Originally posted by YoungTunechie
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And there might be some people that agree with me...
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Originally posted by no_tom&jerry
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i'm actually writing an IANAHB2 review presently and i mention this sort of thing. i can post the whole article here when it's done, but for now here's that one part which covers the point i want to make here:
He is too young to hang it up and settle complacently into his most publicly beloved style (if there even is one). Dwayne Carter is only 30 years old and he is more interested in moving the rap genre forward – specifically by fusing it with pop and electronic music like so many of his contemporaries. Lil Wayne is a pop star now, not a nostalgia act. He has been trying to successfully merge the divide between rap and pop since his Lollipop days and with IANAHB2 he is one step closer. Not content to sit back and ride out his career as "2008 Wayne" he still sees himself as a very relevant force in popular music, as he should. He refuses to be a rap dinosaur just yet; a Nas or an Ice Cube who gets wheeled out every few months to tackle a guest appearance or put out a record appealing to an audience of thirty-somethings wanting to safely revisit their rebellious years. For better or worse, "Tunechi" is the future... at least for a few more years. He is still evolving and shaping music. Such an undertaking is always going to be a slippery slope for an artist like Wayne, because he has been so many things to so many people throughout his career, and knowing he will never please everybody, he ends up not caring if he pleases anybody. He once again follows his muse and alienates half of his hardcore fanbase, while doubling its numbers in the process. There's a whole new generation of listeners who don't give a fuck about Da Drought 3 and Tha Carter 2 and how groundbreaking these records were; they like 2013 Trap Weezy with his A.D.D. flow, his rapid-fire one-liners and his XXX-rated lyrics. He's a genuine rock star and his music pisses off parents and makes anyone over 25 cringe... isn't that what a rock star is supposed to do? I remember how the C1- and C2-heads wrote him off after C3 came out, only to come back around and cite C3 as his peak era when C4 was confounding fans worldwide.
He is too young to hang it up and settle complacently into his most publicly beloved style (if there even is one). Dwayne Carter is only 30 years old and he is more interested in moving the rap genre forward – specifically by fusing it with pop and electronic music like so many of his contemporaries. Lil Wayne is a pop star now, not a nostalgia act. He has been trying to successfully merge the divide between rap and pop since his Lollipop days and with IANAHB2 he is one step closer. Not content to sit back and ride out his career as "2008 Wayne" he still sees himself as a very relevant force in popular music, as he should. He refuses to be a rap dinosaur just yet; a Nas or an Ice Cube who gets wheeled out every few months to tackle a guest appearance or put out a record appealing to an audience of thirty-somethings wanting to safely revisit their rebellious years. For better or worse, "Tunechi" is the future... at least for a few more years. He is still evolving and shaping music. Such an undertaking is always going to be a slippery slope for an artist like Wayne, because he has been so many things to so many people throughout his career, and knowing he will never please everybody, he ends up not caring if he pleases anybody. He once again follows his muse and alienates half of his hardcore fanbase, while doubling its numbers in the process. There's a whole new generation of listeners who don't give a fuck about Da Drought 3 and Tha Carter 2 and how groundbreaking these records were; they like 2013 Trap Weezy with his A.D.D. flow, his rapid-fire one-liners and his XXX-rated lyrics. He's a genuine rock star and his music pisses off parents and makes anyone over 25 cringe... isn't that what a rock star is supposed to do? I remember how the C1- and C2-heads wrote him off after C3 came out, only to come back around and cite C3 as his peak era when C4 was confounding fans worldwide.
Damn bro. You said it.
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