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LIL' WAYNE

crispygoat

crispygoat

Aug 22, 2006
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London, Ontario
#1
argg sure he wrote 1383918 songs in the last year, but man, he should learn to speak before trying to rap, and and that song little mili or whatever ? Wow... bunch of swears with bunch of random words. argg someone should run over him with one of those G Unit SUVs.
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#2
crispygoat said:
argg sure he wrote 1383918 songs in the last year, but man, he should learn to speak before trying to rap, and and that song little mili or whatever ? Wow... bunch of swears with bunch of random words. argg someone should run over him with one of those G Unit SUVs.
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hahahahaha!
Get this... I know some guys who've worked with him and the word is....he's supplied with a butt load of blow.... gets all yipped up... and free styles, they record him, pick stuff that "works" and tell him to learn it! that's his writing style! talanted? no... (IMHO).... marketable, sure is...why I don't know!

makes ya mad huh?
 
#3
crispygoat said:
argg sure he wrote 1383918 songs in the last year, but man, he should learn to speak before trying to rap, and and that song little mili or whatever ? Wow... bunch of swears with bunch of random words. argg someone should run over him with one of those G Unit SUVs.
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He is a very intelligent individual. Went through gifted programs in all of school. As a musician, he may not be a virtuoso, but as a marketer/entrepeneur? He's making more than anyone else out there right now. He knows how to make a product that will sell (and sell a ridiculous amount at that).

Personally, if I could make that kind of money, I'd be doing whatever selling out/dumbing down necessary to do it.
 
#4
I noticed in an ad the other day that he has two tear tattoos under his right eye, isn't that supposed to indicate that he's killed people before? I don't know why, but I doubt he has, so it just him trying to look "thug"?

I'm with you Visirale, all the money, parties and women you could ever want? Hell yea, I'd do it. You can always have more "legit" side projects :D
 
#6
Phantopeth said:
I noticed in an ad the other day that he has two tear tattoos under his right eye, isn't that supposed to indicate that he's killed people before? I don't know why, but I doubt he has, so it just him trying to look "thug"?

I'm with you Visirale, all the money, parties and women you could ever want? Hell yea, I'd do it. You can always have more "legit" side projects :D
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I got this definition from Urban Dictionary

Traditionally the tattoo tear signified that the wearer had killed someone. The meaning of the tattoo however can vary between ethnicity and region. For example in australia, a tattoo tear is sometimes forefully tattooed on an inmate who had sexually assualted a child. More recently the tattoo tear has come to mean a fellow family or gang member has dies while the wearer was incarcerated. If you do not fit any of these criteria don't get a tear tattoo.
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#9
In terms of musicality, I say Lil Wayne's stuff is absolutely garbage. As of the song you're talking about, A Milli, it's garbage too. Sure, rappers throw in some curse words to keep the song flowing so there wouldn't be awkward pauses when he has nothing to say between two phrases, but you can't make a song out of curse words and use regular words as connectors. If you think that's bad, listen to 3 Peat.
But his music if very likeable. I don't know why, but it's just got some ring to it. And no it's not the talkbox since T-Pain uses talkbox as well and sounds like crap all the time.
Overall, I wouldn't mind listening to Lil Wayne do some talk-rap here and there in a song or two (like in Fat Joe's Make It Rain), but I can't stand listening to him rapping/singing a whole song all by himself.
 
#10
I don't like rap music because of all the trash on the radio these days, but then there are rap fans who don't like rock because of rock music on radio.

A friend of mine has changed my opinion by showing me rap music where there are musicians and they actually speak about social issues. Public enemy comes to mind, because of their political lyrics, and a bassist who uses a Steinberger.

Basically, try to stay away from top 40 artists.
 
#12
Hmm do I have to come to the rescue for rap justification in every thread it comes up in?

Go check out the roots then get back to me. That's modern musical/socially conscious hip hop 101.

And if you want to try out some more experimental stuff musically, J dilla did more with samples and production than most can do with instruments and writing...

Then look into: Common, Talib Kweli, Mos Def, and oh so many more.

And for NAS stick to the first couple of albums. The last few have been a little :hmm:... Illmatic and Stillmatic are legendary though.
 
#14
HOOLIGAN said:
Um, he drinks cough syrup all day long-Not too bright.
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You don't? Man you're missing out... :smug:

And once again... if I could sell a million albums in a week, I wouldn't really care about what you thought about my use and abuse of drugs... And let us not get selective with our criticisms here... how many star musicians that we look up to have/had drug problems?
 
#15
Visirale said:
Hmm do I have to come to the rescue for rap justification in every thread it comes up in?

Go check out the roots then get back to me. That's modern musical/socially conscious hip hop 101.

And if you want to try out some more experimental stuff musically, J dilla did more with samples and production than most can do with instruments and writing...

Then look into: Common, Talib Kweli, Mos Def, and oh so many more.

And for NAS stick to the first couple of albums. The last few have been a little :hmm:... Illmatic and Stillmatic are legendary though.
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whoa dude... I too am the hiphop genre jedi defender... but I don't think peeps are downing hiphop... they're commenting on lil wayne... all in context so far... as far as I can see.
 
#19
Visirale said:
He is a very intelligent individual. Went through gifted programs in all of school. As a musician, he may not be a virtuoso, but as a marketer/entrepeneur? He's making more than anyone else out there right now. He knows how to make a product that will sell (and sell a ridiculous amount at that).

Personally, if I could make that kind of money, I'd be doing whatever selling out/dumbing down necessary to do it.
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ahahahahaahahahaha, ya he's intelligent. wow you have low standards. The guy can't even speak without sounding half ********.

He is not a marketer or an entrepeneur. He is just another in the long line of rappers that the music business pukes out.

Rules for making it it rap music:

1. Be black and a thug if not try real hard to act like you are.

2. Be thug and promote gang violence. If not and instead you are really a wimpy little weenie from the subburbs pretend you are from the street and hard.

3. Make sure to rap about bitches.

4. Make sure to rap about hoes.

5. Make sure to rap about gang life and violence. And promote being a criminal and violent as a great way to live.

6. Make sure to rap about how you feel about black culture and how, "the man," is keeping you down.

7. Make sure to rap about how much flow your raps have and that no one can beat them and everyone is jealous.

8. Make sure to wear a sports jearsey at some point.

9. Make sure to wear a baseball cap and turn to a slant that looks like someone tried to knock it off your head but you were too lazy to correct it.

10. Wear a rediculous amount of jewelery to show your fans how they are making you rich.

11. Wear a jewel encrusted, "grill," on your teeth even though you don't wear braces. This is really important as it will help you slur your words even more.

12. Make sure that some of your raps try to invent new colorful phrases in the hopes the phrase will catch on and people will repeat it.

13. When you play live make sure to hire a real band to back you up to make you look like a real artist.

14. When you play live make sure to have a team of other rappers around echoing parts of raps.

15.It's also a must that you and your hype men have no sense of pitch and sound very little like the recorded version of the rap. Even better if it's obvious that you are about the lose your voice, even though all you are doing is rapping.

16. When you can't find a good rhyme for a word make up new word that never exsisted before.

17. When you can't be bothered to write your own beats and background for your raps just rip off another artists and call it sampleing.

18. Make sure to have guest rappers/artist on your album to make up for the lack or real musical content, creativity and general skill.
 

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