era
He had a much cleaner professional sounding grown up voice, slick wordplay as opposed to just TRAP or hardcore raps and he was creating several different flows. Really started swagging out more around this point.

Drought 3, The Leak, C3
This is wayne, imo, teetering on Greatness. He had this cool killer slurred out voice (Upgrade, Put some Keys) and became much more playful, doing classic weezy laughs as adblibs and so on. MUCH MORE CREATIVE in terms of taking it out of hip hop and experimenting ( I feel like dying) with cool concepts and other genres.

Rebirth | We are YM | No Ceilings | IANAHB
I think No Ceilings was awesome but this is where I saw the decline in wayne. He became TOOO BIG and it was just a lot of the same garbage punchlines and TOO DRUGGED OUT and heavily experimental and no real hunger for being the top dog.

That being said, what do you guys think he's going to come with on c4?

I know were gonna hear a lil of pre jail wayne ( Probably Anne) on it, but APART FROM THAT

will he go back to c2? Will he invent something new? Is the high pitched voice the new thing? Could it be his best yet?



Discuss....

[ymcmb]

Re: The evolution of Wayne's voice

Fucking hate the high-pitched 6'7' voice to be honest. If you listen to him talk in interviews in the past few months it's obvious he's still got the deep raspiness and slur in his voice, so idk why he's either faking this new voice behind the mic or his producers are faking it behind the boards. But it needs to stop imo. His voice in John was way better than 6'7' but I'd do anything for him to go back to sounding like this:

[ProBitaz.]

Re: The evolution of Wayne's voice

The era right before C3 (06 to early 08 ) he was at his best. He had a perfect mix between raspsy voice and rapper voice and a great mix with meaning in his songs and punchlines here and there... Now he got too many punchlines and slack his lyrics a lil. His voice is great. When he aren't using that high pitch.

[Aza]

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i like weezys voice as it is different. Rappers in general have really deep voices and all have the same flow. Wayne keeps changing his game so you never know what you will get. As for his content, well it is always the same tbh but its amazing how he can talk about the same things in so many different ways using so many different metaphors n punchlines...

[soulful]

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I like Wayne's voice on every step. My favourite voice style is from dedication 2 to C3. To be honest, on Rebirth, to me, he was really bad. On "I'm not a human being", his voice is similar to 6'7'. I think he will return to C2 voice but more highly pitched.
I prefer more the Dedication 2 style or Like Father Like Son style. Also on Carter 3 his voice is similar to C2 but a lil' bit "heavier" such as "Dr. Carter", "Mr. Carter".

[ymcmb]

Re: The evolution of Wayne's voice

I like Wayne's voice on every step. My favourite voice style is from dedication 2 to C3. To be honest, on Rebirth, to me, he was really bad. On "I'm not a human being", his voice is similar to 6'7'. I think he will return to C2 voice but more highly pitched.

...but the point of the C2 voice is that it was so deep..

At first I thought getting of cough syrup was why he hasn't had the raspy voice in a while, but if you listen to the interviews (Nardwuar for example) his actual voice hasn't changed at all in five years. So it's gotta be something they're doing in the studio.

[IceMan]

Re: The evolution of Wayne's voice

Pretty good thread imo!

I think they made a mistake with the "high pitched" bs on 6'7', when you listen to his recent interviews (with Nardwuar) he sounds pretty normal & has a deep voice...
"Anne" sounds like classic Wayne and I can't see him making more high pitched tracks tbh
I hope he's sounding pretty "normal" on C4...

but if you listen to the interviews (Nardwuar for example) his actual voice hasn't changed at all in five years. So it's gotta be something they're doing in the studio.

^lol exactly

[lilweezyfan]

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Lil Wayne is better then ever. He's flow goes harder then it ever done,
I am talking about, hustle hard remix, 9 piece remix, John, we be back soon, and so on.
They all go hard, but he's lyrics Sucks sometimes tbh. He's lyrics was best in 2005.
And wait till c4. It will be better then CIII

[Guest]

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...but the point of the C2 voice is that it was so deep..

Not exactly.He had this higher (not that high like on 6F7F) on many song on C2 or that were meant to be on C2.
I remember the time when I realised like in February 06 that Wayne got a high ass voice.
Now I'm sitting here and thinnk that shit was raspy and deep.
But I think he will rap like in 06 again.
Since the beginning of the tour I noticed that he behaves more like the Pre-Rebirth time.
In interviews he seems very tired and shit and on his concerts he freaks out.
On the farewell tour I remember he didn't move a lot.
I know it ain't got much to do with his voice but it shows that he is going to his old style again.(Unbraided dreads too!)

[ymcmb]

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Not exactly.He had this higher (not that high like on 6F7F) on many song on C2 or that were meant to be on C2.
I remember the time when I realised like in February 06 that Wayne got a high ass voice.
Now I'm sitting here and thinnk that shit was raspy and deep.
But I think he will rap like in 06 again.
Since the beginning of the tour I noticed that he behaves more like the Pre-Rebirth time.
In interviews he seems very tired and shit and on his concerts he freaks out.
On the farewell tour I remember he didn't move a lot.
I know it ain't got much to do with his voice but it shows that he is going to his old style again.(Unbraided dreads too!)

Totally agree with all that. His shows and interviews are WORLDS better than right before jail (especially the shows, this tour has been crazy energetic). And I'm sure that if we were in the studio with him in person listening to him record, the songs would sound better too. But someone in the path between his microphone and the internet is doing something with his voice that I wish they would stop doing...

[Guest]

Re: The evolution of Wayne's voice

Totally agree with all that. His shows and interviews are WORLDS better than right before jail (especially the shows, this tour has been crazy energetic). And I'm sure that if we were in the studio with him in person listening to him record, the songs would sound better too. But someone in the path between his microphone and the internet is doing something with his voice that I wish they would stop doing...

Well nobody knows.
But I think Wayne would stop it so I doubt it.

[beto.]

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he should just rap like he did on the dedication 1, fuck this high pitched bull shit man it aint wayne, just doing it to appeal to more ppl