Thanks to the great folks at Universal Motown, I was one of the first people to check out Lil’ Wayne’s new single, ‘Prom Queen.’ If you haven’t heard, his next album is going to be a rock album. I know. You’re probably wondering the same thing I am, but rest assured, the album will go double platinum. Mark my word. But that’s neither here nor there. Apparently, it’s every rap artist’s ideal to want to cross over and no longer be seen as a rap artist but an ARTIST. You know, like Bruce Springsteen and Billy Joel status. Jay hasn’t even been able to make it there.
The crazy part though is that Weezy is doing everything Kanye wishes he could do. He’s made a slow transition from being a hood rapper, getting their respect, selling records, then catering to our paler counterparts by ‘playing’ (does he actually even play that thing or is it a tape? I don’t know. I’ve never seen him in concert) a guitar during his songs. Talk about marketing. I feel like Wayne’s been plotting this for years…and to think that it all started with the guitar rift on ‘Leather So Soft.’
Either way, back to Mr. Autotune Takeover. I’m not going to front like the rest of the blogosphere and media, 808’s pretty much sucked. Straight up, Kanye sounded like a kindergarten child who was dumped by his first girlfriend. Grow up. Be a man. Grow a sack. It’s crazy how people even boosted that album to even being mentioned as a classic. It’s just as artistic as a 10th grader fingerpainting for a Poli Sci class. Think about it. It makes no damn sense. For the record, the best and probably only listenable song on that whole record was ‘Street Lights.’
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If Kanye was more of an anger management reject like 50 Cent, he would probably start a beef with Weezy. All that artistic love and integrity that artists claim to have for each other goes out the window when one one-ups another. They’re all big babies and never want to be any less out of the limelight than they were last week. Just ask Lindsay Lohan.
That 808 venture was supposed to boost Kanye into a stratosphere where he would no longer be a rapper because I mean, we all know that rap music is too good to be played in his new house. But Lil’ Wayne is about to take ‘Ye’s idea and run with it. Besides that, he’s going to be releasing a couple of more albums in ‘09, but shhhh! you didn’t hear that from me. Imagine that for rap. One rapper just taking everything by storm. He’s going to be the only person actually selling records this year.
I feel like the craziest part about this WHOLE situation is that I came into this post thinking about sh*tting on Weezy’s whole existence. But the powers that be and if I would like to have a job in these times of hardship, I better shut my ass up. Take that as a hint as to what my occupation actually is and not be being another scarred jiggaboo blogger. Either way, while i was writing, I actually had to stop and respect his grind. I mean, all of you stans are going to buy his album anyway. So at this point, I feel like TI could come out with a country album and he’ll be on a track with Taylor Swift and be the 2nd rapper to go diamond.
In other words, you guys need to wake up. Stop supporting garbage. Buy Rebirth so I can see some checks. YEEAAAA!!!!
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