I ain't gon lie alot of Wayne's shyt aged horribly

[Justin Nitsuj]

The way he rap now wasn't how he was rapping then. He tapped into some wordplay that he just didn't have early in his career. Being around drake.

Serious question, how old are you? You can’t be up in your 30s thinking this dumb shyt

 

[2ATMsYouSteppinOrWhat]

Plus The Gangsta Grillz
I was Team Luda()but TI had that Locked


And if one wasnt there during The HB$ Era

i still think that T.I. Stomp verse was better than Luda verse

 

[Mʀ2ᴋDᴇᴇᴢ]

as someone who has wayne in my top 5-10 all time, its type crazy that he only has 1 album that i revisit (carter 2). obviously he has the GOAT mixtape catalog going for him (2004-2011), but that alone shouldnt carry your career. it wasnt until all the superbowl shyt that i sat and thought of a wayne setlist, and that shyt would be mediocre as fukk because all his best shyt is on mixtapes, which wouldnt fly in a superbowl setting.

All of this.

 

[Justin Nitsuj]

And OP isn’t from the South if he actually thinks Wayne doesn’t have any real substance in his music.

 

[BigTyme Records]

Thug
Future
Trav
Uzi
Carti
Juice


All birthed off one freestyle ,All multi platnium superstar rappers. And there is so much more I can name.

His influence is undeniable ……..whether that’s a good thing or not is up to you. (It’s not a good thing to me lol)

 

[SpacelySprockets]

Wayne from 05-07 is like a top 5 prime ever but he gets vastly overrated after that, his voice/flow became more annoying and he essentially coasted off of the hype he was able to gain for himself during that run leading up to Carter 3 which did monster numbers despite being worse than Carter 2. Then Drake/Nicki kept him afloat throughout the 2010s. Realistically he fell off musically during his popularity peak and he never grew artistically outside of punchlines.

 

[Ku$h Parker]

i still think that T.I. Stomp verse was better than Luda verse

Shiet I hated it wasnt on the Retail as opposed to Game's VerseThe Collab on Paper Trail

 

[DaSk8D00D]

Peak wayne was an A-Tier rapper at best

he wasnt even a better rapper than TI

I’m not mad at TI over Wayne as he was also S-Tier in his peak


I’d argue he could’ve been the bigger star (acting, business acumen, marketability, etc) had he not sent himself to prison multiple times

 

[2ATMsYouSteppinOrWhat]

I’m not mad at TI over Wayne as he was also S-Tier in his peak


I’d argue he could’ve been the bigger star (acting, business acumen, marketability, etc) had he not sent himself to prison multiple times

numbers wise he was bigger than wayne

 

[2ATMsYouSteppinOrWhat]

Shiet I hated it wasnt on the Retail as opposed to Game's VerseThe Collab on Paper Trail

yeah chuck verse feels outta place

theyre collab was fire too

 

[Mowgli]

Serious question, how old are you? You can’t be up in your 30s thinking this dumb shyt

Pre Drake


Post drake


Go have a seat

 

[Tommy Gibbs]

I knew this shyt in real time listening to his music. No substance at all to anything he ever put out. Definition of getting on a track, getting high and just saying whatever comes to your mind. A lot of his fanbase was in denial about this.

The smoke is clearing. Some saw through it in real time.

see my post from Friday.. I didn't understand the shyt then or now.

this song is an example of Lil Wayne being this top notch lyricist? lol It's obviously we're probably 10-15 years separated in age because this shyt is not top tier lyricism. I remember when Wayne first started to get put over around 2008 with the Carter III and all of the teens and people in their early20s thought this man was God. I didn't get it then and I don't get it now. Yeah his beats were dope, but so were Group Home's, and we knew they were trash. Truthfully, some of these celebrities I've had conversations with about Wayne would say the same thing back then when I was on tour, now these SAME artists are acting like he's god. I don't want to put any names out cuz I don't know who's reading this shyt and will run to social media with it, but I remember having these conversations with groups of people and we were all like "what the fukk is up with this Lil Wayne shyt?" cuz dude was always considered hot garbage with Cash Money, then all of a sudden he went from that to this "best rapper" over night and I was dumbfounded.

For the record, we also knew guys like DMX weren't top tier lyricists either, we just liked his music and I think Lil Wanye makes dope music as well, but these "I'm a martian give me my space" punchlines just weren't that hot back then or even now. Personally, I think lyricistm today in music is overrated because only other rappers respect it. Fans don't give a fukk about that shyt anymore. But I never understood the Lil wayne hype considering that I've heard him on records before Cash money went national (military friends from Louisiana had those old cash money cds prior to 1998)

 

[FunkDoc1112]

Carter 1 through Dedication 2 is the best stuff. When he was trying to have more of an NY steez and hungry to be taken seriously. Once he started doing the whole "I'm a martian" silly shyt and really believing his own hype, I checked out.

 

[Chip Skylark]

Funny how it took the Super Bowl fiasco for people to realize this

A lot of us have been saying this for years on here

 

[CodeBlaMeVi]

He was never one of my faves.