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Jon
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"I've decided it's finally time for me to give Lil Wayne a chance"


          

I used to think he sucks, because I'm from the generation that was introduced to him as the little retarded kid saying "wobble dee wobble" on Juvenile's song lol

And other dumb shit from early in his career

Totally unfair, but I couldn't shake that impression of him for most of his "prime" (popularity prime, I mean).

But a couple years ago it hit me that the dude actually developed into a fuckin good rapper and I was just too closed minded to notice.

Still I just noted that observation and KIM, but now I'm interested.

Where should I start?

  

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Ha I did this a few years back. I'm not well versed enough to tell you ....
Mar 09th 2018
1
Yeah lol, I know I'm not the only one
Mar 16th 2018
31
He snapped on that "Family Fued" track a few weeks ago.
Mar 09th 2018
2
Go DJ is a good starting point since you're not well-versed
Mar 09th 2018
3
Peak Wayne is easily the most polarizing "best rapper in the game" ever
Mar 09th 2018
4
I fuck with Carter III for LIFE!!...but, not much else...
Mar 09th 2018
5
that's kinda where I started.
Mar 13th 2018
16
RE: I fuck with Carter III for LIFE!!...but, not much else...
Mar 23rd 2018
42
Man that verse on that Solange track had me
Mar 09th 2018
6
Start with The Carter
Mar 11th 2018
7
Sqad 4 mixtape
Mar 12th 2018
8
I don't see myself digging into his discography anytime soon...
Mar 13th 2018
9
Facts and same.
Mar 13th 2018
18
This post is kinda odd
Mar 13th 2018
10
RE: This post is kinda odd
Mar 13th 2018
11
Correct.
Mar 13th 2018
19
i mean, its a joke in the description of The Lesson
Mar 16th 2018
33
      Haha holy shit that's right.
Mar 22nd 2018
41
Carter 2 is one of the best rap albums of the 2000s, if not best
Mar 15th 2018
25
I was like you 99-05. 06 is when is started for me.
Mar 13th 2018
12
Same but Hollywood Divorce did it for me
Mar 13th 2018
14
      Same here. That was the co-sign I needed, and he delivered...
Mar 16th 2018
28
he's still the poster child for how shitty rap became in the 00s...
Mar 13th 2018
13
two things: 1) he could really spit and 2) he did way too many drugs
Mar 14th 2018
21
BM JR. , start there.
Mar 13th 2018
15
Lots of great replies in here. What would be ur 10-track starter kit?
Mar 13th 2018
17
if you just want proof that he was a great rapper at one point...
Mar 14th 2018
20
      listen to this man.
Mar 14th 2018
23
      i like no ceilings the most out of mostly everything...
Mar 15th 2018
26
      Ok... question: if it weren't for label shit, would he still be dope?
Mar 16th 2018
32
           Hard to say
Mar 18th 2018
35
           No, he slipped hard.
Mar 19th 2018
36
                The turning point for me was when 808's came out
Mar 19th 2018
37
                     what a let down. "Dick Pleaser" is titanic though.
Mar 20th 2018
38
      Thanks! That list is where I'm going to start. Perfect.
Mar 16th 2018
29
      Sorry for being redundant
Mar 16th 2018
34
my youngest sister's love for him is what made stop
Mar 14th 2018
22
I actually made a Lil Wayne mix....covers ALL of his eras, made in 2015
Mar 14th 2018
24
ha ha, I actually came in to mention this.
Mar 16th 2018
27
Man! It STILL never came out, that's nuts to me!!!
Mar 21st 2018
39
Oh shit, I'll be checking this out asap too
Mar 16th 2018
30
I'm not there yet.... nm
Mar 22nd 2018
40
I used to think the same of Lil Wayne. In his Hot Boys days, he
Mar 30th 2018
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Brew
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1. "Ha I did this a few years back. I'm not well versed enough to tell you ...."
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Fri Mar-09-18 02:43 PM by Brew

          

... where to start, but I will say that the stuff I enjoyed the most when I revisited him with a more open mind was his mid-2000s and late-2000s mixtape stuff. He was like a funnier Eminem when he was on his game. Lots of really fun, engaging music and dope wordplay, and he was flowing like a motherfucker during that time period.

Sorry I'm not more help but just wanted to co-sign everything you said below. I went through pretty much the exact same process with Weezy for the exact same reasons. Haha.


>I used to think he sucks, because I'm from the generation
>that was introduced to him as the little retarded kid saying
>"wobble dee wobble" on Juvenile's song lol
>
>And other dumb shit from early in his career
>
>Totally unfair, but I couldn't shake that impression of him
>for most of his "prime" (popularity prime, I mean).
>
>But a couple years ago it hit me that the dude actually
>developed into a fuckin good rapper and I was just too closed
>minded to notice.
>
>Still I just noted that observation and KIM, but now I'm
>interested.
>
>Where should I start?

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31. "Yeah lol, I know I'm not the only one"
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2. "He snapped on that "Family Fued" track a few weeks ago."
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3. "Go DJ is a good starting point since you're not well-versed"
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Fri Mar-09-18 03:51 PM by wrecknoble

  

          

and then listen to The Carter and The Carter 2 in their entirety

he had a whole slew of mixtapes filled with BARS over the years, but those are the 2 studio albums i'd start with

Go DJ is easily in my Top 5 tracks by Lil Wayne.. that shit gets me amped up every time i hear it

lyrics:

verse 1:

Murder 101, the hottest nigga under the sun
I come from under the Tommy busting a Tommy
You come from under ya garments, ya chest and ya arm hit
Pow! One to the head, now you know he dead
Now, you know I play it, like a pro in the game
Naw, better yet, a veteran, a hall of fame
I got that medicine, I'm better than all the names
Ay, it's Cash Money Records, man, a lawless gang
Put some water on the track, Fresh, for all this flame
Wear a helmet when you bang it, man, and guard your brain
'Cause the flow is spazmatic, what they call insane
That ain't even my motherfuckin' aim, I gets dough, boy
And you already know that pimpin'
18, how I'm living? Young'n, show that Bentley
Stunna my Pa, so you know that's in me
Gotti my mentor, so don't go there with me, oh!
(Let me hit the blunt first)

verse 2:

And I move like the coupe through traffic
Rush hour, GT Bent', roof is absent
Your bitch present with the music blastin'
And she keep askin', "How it shoot if it's plastic?"
I tell her, "You'll see if your boy run up"
She sat back and cut Tha Carter back up, uh, fo' sho'
Ay, Big Mike, they better step they's authority up
Before they step to a sergeant's son, I got army guns
You niggas never harmin' Young
Fly Wizzy, my opponent's done, I'm done talkin' (shut up)
And I ain't just begun
I been runnin' my city like Diddy, you chump
I fly by you in a foreign whip
On the throttle, with a model-bony bitch, pair of phony tits
Her hair is long as shit, to her thong and shit
Well, here we go, so hold on to this

verse 3:

Birdman, put them niggas in the trash can
Leave 'em outside of your door, I'm your trash man
I'm steady lighting up the hash, and, riding in my Jag
You will need a gas mask, man
You snakes, stop hiding in the grass
Sooner or later I'll cut it, now the blade's in your ass
You homo niggas getting AIDS in the ass
While the homie here tryna get paid in advance
I'm staying on my grizzy, I'm a bona fide hustler
Play me or play with me, then I'm goin for your mother
Niggas wanna eat, 'cause they ain't ate nothin'
But niggas wanna leave when you say you out of mustard
So I'ma walk into the restaurant alone
Leaving out, leaving behind just residue and bones
In your residence with Rugers to your dome
Like, "Where the fuck you holding the coke?"
Holding your throat, choke

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4. "Peak Wayne is easily the most polarizing "best rapper in the game" ever"
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I can understand why folks loved him, and even why so many folks at the time hated him and felt he was garbage and overrated.

He was personality times ten. He said a lotta random lines that were silly and playful, and played with his childish voice a lot..and used unorthodox deliveries. But he was a complete monster overall, and showed that he could kill ANY type of beat you throw at him.

It took me a while to get "No ceilings" because I was looking for fully developed songs instead of him just going off like he did.

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5. "I fuck with Carter III for LIFE!!...but, not much else..."
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Let the Beat Build is him at his finest, for me.

...I'm from the era when A.I. was the answer, now they think ai is the answer - Marlon Craft

  

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16. "that's kinda where I started."
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I like that album, but never really checked for much else.

always dug A milli and that other 6 Foot 7 though.

Y'all buy those labels, I was born supreme

  

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42. "RE: I fuck with Carter III for LIFE!!...but, not much else..."
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>Let the Beat Build is him at his finest, for me.

Such a dope track. Never gets old for me.

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6. "Man that verse on that Solange track had me"
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Wondering what I’ve been missing.

Think it was called Mad

  

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7. "Start with The Carter"
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The Carter 1 is when he first started to get that widespread recognition for his bars. The Carter 2 is his DipSet Jr. stuff but also a must listen.

Mixtape wise I'd start with Dedication 1 and 2, Drought 3, The Prefix and Suffix

For the most part those projects represent his prime "GOAT" era

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8. "Sqad 4 mixtape "
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When I heard that joint I knew you couldn't front on weezy

Awesome to see how far Currency has come since then

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9. "I don't see myself digging into his discography anytime soon..."
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So, no recommendations.

That being said, some of these newer rappers*** make him seem like Rakim. But! There I go again, not taking him seriously as a hip-hop artist and being a curmudgeon. Oops.

I will say that my view of him is notably better than it was when I was a Rawkus-obsessed teen in 2002.

One factor that contributed to that change:

If I recall correctly, someone I really respect-- Black culture writer and scholar Mark Anthony Neal--- spoke at Columbia College in Chicago in 2010 as part of a symposium on Michael Jackson. The presentation, which I am probably oversimplifying, discussed vocal styling similarities between Michael Jackson and Weezy, if that makes any sense...

Watching a brilliant and serious critic of modern Black music taking him seriously made me realize I was probably being narrow-minded?

The tile of the presentation was titled, "Sampling Michael: The Performance of Rhythm, Masculinity, and Nostalgia”." This happens to be the same name of an article he authored, though the article doesn't mention Lil' Wayne like his presentation did: http://www.newblackmaninexile.net/2012/08/sampling-michael-rhythm-masculinity.html

Like Stadiq, I dug Wayne's verse on "Mad" from Solange's Seat At The Table. That is probably my favorite verse by him. He was aight on "Hollywood Divorce" from the Idlewild soundtrack, though he clearly got outshined by 3 Stacks.

His feature rap on Kelly Rowland's "Motivation" was nice but not in a Masta Killa on Da Mystery of Chessboxin'-like manner. Ha! Like, I see you with the fun wordplay, Weezy.

***One shitty song that comes to mind is "Lifestyle" by Rich Gang featuring Young Thug & Rich Homie Quan!

LORDT!!!

I discovered this through Tracee Elllis Ross' fun rapper alter ego, T-Murda. She tried to rap along to this joint and it just further stressed how turrible some rap is today. Whew.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=59DepfeC9Uo

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18. "Facts and same."
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>That being said, some of these newer rappers*** make him seem
>like Rakim.
>
>I will say that my view of him is notably better than it was
>when I was a Rawkus-obsessed teen in 2002.

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10. "This post is kinda odd"
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The carter 2 is a classic, full stop.

I don't know why Lil Wayne having demonstrated talent and skill as a rapper over 10 years ago is put off as a revelation.

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11. "RE: This post is kinda odd"
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I mean, dude came into the game as part of Cash Money. And this is Okayplayer, a site that was heavily promoting artists like Common and Talib. I can see why cats on THIS site might have ignored him/not taken him seriously.

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19. "Correct."
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33. "i mean, its a joke in the description of The Lesson"
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41. "Haha holy shit that's right."
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25. "Carter 2 is one of the best rap albums of the 2000s, if not best"
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12. "I was like you 99-05. 06 is when is started for me."
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I'd go with the Carter 2,3,4

The Suffix mixtape

I'd also do the "Drought" and "Dedication" series



When he went IN on over the "We Takin' Over" track. LAHHD!

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14. "Same but Hollywood Divorce did it for me"
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He opened that song with introspective and clever verse on an Outkast song. Got my attention

  

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28. "Same here. That was the co-sign I needed, and he delivered..."
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Became a big fan for a few years during his prime.

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13. "he's still the poster child for how shitty rap became in the 00s..."
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21. "two things: 1) he could really spit and 2) he did way too many drugs"
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his offspring only inherited the 2nd trait, not the first

  

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15. "BM JR. , start there."
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17. "Lots of great replies in here. What would be ur 10-track starter kit?"
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20. "if you just want proof that he was a great rapper at one point..."
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I'm a D Boy
Addictive Freestyle
Ambitionz as a Ridah freestyle
Receipt
Fly In/Carter 2/Fly Out three-song set
Top Back Freestyle
Show Me What ya Got freestyle
Hollywood Divorce
Sky's the Limit
No Other

really, his prime is Squad 4 mixtape to Carter 3, and the bullseye is Carter 2/Dedication 2/Drought 3. The creativity and seeming ease of his output during this period was unlike anything I'd ever heard. Just really inspired bars on bars on bars.

  

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23. "listen to this man."
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lil_Wayne_albums_discography#Mixtapes

basically 03-08

sqad 4
prefix/suffix
carter 1-3
dedication 1-3
drought 1-3

all worth checking out. that was the run.

i liked no ceilings. lot of folx didn't. beginning of the end started there tho.

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26. "i like no ceilings the most out of mostly everything..."
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...it's not better than some of those releases, but he really was at his best during this era

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32. "Ok... question: if it weren't for label shit, would he still be dope?"
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35. "Hard to say "
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I’d lean towards “probably not”. His downfall was doing two things in excess - drugs and releasing music . He was too smacked and just put way too much stuff out. That’s become his legacy in a way really - all of these new rappers put out way too much music which makes it hard to distinguish what exactly is special. Also, these rappers celebrate hard drug use which Wayne definitely made en vogue.

However, there’s still flashes. He put a song out about two years ago with Drake called “Believe Me” which was supposed to be the lead single to the since-aborted Carter 5.
Wayne snapped on that song and proved he still had it.

  

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36. "No, he slipped hard."
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Mon Mar-19-18 12:06 PM by Nodima

  

          

Within two years after Carter III nearly every punchline was about how unique he was for eating pussy, a riff on the nickname Weezy F. Baby, something about how he was the shit involving a stupid literal feces metaphor/simile, etc.


and Lil' Wayne is my most-listened to rapper by a country mile. When dude fell, he fell harder than any rapper EVER has.


He's staging a comeback now, but I secretly think he's living a very clean, focused life at the moment. Nobody's necessarily looking for him anymore and Baby won't really let him release music commercially so there's not much in it for him other than proving he can hang with the generation he created. He seems like he's settling into the back half of his career more comfortably than you'd have predicted ten years ago.


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37. "The turning point for me was when 808's came out"
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and he was like "If he can do that, i can do anything"

then Dedication 3 came out...

  

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38. "what a let down. "Dick Pleaser" is titanic though."
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in the positive sense of the word.


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29. "Thanks! That list is where I'm going to start. Perfect."
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34. "Sorry for being redundant"
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but how many of those tracks compare to how hard Wayne came on that Fat Albert Currency track from a while ago? I'm not a huge fan of Lil Wayne, but he completely blacked out on that song and I'm looking for stuff where he performed on that level.

For other's reading this that don't know what I'm referring to, here's a link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NawBVkdEyyQ .

"Sean sparks like John Starks, nah, Sean ball like John Wall" - Rest In Power Forever Sean Price.

  

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22. "my youngest sister's love for him is what made stop"
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being a hater around 2008, which was his zenith with Carter III

I don't love any of his albums, but he got hella tracks and can rhyme his ass off

  

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24. "I actually made a Lil Wayne mix....covers ALL of his eras, made in 2015"
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27. "ha ha, I actually came in to mention this."
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You had it strategically released just prior to The Carter V's release date...and then Birdman messed everything up.

A great overview though, thanks again. Always enjoy your mixes. Especially the 90's series and the 500 song West Coast mix.

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39. "Man! It STILL never came out, that's nuts to me!!!"
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Thanks for that! Yeah, I wanted to touch as many sides of Wayne as I could. It's hard bc he's put out sooooo much!

>You had it strategically released just prior to The Carter
>V's release date...and then Birdman messed everything up.
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>A great overview though, thanks again. Always enjoy your
>mixes. Especially the 90's series and the 500 song West Coast
>mix.

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30. "Oh shit, I'll be checking this out asap too"
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40. "I'm not there yet.... nm"
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43. "I used to think the same of Lil Wayne. In his Hot Boys days, he "
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sounded rather lackadaisical which turned me off from most of his 1st album. What made give him another chance was hearing "Go DJ" at work. Nice beat, and he actually put a bit more life into his rapping. What ultimately made me a believer in his talent was "BM Jr," though I'll admit I wanted to write off for the meh start until halfway through the 1st verse when I caught that "they riding up the highway to Heaven Boulevard/FUCK 'EM!/them niggas pussy and jive/not even in an eye exam, they ain't looking for I" line.

Anyways, where should you check?

BM Jr
A Milli
Bitches Love Me w/ Drake and Future
How To Hate w/ T-Pain
Be Me

Money On My Mind
Fuck Tha World (one of the best songs he ever made)
Pray To The Lord
Army Gunz
I Miss My Dawgs

She Will w/ Drake
Bounce w/ 2Chainz

Rest In Peace, Bad News Brown

  

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