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Lil Wayne saved hip hop... in my own opinion.
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Wayne, best rapper to ever exist.....he literally turned me from a open minded rap listener to solely one rapper...He's obviously doing something right....
99% of these rappers are one-dimensional rappers, who simply have the ability to rap about stories in regards to their lives in a monotonous manner... It was just simply "cool" to listen to Pac and Big back in the day because they were hot at the time....
The thing about Wayne's talent is that this guy's ability to spit sporadic and to constantly have countless ideas spewing out of his mind is what is considered a gift... His ability to divert each bar to a different subject rather than expanding on the previous bar is something that has intrigued me to this day...sure the actual subject matter became stale over the years but from 98-2007...give the nigga some fucking credit...
All these guys claiming "oh listen to jedi mind tricks and immortal technique...blah blah blah".....we don't give a fuck about reality induced rap since we experience it everyday..we have the media and our eyes for that....you don't need to deliver it to us from your perspective we have minds of our own..... Wayne delivers extraordinary rap which is why we keep coming back to it because it's pure entertainment that puts us in whatever mood we please to be in..
Wayne has also proved he has the ability to keep up(but better) with legendary rappers with the story-telling method of rapping...he CAN do it, but he chooses not to because he knows the wise listeners don't necessarily appeal to it....
He is honestly the only rapper I can say....I clicked back into the song because a line was so fuckin' good where I was either shocked or laughing for 5 minutes....
I've been listening to rap since I was 6, from snoop,dmx,biggie,mase,diddy,pac,dre,em,nas,jigga....but nobody has made me enjoy rap as much as him... WAYNE IS HIP HOP! (not so much anymore though lol)Comment
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If Weezy killed hiphop.. That means he was the boss of it aswell.
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"I sold 1.5 Hip Hop is alive..."Comment
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people are always afraid of new things. as much as we all fell in love with a certain period of wayne's career, he just wouldn't be wayne if he kept doing the same old thing! check the rhyming on d4, it's very much in step with what's going on in today's hip hop for better or worse. on most of those tracks he even directly captured the style of specific lines and adapted them to his own... does anyone realize how DIFFICULT THAT IS?!?! i wouldve expected he'd get more love for doing that, rather than just criticism. that means not only did he have to keep the clever lines and punchlines coming, but he had to do them in accordance with an existing template. that aint easy. problem is: his style in 2006-08 fit in so perfectly with what was going on and broke new ground... it was just a perfect storm... he could never live it down. now it all seems to pale in comparison, no matter what he does differently. think about how many fucking ways the man said he's fly, he gets a lot of pussy, he's dangerous and has guns, his hood is a bad place, etc. literally thousands of songs during that peak period of productivity, he's bound to run out of gas eventually! a lot of critics used to compare wayne to a young bob dylan, who put out a shitload of songs every month like wayne at his peak... more than his label could accomodate. this is because he had a lot to say about the world and politics and whatnot. eventually bob dylan, just like weezy, scaled the whole thing down and advanced his sound into some new places while keeping the wordplay relevant, riveting and the commentary cutting edge. dylan was criticized too, but people adjusted. same shit, different era.
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another thought: hip hop right now is where rock music was in the 1980s. been around for a few decades, been pushed forward A LOT about 15-20 years earlier (late 60s for rock and 90s for hip hop). and finally, the inevitable - it begins to fuse with pop. just like all the big 60s/70s rock stars from paul mccartney to the aforementioned bob dylan to neil young to springsteen all began to go poppy and kinda cheesy in the 80s, all the big hip hop names are going poppy in these current times (autotune, overuse of synthesizers, incorporation of elements not previously used in hip hop like pop stars on hooks etc.) i don't know, maybe it's because there's no where else to go and it's the natural direction of things, but there's a definite parallel between these two different genres at those two different eras. ya diiiiiiig?!?! lolComment
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he didnt kill hip hop, but he is helping soulja, 2chainz, wiz, snoop now and many others
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