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Lil Wayne, "It's Good"
“I know there won’t be any repercussions behind what I did. I know for a fact music is about perception. You can’t do anything but perceive what you hear. I know that for a fact. So I can’t ever be upset about someone’s reaction.”
—Lil Wayne says something about facts and perception when asked by Vibe about dissing Jay-Z on his new song, which samples the title track from The Alan Parsons Project's 1976 album, The Cask of Amantillado.
Remember that great Alan Parsons Project video from 1984?
I love that one. Maybe Jay-Z should sample it for his response record. The title serving as a subtle way of saying, "Let's let this be the end of this."
That song is absolutely terrible. I like a lot of contemporary mainstream hip-hop, but this is like the absolute worst aspects of the genre all rolled into one. The beat is okay, but the wordplay and "flow" are just terrible, slow, and uninteresting, particularly Wayne's verse. It made me just hate all these guys, and I actually don't usually hate Drake.
You can really tell how much "Watch the Throne" was about black power by how Jay-Z went out of his way to mock other successful black men, prompting those other successful black men to mock him and say they were going to kidnap his girlfriend and hold her for ransom. Black power!