Lil Wayne calls Andre 3000's remarks about rapping over 40 "depressing"

[3:30]

Hip Hop keeps you in a perpetual state of adolescence and degeneracy. Kudos to 3 stacks for escaping that endless of loop.

If you look at how all these oldheads turned out, he ain't really missing much.

You mean like Nas ?

We ain’t even talking about regular rappers



Shyt Juicy J Is 48 and still sounds mint

 

[BK The Great]

Wayne has been making somewhat different music over the years, but do majority of his fans want to listen to this kinda stuff? They want punchlines. He just dropped a new song this week too.

 

[Dwight Howard]

I think Wayne's best work has aged quite well...

But he has been washed for a decade, it's 2024 in a month. Wayne hasn't been an elite spitter in a decade. So he was really done as an elite spitter by his early 30s...

So Dre's comment really is about guys like Wayne. Wayne should stop rapping, he's doing his legacy a disservice with every year that passes and we get the same verses and songs we've always gotten from him...

Awful take. Wayne is STILL one of the best spitters in the game and it isn't up for debate if you've listened to just his shyt from this year. I mean he washed several rappers on features this year alone, there is a reason he is still one of the most featured artist in music period.

 

[Buckeye Fever]

I respect 3Stacks.

You know how many old ass dudes in rap who try to "keep up with the times", rappin' about some non-age appropriate bullshyt?

 

[Big Boss]

Andre's comment was real and you're confusing his point. He's asking how does an old rapper talk about his day to day life and still make it interesting. He didn't say you can't be old and rap. It's about the content and how the audience connects to it.

Nas is 50 but he still mixes in old street stories into his music. Nas ain't been in the streets in decades. That's not his day to day. Ask him to make an album only talking about the present 50 year old Nas and I bet he'd have a harder time coming up with something because there's still a need to be cool and interesting. He'd probably say his current life is too boring to make into an album.

What is Wayne saying today that shows his age? A Wayne verse at 41 is a Wayne verse at 25.

Jadakiss is still talking about coke and street shyt at 48. You can go back to Money, Power, and Respect and it's the same Kiss.

Pusha still talking about coke at 46.

That's the case for most of rappers. They're not making songs about taking their kids to soccer practice and helping with homework. Dudes will be at home at night with their wives but get in the booth and rap about hoes. None of that is real. What good is rapping into your late 40's if you still have to act like you're in your 20's? You age but your content doesn't.

Dre was talking about making his current life into an album. Sure he could mix in stories about old shyt and just write random bars but that's not what he wants to do. He's not outside. Going to the laundromat and playing his flute is a highlight of his day but that's not translating into an album.

And funny you mentioned Styles because he said he's retired as a solo artist.

Facts

 

[Shadow King]

Its a cop out. He dint wanna lose what he has. A 40 yr old man should have more to say than a 20. It dont even make sense. Noone said he had to rap like a 20 yr old. Its just he knows thats only way itll pop.

Andre likes the attention. Idgaf what anyone says. He wouldnt have dressed likebthey walking around nyc playing flute like a weirdo if he didnt. He knows if he raps itll never live up to hype and hes scared. He ruined outkast reunion shows by turning his back tot he crowd, he is a living contrarian. He can never be the goat with that attitude sorry. Just keep playing ya flute pied piper.

And whose fault is that?

 

[Bugzbunny129]

And whose fault is that?

His?

Dude had 20 years to make 10 songs that mean something. Noone said he had to keep up with the kids today

fukk the kids todY arent even selling like that. Its the legends on tour all over the world right now: 50, nas/wu, etc. nas just made like 6 albums in as many years. Whats his excuse? Is nas rapping like a 20 yr old? Does cry about it being a young mans game?

It WAS a young mans game. Now its something else because the older mcs kept it going. Was slick rick too old when he did art of atorytellin? Hell, the closest rapper to andre was jay electronica and he came out at 36 rhyming per his age. Andre couodnt do something similar? Is he an artist or is he bound to fans expectations? A real artist makes music for himself; and granted the flute shyt was a nice try but hes long overdue.

 

[Big Boss]

Its a cop out. He dint wanna lose what he has. A 40 yr old man should have more to say than a 20. It dont even make sense. Noone said he had to rap like a 20 yr old. Its just he knows thats only way itll pop.

Andre likes the attention. Idgaf what anyone says. He wouldnt have dressed likebthey walking around nyc playing flute like a weirdo if he didnt. He knows if he raps itll never live up to hype and hes scared. He ruined outkast reunion shows by turning his back tot he crowd, he is a living contrarian. He can never be the goat with that attitude sorry. Just keep playing ya flute pied piper.

U sure about that we still got rappers rapping about bytches, shooting and drugs in their 40s

 

[spliz]

fukk what Dre saying. Cats like Nas showing and proving.

 

[Shadow King]

His?

Dude had 20 years to make 10 songs that mean something. Noone said he had to keep up with the kids today

fukk the kids todY arent even selling like that. Its the legends on your alm over the world right now: 50, nas/wu, etc. nas just made like 6 albums in as many years. Whats his excuse? Is nas rapping like a 20 yr old? Does cry about it being a young mans game?

It WAS a young mans game. Now its something else. Hell, the closest rapper to andre was jay electronica and he came out at 36 rhyming per his age. Andre couodnt do something similar? Is he an artist or is he bound to fans expectations? A real artist makes music for himself; and granted the flute shyt was a nice try but hes long overdue.

No, it's not his fault.

Again, stop using Nas, or any of these rappers. They're not talking about anything specific to be his age. None of these dudes are.

 

[I'm Blackman]

Andre's comment was real and you're confusing his point. He's asking how does an old rapper talk about his day to day life and still make it interesting. He didn't say you can't be old and rap. It's about the content and how the audience connects to it.

Nas is 50 but he still mixes in old street stories into his music. Nas ain't been in the streets in decades. That's not his day to day. Ask him to make an album only talking about the present 50 year old Nas and I bet he'd have a harder time coming up with something because there's still a need to be cool and interesting. He'd probably say his current life is too boring to make into an album.

What is Wayne saying today that shows his age? A Wayne verse at 41 is a Wayne verse at 25.

Jadakiss is still talking about coke and street shyt at 48. You can go back to Money, Power, and Respect and it's the same Kiss.

Pusha still talking about coke at 46.

That's the case for most of rappers. They're not making songs about taking their kids to soccer practice and helping with homework. Dudes will be at home at night with their wives but get in the booth and rap about hoes. None of that is real. What good is rapping into your late 40's if you still have to act like you're in your 20's? You age but your content doesn't.

Dre was talking about making his current life into an album. Sure he could mix in stories about old shyt and just write random bars but that's not what he wants to do. He's not outside. Going to the laundromat and playing his flute is a highlight of his day but that's not translating into an album.

And funny you mentioned Styles because he said he's retired as a solo artist.

excellent...excellent post. I dont know why this so hard to understand. I love the artists you mentioned but you correctly pointed out that part of their subject matter is old street shyt.

Thats why i stopped listening to TI (for the most part) and still enjoy some Jeezy. Its like bruh you're 44...you havent cooked crack in a kitchen in decades bruh, i dont wanna hear that from you now.

 

[Bugzbunny129]

U sure about that we still got rappers rapping about bytches, shooting and drugs in their 40s

Yea because they trying to keep up and stay relevant to the youth instead of cultivating their own base. And we got other rappers who do their own thing;

Nas. Killah priest. Jay elect. Slick rick. Mos def. fukk even talib who i despise. Method man. Raekwon. Etc etc etc

No, it's not his fault.

Again, stop using Nas, or any of these rappers. They're not talking about anything specific to be his age. None of these dudes are.

So whos fault is it man? The world? The world cant take resposibility. Only man can. Stop making excuses. Its a dumb thing to say and hes been saying it for YEARS. literally can rap about anything and he crying he got no subject matter. The world is falling apat around us. We just had a global pandemic. We got a drug epidemic that eclipses anythjing weve ever seen. The streets are a mess. He wouldnt know i guess since hes playing flute wuth his nose up in the streets

Nas didnt rap about grown man shyt on life is good abou marriage and being a father? Are his raps played out?

Jay didnt attenot the same thing with 444?

He can write stuff like int playas anthem then but cant now? He could rhyme about relationships on art of storytellin but vamt now? Ok…

He can show and write a verse when asked for a feature tho. Thats no problem…

just admit hes not the creative genius yall took him for. Giys like ghostface rapping about a forest of cartoons, going to elementary school, gettin whipped as a kid, looking at the sun, praying to allah underwater, and talking shyt to a wrist watch… like 20 years ago. Doom never did any of that young rapper shyt and became a top draw doing his own thing. Amdre has NO excuses. Its called an imagination. Use it.

 

[NormanConnors]

Wayne still snapping. Andre still raps from time to time so he can’t really say too much aside from Wayne is way nicer at this stage.

Nicer than Andre? Nah he wasn't then and isn't right now.

 

[Rev Leon Lonnie Love]

that nikka looks terrible and sounds worse.

They saying he battling liver failure

 

[WhatsGoodTy]

Wayne is 40+ rapping about the same shyt he was rapping about in 2007.

p*ssy is timeless.