Yeah like personifying a gun is somehow more creative than conceptualizing Hip-Hop as a dying patient that needs to be saved due to a number of issues.
You would've thought Nas is the type of rapper to ironically do a song like that, logically since he wrote "Hip-Hop Is Dead". Can't believe of all the stupid shyt I read in here, Nas stans like you are the only ones who act like he has a monopoly on Rap songs with concepts.
Nas has way more actually creative songs than that, not to mention Organized Konfusion executed that way better 2 years before he did, besides doing it first.
Also, him being a "singles rapper" is retarded considering a huge part of his career wasn't even as popular as others excluding the C3. He was just as a creative as an emcee in his prime, like the others he was competing with.
But of course, once again you nikkas just focus on hit songs and not entire albums.
New Orleans wasn't as dikkrided as other Southern cities, until Birdman became a household name with CMB.
Southern Rap at the time lacked in being lyrically inclined in Braggadocious Rap (still does even more today), him and Luda upped the ante since then as previous rappers didn't bother trying to up their bars (Outkast were better as storytellers anyways) and usage of literary devices.
Other than Outkast, Luda, Scarface, he's the only Southern emcee in that decade who got sharper towards his prime ending, while the others quickly regressed as they began. He's meh in this decade, but to discount what he contributed as a rapper before the Auto-Tune craze, can't be forgotten or taken away from him.
As an example 50 did mixtapes before him, but Wayne revolutionized the method of how to use them to showcase an emcee's versatility to attract different kinds of Rap fans. Without him, Rap would've been one-dimensional as hell, and you wouldn't be seeing so many upcoming rappers constantly grinding.
Also, how is he not considered Hip-Hop, when he's the best rapper that ever made joints with DJ Drama?
@PhonZhi you be always making threads about the wrong rappers who you think "ruined Hip-Hop" when you have hundreds of nikkas who couldn't rap for shyt Hip-Hop dikkrided instead because they have better hits, they were from other cities, or they appeal to cacs like Em.
You nikkas love throwing certain Black rappers under the bus who gave their life to the game, and then you have the audacity to say HE is why this generation fukked up? Mind you, Kanye and T-Pain not only started those trends, but they were way more influential as commercial artists than he ever was - with that singer/rapper bullshyt.
Amazing, he does a mass appeal type of verse on a radio single from a Khaled project, but you're gonna use that for as much negative clickbait as possible to make it seem as if hundreds of rappers (you two also love) never used that formula to branch out.
I try fam.
And like I said...I ain't been a fan of Wayne in a long time but I still love that nikka on the strenght of Hip Hop (not rap music)...If I had been at that concert where dude threw the cup I would have shined that nikkas head. I just know wtf I'm talmbout...Wayne's progression was inorganic as fukk, and so were lot of the people that all of a sudden championed him and started mentioning him with the likes of Pac.
But it's ok....I love this shyt, critique Wayne if you got the chops, but don't disrespect Hip Hop or the art of rap by buying a fukking ticket to a show just to fukk it up for everybody. shyt raised my blood pressure.
#Protectlilwayne
" because he barely put in effort like he did just the previous year. He still kept his style, but it significantly got lazier due to his lean addiction.
This wasn't natural progression? He's been rapping on that style since he became a solo artist. Like from Lights Out to 500 Degreez, to the C1, then C2?
Lights Out:
Lil Wayne – Tha Blues Lyrics | Genius Lyrics
500 Degreez:
https://genius.com/Lil-wayne-fukk-you-lyrics
Tha Carter
Lil Wayne – Go DJ Lyrics | Genius Lyrics
C2:
Lil Wayne – Fly In Lyrics | Genius Lyrics
From LO to C2, you can see how his punchlines had better references overtime and how his word choice improved the syntax of the punchlines. Many of his signatures are on full display even early on. His vocabulary increase slightly on each project, and even did more storytelling and concepts as time went on. His rhyme schemes weren't "great overnight" either, he was focused more on rhyming with each track I linked here than the previous song. "Go DJ" alone, showed how much he honed his skills since his last album that "fukk You" was on, which was only 2 years prior.
Usually, I agree with you 2, but when has Gillie ever wrote rap verses that seem like he took his time with them?
You telling me a Philly nikka, can rap in the style and personality of a New Orleans native? Emulating how they write, flow, use slang and talk is not easy to replicate.
He also said multiple times he never wrote for him, but gave him tips because Wayne was already great as a rapper.
This thread got me going back through Wayne's timeline
This song was a disgrace
Gillie saved that nikka's career
level of crusty, watered down, moldy Philly cheesesteaks. Usually ghostwriters are excellent rappers thereby who are able to provide some sort of literary aide in improving a rapper's writing skill, linguistics or even reading comprehension. Gillie don't seem like the type of rapper who the Booth praises on a daily basis.
This thread got me going back through Wayne's timeline
This song was a disgrace
Gillie saved that nikka's career
Nah nikka you are just that stupid, what other lyricist at the time came up with this concept before or after him?
THIS nikka acts like y'all on here and still took the decency to breakdown why "Dr. Carter" was a statement at the time in the state of Rap, when the South had prove others wrong that it wasn't their fault. Eventually, Nas even admitted everyone including himself made Hip-Hop into what it digressed, but for some reason no one remarks about the rappers who felt differently.
The East Coast said "Hip-Hop Is Dead", yet didn't do a damn thing to even try and save it, beginning to ride on other regions waves. This was true that it needed saving, because Crunk and Auto-Tune was about take over in the game. Even Southern rappers like T.I., Luda, Chamillionaire we're clowning on nikkas who misrepresented the South.
Wayne finally took their sentiments and made a song about exactly what went on. nikkas on here criticize punchline rappers, when you nikkas make nonstop dikkriding threads on the ones who choose to make special exceptions for how "They kept Rap alive", yet didn't even try to write a song like this. Where are the punchline rappers that actually wrote shyt about preserving their culture that made them who they are?
Oh.....that's right but Wayne somehow was the one everyone wanted to the point the finger at, while 100's of others who got undeserved praise didn't do jack shyt.
