Posts tagged as lil wayne
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.” READ MORE
"Look At Me Now" And Five Other Good Rap Songs From This Week
The venerable Busta Rhymes shows us what people mean when they talk about an MC "blacking out" on a track. He rhymes so fast, enunciates so clearly, without pausing to take a breath, you'd think he'd lose consciousness. In so doing, he steals this song—with it's huge and spacious beat, which was produced by club music maestro Diplo and sounds like it will explode dance floors like the Yin Tang Twins "Wait (The Whisper Song)" did six years ago—from proprietor Chris Brown and fellow guest star Lil Wayne both. READ MORE
Rap Music Is Good Now Because Rappers Aren't Afraid To Be Weird
Proclamations that a certain era is "good" or "bad" for music are always specious. There's both good and bad music being made all the time, of course, in all different genres, and that's been true even during eras accepted as either "golden" or "dead" for whatever style you might be talking about. What's easier to talk about, what I think people are actually assessing when they talk in this way, is what's popular at a certain time in history—stylistic characteristics of the music that happens to be selling the most, or being played on popular radio stations. Of course, people often disagree about stylistic characteristics, too, whether they make for good or bad music. Different ears hear differently. Even among people as susceptible to group-think as music critics—who all proclaimed, every single last one of them, that Kanye West's My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy was a straight-A, five-star, 10.0 masterpiece and the undisputed, inarguable, scientifically proven 100 percent guaranteed best album of 2010, objectively speaking. READ MORE
Super Bowl Anthems: Lil Wayne Vs. Wiz Khalifa
Who will win the Superbowl this Sunday between the Green Bay Packers and the Pittsburgh Steelers? If the comparative performances of the teams' high profile rap-star fans can be used as a predictive gauge, Green Bay will win. Lil Wayne's Packer's-boosting remix of Wiz Khalifa's hit Pittsburgh anthem "Black and Yellow" is better than the original. READ MORE
Rock Stars Need To Stop Writing Good Books
Oh, man! Bob Dylan is going to write six more books for Simon & Schuster! That's great, because his first one was so totally excellent. But also, six more? Really? Six? When am I going to have time to read six more books by Bob Dylan? (Especially seeing as I have to spend so much time watching his old music videos on YouTube.) READ MORE
Lil Wayne Featuring Corey Gunz, "6'7'"
There's a new Lil Wayne song out. New new, recorded after he got out of prison a couple weeks ago. It was produced by Atlanta's Bangladesh (that's funny to type, I wonder if there's a producer in Bangladesh named Atlanta? There might be) who used a sample of Harry Belafonte's "Banana Boat Song" and a big, rubber-bandy sounding 808 bass beat to construct the same kind of minimalist wonder that made "A Milli" such a favorite from Wayne's last proper album The Carter III. The Carter IV will be out in February, reportedly. Psyched. Wayne sounds to be in fine form.
Lil Wayne Is Free And Wall Street's Back!
Lil Wayne was released from Rikers Island this morning. He'll now head to Las Vegas, where he'll apparently join his protege Drake on stage Saturday night, and then to Miami, for the traditional welcome home party at a strip club Sunday night. According to Mack Maine, another rapper on Wayne's Young Money label, the crew plans to "just treat him like a king, like the royalty that he is and make him feel like we really missed him and welcome him back to the family, basically." READ MORE
B.G., "Guilty By Association"
Here's a good new rap song from New Orleans rapper B.G., who was Lil Wayne's partner on Cash Money Records when they were both still in their teens, and one of the millions-selling Hot Boys crew that led the label's rise to national prominence in the late '90s. Most importantly, probably, in world-historical terms, B.G. is credited with popularizing (if not the inventing) the now ubiquitous term "bling bling," an ideophone meaning "jewelry." B.G. was a heroin addict for a while, and I like the way his voice sounds with the woozy nod of the horns on this track, which was made by local producer Big Ro, for B.G.'s independent company Chopper City Records. (And I'm glad B.G. is off heroin. It is, after all, the second-most dangerous drug...)
Mystikal Featuring Lil Wayne And Fiend, "Paper Cuts" And The Amorality Of Art
Despite the fact that he has one of the most distinctive voices hip-hop has ever known, it's hard to root for Mystikal. Recording for Master P's No Limit Records, the Operation Desert Storm veteran played a major part in putting New Orleans rap on the map in the late '90s-remember "Here I Go," or "It Ain't My Fault" or "The Man Right Chea?" Then, even as No Limit went into decline, he rose to greater stardom with a string of hits produced by Neptunes that more effectively channeled the spirit of James Brown better than any rapper ever did before or since. "Shake Ya Ass" is one of those songs that have you remembering exactly where you were the first time you heard it. (Nowhere interesting in my case, just in a car, parked in front of a friend's house in Massachusetts. But still, I remember it very well!) And "Danger," and "Bouncin' Back." He really caught something special there for a while. READ MORE
A Gift for White People: Lil Wayne's '(500) Days Of Summer' Mixtape
"This is not a mashup album, this is an album about Wayne." That's the tagline accompanying a new mixtape circulating around Tumblr that mashes-up the lyrical stylings of Lil' Wayne with the soundtrack from (500) Days Of Summer. The biggest shocker of all though is probably that it's kind of awesome? I mean, for goofy looking white people, Lil Wayne was already pretty great, but now here he is rapping over a Zooey Deschanel sample and The Smiths (at the same time!). Go download this and then think for a long time about your life and wonder if it should be legal to rap over Hall And Oates. [Download]
