The Official Lil Wayne aka "Weezy" aka "Greatest Rapper Alive" Thread

[quote name='-Never4ever-']Too late, Soulja Boy killed it a while ago.

Rap as a Genre is a complete joke.[/quote]

mainstream rap maybe
 
[quote name='JJSP']
Constant hits? No one gave a shit about him until "Lollipop", and that song sucked dick. I'll be impressed when he wins an award that means anything. A Source award doesn't mean shit.
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He won four grammys, so, he is the best. You're just bitter you can't have fame, money, and ladies like him. :roll:
 
He's a sell out and the only reason he won those grammy's is because he makes mainstream bull shit that they can play in the clubs and on the radio. I think his music is for women. Sure, he's been in the game for a long time but he's still not that good.
 
He was on Around the Horn on ESPN today and was the "winner."

It will air again on ESPN2 in 20 minutes if anyone cares.
 
I thought he was actually pretty good on ATH. He didn't get the same amount of answering questions as the other contestants, anyway.
 
[quote name='tiredfornow']He won four grammys, so, he is the best. You're just bitter you can't have fame, money, and ladies like him. :roll:[/quote]

Another person who understands Weezy is the best
 
[quote name='greyzieoriental']can't believe this guy won a grammy for carter 3
every album he was against was better than carter 3[/quote]

How many grammys has Nas won?
 
[quote name='Poor2More']Another person who understands Weezy is the best[/quote]Word. *fist pump*

[quote name='HovaEscobar']How many grammys has Nas won?[/quote]None, because he sucks.
 
Honestly, Nas is hella boring to listen to. I don't understand how his CD was even nominated for that category.

Personally, I thought Lupe or TI should have won, but Lupe still doesn't have that much exposure as other big name rappers, so I guess it was a toss up between TI and Wayne. I am not bitter or anything, though.
 
[quote name='Malik112099']Did this really need to be resurrected? That shit isn't rock. It isn't even Linkin Park.[/QUOTE]

I agree. It's awful.
 
I haven't listened to all of Rebirth yet, but what I have heard honestly isn't that awful. It's not the best, but it turned out quite a bit better than I expected. Drop the World is a hot track, Eminem just completely kills on it.

The No Ceilings mixtape is pretty good too. I like his D.O.A. better than Jay's, :lol:.

I don't get the Weezy haters. He's no Jay or Nas or Em, but he makes some hella fun songs and he has a decent ear for beats. Not everything you listen to has to be groundbreaking or amazing.
 
To the dickbutt that resurrected this POS thread:

I hope you get raped by animals.

Lil Wayne is a huge $$$$$$ who kisses Baby on the lips.
 
The real Weezy is on The Jeffersons.

"It isn't even Linkin Park" is a pretty apt description. Terrible.


That said, I briefly enjoyed the Hot Boyz stuff way back when since it sounded like a bunch of little ignorant teenagers running around with too much money. There's a concept for some well done, bang-up material.

Yeah. Sounded like.
 
This is not the actions of the "greatest rapper alive"


lilwayne-baby.jpg
 
Knockout is a hot track, but that's roughly it.....shit got delayed too long.....No Ceilings was his highlight.

It really doesn't matter though, since YM has firmly established themselves as the leaders of rap and have cornered the market.

Reports also indicate, with Weezy goin' to jail, they're doing all they can to put Drake's album "Thank Me Later" into The Carter III status.
 
why has this been resurrected. Not a fan of weezy because i cant understand a word he is saying.

i do think this is funny because i think Affion Crockett is funny as shit.
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XXWIncZHPXQ[/media]
 
Why would you listen to this when there is many many torrents filled with J-Pop, J-Rock, or J-core, or J-Rap?

I mean, even a stupid shut in otaku such as myself would know that. There is no lil wayne under my moobs.
 
If the thread title wasn't enough how can this line:

[quote name='Poor2More']It had to be done, this intellectual, talented, modern day poet finally gets an official thread here on CAG.

[/QUOTE]

Not alert you to the fact that this is a troll post.
Good joke OP!
 
Jesus. Why all the hate? It's not like he stole your girlfriend or ratted you out to the cops.

Dude works hard and raps his ass off. I'm not sure what is so bad about that.
 
LOL at people who think Lil Wayne is actually a talented rapper. Is this one of those internet memes I have been hearing about? Has hip-hop degraded to the point where shit by Wayne and other no-talent hacks on the radio these days is considered good? I want my early 90's hip-hop back, you know, when it was still good. The only rapper I even follow now is Em, with the Blueprint 3 turning out to be a steaming pile of shit. I had almost even given up on him after Encore, until someone forced me to listen to Relapse. Seriously, listen to Relapse. Then try to go back and listen to Lil' Wayne. No comparison. Lil Wayne is in the same echelon as Soulja Boy, contributing to the death of hip-hop. Anyone who thinks he is the greatest...anything, is a fool.
 
What a coincidence that this thread was resurrected:

http://us.cnn.com/2010/SHOWBIZ/Music/02/09/lil.wayne.sentencing.postponed/index.html

New York (CNN) -- A Manhattan judge granted a request Tuesday by the rapper known as Lil Wayne to adjourn his jail sentence so some dental work can be done.

Dwayne Carter, as he is known legally, was scheduled Tuesday to be sentenced to a year in prison on gun charges by Supreme Court Judge Charles Solomon.
In the surprise request, Wayne's attorney, Stacey Richman, asked the judge to push back the Grammy award winner's sentencing so he could take care of a dental-related issue, and travel to Florida to do so.
 
This clown along with Soulja Boy and many others in today's rap game is why I pretty much strictly listen to the stuff from the 90's. Almost all of the stuff you hear playing on radio nowadays is garbage.
 
[quote name='-GoodFella-']This clown along with Soulja Boy and many others in today's rap game is why I pretty much strictly listen to the stuff from the 90's. Almost all of the stuff you hear playing on radio nowadays is garbage.[/QUOTE]

Sounds more like you're in denial and stuck in an era. It happens to alot of people when they get old.

By the way, the modern music industry goes beyond the radio.
 
The whole "hip hop is dead" shit gets on my nerves. As soon as Nas said "hip hop is dead", it became cool to hate anything and everything hip hop and instantly reply with "hip hop is dead" anytime a song is played or mentioned.

Music changes, get over it. Rock is no longer hair bands and face paint, but nobody is running around talking about how Rock is dead. Just because theres more club and party oriented hip hop songs instead of hardcore gangster rap does not mean hip hop is dead. Just because all hip hop isn't insanely indepth now does not mean hip hop is dead.

If people want to hear upbeat club bangers over indepth serious shit, then that is what artists are going to make. If people didn't like the music that's out right now, the artists wouldn't be selling shit-tons of records, they would change their style to what people want, or else they would be broke. The majority of the people want to hear the type of stuff that's out right now and that's what's going to be made.

The "hip hop is dead" people are just as annoying as the people who can't like a movie, song, band, or anything that has more than 5 fans. "This band only has 5 fans, they're so awesome. Oh wait they have 6 fans now? SELL OUTS!! They were better back when they only had 5 fans, now their shit sucks even though its the same songs."
 
[quote name='BigPopov']Sounds more like you're in denial and stuck in an era. It happens to alot of people when they get old.

By the way, the modern music industry goes beyond the radio.[/QUOTE]

If denial means enjoying one of the best periods of a music genre then so be it. I liked it when emcees had creative verses, a message, something meaningful to say. Try to find that in today's game and you'll be very disappointed.

Whether it be radio, tv, or the internet you always hear the same acts getting airtime, usually the same sorry rappers I keep hearing about and have avoided for the past 4-5 years.

But hey...if you like what you listen to the "hot" shit that they play nowadays then knock yourself out.
 
[quote name='masked lemon']He wasn't even the greatest rapper in his group...[/QUOTE]

At the the time, I thought Juvie (or even B.G.) would be the most successful by now.

I love rap from the 90's but I wouldn't go so far as to say that all rap right now sucks. I'd agree that all hip hop radio right now is horrible but, like Big Popov said, there are more options than the radio for finding hip hop. Go see a local show and prepare to be amazed all over again.
 
[quote name='-GoodFella-']If denial means enjoying one of the best periods of a music genre then so be it. I liked it when emcees had creative verses, a message, something meaningful to say. Try to find that in today's game and you'll be very disappointed.

Whether it be radio, tv, or the internet you always hear the same acts getting airtime, usually the same sorry rappers I keep hearing about and have avoided for the past 4-5 years.

But hey...if you like what you listen to the "hot" shit that they play nowadays then knock yourself out.[/QUOTE]

I agree 100% with this. I can't listen to hip-hop/rap on the radio anymore (haven't for about 10 years). It all uses the same snap-clap, bubblegum-pop formula with synthesized vocals. The lyrical content doesn't go much beyond how much money they make, the size of the rims on their $300,000.00 cars and how many chicks they get.

Lil Wayne is not hip-hop or rap: he's pop. At one point he may have been a true rapper/hip-hop artist, but he's lost sight of what hip-hop and rap is really about (Afro-American culture, smooth-flowing rhymes, the ups and downs of life). The Roots, ATCQ, Mos Def and Talib Kweli,Del(tron)(Tha Funkee Homosapien) and Hieroglyphics, Pete Rock, Lauryn Hill, Pharcyde, Common, De La Soul, 2pac, Biggie, Wu-Tang, Method and Red, ODB, Nas, AZ, Kurupt, Mobb Deep, NWA, Eric B. and Rakim, are all genuine, pure hip-hop artists.
 
Just because you guys don't like what the radio is playing doesn't mean there aren't good songs being made that don't get radio play.
 
[quote name='DestroVega']^ disagree about Wayne not being hip-hop... does he have "pop" songs, yes... but so did Biggie.[/QUOTE]

I agree with that. Every artist needs to have 1 or 2 "pop" singles that can be played on the radio just so that they have name recognition among the masses. But I don't see Wayne doing any legitimate hardcore rapping as Biggie had over the stretch of his short career.

There is no doubt in my mind that Wayne has the potential to be a legitimate rapper. If he would drop the bubblegum-pop background beats, synthesized vocals and focus more on spitting rhymes than over-exaggerating his "greatest rapper of all time" image, he could be good. I would love to see what he could do creatively if he would step away from the major record labels and produce something independently. Would it sell as many copies? Probably not. But it would be a breath of fresh air to hip-hop purists such as myself (and, it appears, many others who have posted on this thread) who look for more than just a party jam in their hip-hop music.
 
[quote name='help1']Just because you guys don't like what the radio is playing doesn't mean there aren't good songs being made that don't get radio play.[/QUOTE]

Trust me, I know that. I've recently been listening to Mos Def's The Ecstatic and Q-Tip's The Renaissance. Both are quality hip-hop albums that I would never expect to hear on the radio.
 
[quote name='EDiddy0042']I agree with that. Every artist needs to have 1 or 2 "pop" singles that can be played on the radio just so that they have name recognition among the masses. But I don't see Wayne doing any legitimate hardcore rapping as Biggie had over the stretch of his short career.

There is no doubt in my mind that Wayne has the potential to be a legitimate rapper. If he would drop the bubblegum-pop background beats, synthesized vocals and focus more on spitting rhymes than over-exaggerating his "greatest rapper of all time" image, he could be good. I would love to see what he could do creatively if he would step away from the major record labels and produce something independently. Would it sell as many copies? Probably not. But it would be a breath of fresh air to hip-hop purists such as myself (and, it appears, many others who have posted on this thread) who look for more than just a party jam in their hip-hop music.[/QUOTE]

Have you heard any of his mixtapes? pretty much hardcore rap. Isn't "A Milli" straight forward rap??

He does have an influx of "pop" songs because they tried to sell his last album so you got stuff like "Lolipop" but I mean, every CD really has something like that for airplay.

He went through the autotune/trying out rock phase... it's probably over. At least the guy tried something different.

I could hammer so many more rappers first than Wayne... he is pretty legit in my book.
 
[quote name='EDiddy0042']I agree with that. Every artist needs to have 1 or 2 "pop" singles that can be played on the radio just so that they have name recognition among the masses. But I don't see Wayne doing any legitimate hardcore rapping as Biggie had over the stretch of his short career.

There is no doubt in my mind that Wayne has the potential to be a legitimate rapper. If he would drop the bubblegum-pop background beats, synthesized vocals and focus more on spitting rhymes than over-exaggerating his "greatest rapper of all time" image, he could be good. I would love to see what he could do creatively if he would step away from the major record labels and produce something independently. Would it sell as many copies? Probably not. But it would be a breath of fresh air to hip-hop purists such as myself (and, it appears, many others who have posted on this thread) who look for more than just a party jam in their hip-hop music.[/QUOTE]

Have you not heard any of his Mixtapes? such as recently "No Ceilings" he kills it on that mixtape, shows why he da best
 
he da best

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Lyricist who will never Lounge till all wack shit is silenced
 
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[quote name='Cracka']The whole "hip hop is dead" shit gets on my nerves. As soon as Nas said "hip hop is dead", it became cool to hate anything and everything hip hop and instantly reply with "hip hop is dead" anytime a song is played or mentioned.

Music changes, get over it. Rock is no longer hair bands and face paint, but nobody is running around talking about how Rock is dead."[/QUOTE]

This was happening during the 90s. Marilyn Manson was one of the couple who declared "rock dead." It's just a lazy person's way of saying nothing new is coming out lately. I'm not a huge fan of Wayne, but I respect him for the fact that he:

A) Raps without a pen ala Jay
B) Understands the way a flow is supposed to work in a song, even if he is rhyming "tranformer" with "transform ya"
C) He is making music because he loves to do it, even if he is stoned, or wasted on some prescription drug while doing it
D) He is doing this and making #1 pop songs while being wasted on drugs, that itself is an accomplishment
 
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