Lil Wayne calls Andre 3000's remarks about rapping over 40 "depressing"
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Sometimes you just don’t feel like it or want to share that particular art with other people. I used to paint and sketch daily. I won art competitions as a child and teen. The older I got the less I felt like sharing what I created.
When I got back from Afghanistan all my depression and anxiety would build up and I’d start creating again, just for myself. I’d sketch (pencil or charcoal) some of the more traumatic situations my platoon was in, some of the dead/dying patients I had, and some of the kids we’d meet while patrolling.
As soon as I got it out I’d bury my art in a drawer or tough box. They’re beautiful but I didn’t and still don’t care if anyone sees or appreciates them. I just needed to get some shyt out and move on. Some family and friends want to see them, my girl wants to see them, my daughter will probably want to see them. I don’t care, they’ll just have to find it all before I trash it.
My family still asks me to paint shyt for them but I just have no desire to create like that again. I find peace doing other shyt. Just because I’m good at something doesn’t mean I owe anybody a piece of what I’m good at.
I can wholeheartedly sympathize with Andre Benjamin, the man. He don’t owe anybody shyt. People are taking his choice to find peace in something else personally, like bitter ass bytches. Like he’s going to hear some random forum member’s challenge, look in the mirror and run out on somebody’s stage like 8 mile because they need a musical daddy or some shyt lmao.
As a creative there may very well be plenty of inspiration out there in the world for you. For some of us, we’ve seen enough that it’s just background noise like TV static. A lot of it just doesn’t mean anything to me anymore. I find inspiration in the shyt that makes me feel alive again. I used to question why my dad buried or tossed his work as a profession new photographer and journalist. I know it was his dream, but when it couldn’t feed his family he chucked that shyt because it didn’t mean anything to him anymore. He found peace in raising us.
Neo. The Only. The One.
THE ONE
Tyga got a pod now?
WTF man how many nikkas on this wave
I just found out that Trae Young got a podcast
What's crazy is I watched an episode and I enjoyed it
FruitOfTheVale
Superstar
He only makes music for himself. I would guess that he lives the type of life on his own terms to where he isn't feeling the urge to prove anyone wrong nor make a point to anyone... When you're making rap music for other people it's usually directly in response to their bullshyt or on the other end of the spectrum, trying to win them over. In his current life, neither of those are a priority so the urge isn't there
RaspberryFitted
Boyz In Motion Member
shyt sound like you talkin’ in the fan
zayk35
Superstar
When some ppl get there they just get there. I know for sure shyt that appealed to me at 25 is now mostly "cringe worthy". Even the shyt I liked and that I think is still classic hip hop I just don't wanna hear anymore. I'm also a person who will say that we chose the wrong path in hip hop starting in 88-89. Which is a big reason why rappers generally can't age gracefully in the hip hop genre.
Long Live The Kane
Tyrant Titan
The context about Andre that’s missing from this discussion, is that in all reality he gave up on hip hop over 20 YEARS AGO…his last full length rap contribution was released in the year 2000 (Stankonia)…The Love Below was very famously not rap…the greatest rap group of all time was prematurely ended AT IT’S ABSOLUTE PEAK, because Andre could no longer be bothered to make hip hop at any kind of full time basis or even perform hip hop music that he already created…the “oh people don’t want to hear what I have to rap about at 48” bullshyt is just the latest excuse from a guy that lost his passion for rapping literally decades ago…literally nothing but sporadic one-off verses from him since the year 2000, when he was 24 years old.
So the whole subject matter and age thing conversation from him is a disingenuous take from an artist who while obviously immensely talented at the craft, has treated the art form as some kind of burdensome nuisance that’s kept him from his true calling as a painfully mediocre actor or…hilariously….a conceptual jazz flutist
Wayne is a dude that has a natural joy for rapping…people be fronting like he’s completely washed, and that’s fine…even at the peak of his career he was polarizing and not everyone’s favorite….but he’s still one of the nicest rappers doing it IMO…has numerous of my favorite verses of the year and just put out one of my favorite rap albums of the year like two weeks ago…all by not doing nothing special but doing what he loves to do…
And it’s like that with pretty much all the stuff I like the most now…Jeezy just put out one of the best projects of his career…Killer Mike made my AOTY..Nas has that same joy for rapping I hear from Wayne (the joint they have together on Magic 3 is one of my favorites of the year) and he’s largely rapping about the same shyt he has for years just from an older perspective…and he’s older than Andre
Long story short, stacks issue isn’t an age thing at all…it’s a lack of love of hip hop thing, let’s be honest
So the whole subject matter and age thing conversation from him is a disingenuous take from an artist who while obviously immensely talented at the craft, has treated the art form as some kind of burdensome nuisance that’s kept him from his true calling as a painfully mediocre actor or…hilariously….a conceptual jazz flutist
Wayne is a dude that has a natural joy for rapping…people be fronting like he’s completely washed, and that’s fine…even at the peak of his career he was polarizing and not everyone’s favorite….but he’s still one of the nicest rappers doing it IMO…has numerous of my favorite verses of the year and just put out one of my favorite rap albums of the year like two weeks ago…all by not doing nothing special but doing what he loves to do…
And it’s like that with pretty much all the stuff I like the most now…Jeezy just put out one of the best projects of his career…Killer Mike made my AOTY..Nas has that same joy for rapping I hear from Wayne (the joint they have together on Magic 3 is one of my favorites of the year) and he’s largely rapping about the same shyt he has for years just from an older perspective…and he’s older than Andre
Long story short, stacks issue isn’t an age thing at all…it’s a lack of love of hip hop thing, let’s be honest
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I hear you
But both of em so raw at rap
They could make the normal day to day sound spectacular,
Especially to someone not even in or removed from the world of fame
African Peasant
Veteran
Andre is sincere.That shyt wasn’t depressing it was dissapointing.
Dude supposed to be this deep, spiritual, bigger than rap, been out the way traveling the world ethereal being…and you have nothing to say
So he really is the male Baduwe assumed she was some deep spiritual woman meanwhile she’s just another Dallas bih. Andre just another Atlanta breh
He doesn't want to lie and give some fake deep grown man Hip-Hop (I see you Jigga)...
It Was A Poor Excuse From Andre Honestly
And I’m Sure He’s Happy In Life But When Talking About Making “Rap” Music This Deflated And Defeated Look Came Over Him
He Don’t Owe Us Shiit But I’m Just Saying
And I’m Sure He’s Happy In Life But When Talking About Making “Rap” Music This Deflated And Defeated Look Came Over Him
He Don’t Owe Us Shiit But I’m Just Saying
MurderToCassette
Sa Da Tay
Folks wanna say Hip hop a young mans game(like you gonna tear an ACL rapping)
How quickly we forget
