Quote: (03-15-2013 10:29 PM)Goldin Boy Wrote:
Lil Wayne is slightly above average. The overall quality of rap lyricism, imo has plummeted and in the land of the blind the one-eyed man is king. All this songs are this weird stream-of-consciousness style where he strings together a few couplets and punchlines.
Lil Wayne is a different type of rapper. He tells a lot of story and has a lot of meaning in his earlier songs, but one of Weezy's talents is how he can dissect the beat. I consider his flow to be pretty original and he certainly changed rap in terms of the stretches people are willing to take while rhyming.
For example, I think he was one of the first to mispronounce words during a rhyme then correct himself while connecting the correction to another rhyme. One of my favorite rhymes of his is on
this song, it's pretty creative to make a rhyme about an actual conversation you can imagine having with a girl.
Quote: (03-15-2013 10:29 PM)Goldin Boy Wrote:
"Hate" is most overused term in the hip-hop community. It's used to b/c the user can't think of a rational way to rebut a criticism so they have to reframe the criticism as not having a place in objective reality. Maybe people don't like them b/c they're weak rappers? Hot beats give songs a short shelf life.
Legitimate criticism is, "I don't like his music," or "He isn't a good rapper, in my opinion," not "I don't care if he dies and neither should you."
Quote: (03-15-2013 10:29 PM)Goldin Boy Wrote:
Drake is #2 on YMCMB but Common bodied him with subliminal bars. Cory Guns is cool but they industry doesn't know how to market East Coast rappers anymore. Ergo Weezy is Young Money, as he goes, they all go.
Common wasn't very subliminal. In my opinion Drakes verse on Stay Schemin' was one of the best verses I've heard by Drizzy.
Drake, Nicki Minaj, and Tyga have all built up pretty solid fanbases even without Weezy. I doubt their careers would suffer too much if he passed.