I saw this article on this digital hip hop website. (http://www.hhcdigital.net/HHCDigital001.pdf) Just wanted to share.
SPEAKERBOXXX
LONG LIVE WEEZY!
There are a lot of questionable things Lil’ Wayne has done in
his career so far – kissing his ‘father’ on the mouth, carrying
a guitar around without being able to play a note, inspiring
Kanye to record an entire album in Autotune – but you’ve
gotta give it up to anybody who can sell over two million CDs
and bag four Grammys while effed-up on cough syrup, trees
and pills.
Should Weezy croak in the next couple of months
though, the ridiculous hero worship that saw 2Pac elevated
to the level of rap deity will pale in comparison to the kind of
mass-hysteria which would sweep a Wayne-free world.
Biggie had no chance to fall off and poor Big L didn’t get time to
sell out. Imagine if Ice Cube had choked on his own vomit after
a case of St Ides following the release of ‘Death Certificate’?
He’d be in everyone’s ‘Top Five Dead Or Alive’!
So if Wayne happens to suffer a Pimp C-style syrup-related heart attack,
then the next five years will see Wayne Stans declaring him
the GOAT and releasing 38 volumes of ‘The Carter’ bootlegs.
But if young Wayne manages to stay above ground then it’s
only a matter of time before he alienates his fans by recording
15 experimental rock albums, plays himself in high-profile
TV interviews, and abandons music with the exception of
performing the title track to the latest family comedy he’s
starring in. Stay healthy, Weezy! Robbie Ettelson
Feel free to wiegh in on how great, horrible, or mediocre he is. He is most definitely a favored topic on this blog.
I also wanted to pass on word about some the music that I've been recently bumping.
- Mos Def, Ecstatic. To tell the truth I was "myah" about this album on the first couple of listens because I wanted an exact copy of Black on Both Sides A week later on the pick back up this is sounding like a long player. I can just let this play from track number 4 on. The first three, "myah."
- Dark Night of the Soul, DangerMouse and Sparklehorse. I've only listened through this a couple of times but I like. I especially liked the price of free ninety-nine online. I love Danger for that. You can check the story and find the cd elsewhere online if you ain't knowing.
- Infinity+1 & Down South Remixes, A Trak. I've been listening to these non-stop since my boy DJ Mammoth but me on to A Trak. He's beastly. He's also on a tour right now sponsored by Bacardi. These albums are so money on a run or at a dance party with people who hate Weezy.
Sidenote: Bicardi should be giving something back to hip hop after all the free advertising they've gotten through it. You member the "tipsy off Bicardi Limon's" in hop hop ("lie-mun" too, not "lee-moan"). Where you at Hennessy? Moet? When are your tours coming to a town near me?
Paz,
Slimster
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stay healthy, indeed. considering that i get mad enough at the constant "Biggie is the GOAT" bullshit, could you imagine the murderous rampage i would undertake if that started with minuscule wayne? i wish that rapping skills could translate into some form of tangible, measurable output so that we could end this outrageous talk once and for all. If rappers were boxers, wayne would be exposed for the no-talent ass-clown that he is. He would be the Butterbean of the rapper-boxers. he clobbers people with his wild haymakers, but he's ultimately just a freak-show. People love to watch not for any actual boxing skill, but rather for the gore and the spectacle.
Eminem is bruce seldon: hyped up but lacking any serious skills or any actual heart to pick up the skills. basically, a clown propped up as a contender. A true boxer would tear him apart, a la tyson out of prison.
Jay Z would be Michael Spinks: all hype and promotion without any actual tests. He got the crown because people wanted him to have it, not because he earned it or deserved it. he was propped up as the new heavyweight champion that would knock tyson from our collective consciousness. Wrong. He got exposed in grand fashion.
In this metaphor, tyson-in-his-prime would be played by Black Thought.
Seriously, if rap skills were boxing skills, who would fuck with Thought? sheeit, who would even step into the ring with that mutha fucka?
I could only imagine Adam's reaction to movie posthumously honoring Weezle by chronicling his meteoric rise from dirty south rap phenom to Greatest Rapper Alive.
I actually like Weezy in the same way that I like Eminem. It's nice to hear them on songs and their freestyles are sick but I never consider purchasing any of their music. I was through with Wayne after 500 Degrees and I stopped after Em's first.
Part of it is that I figure that I will hear it in the clubs or at the house of some person who is not as particular about their hip-hop.
Jay has also recently entered that category for me. I haven't checked for his last couple albums at all. However, I was a fan from Hard Knock life to Blueprint 2.
I would argue that Nas is the boxer who cast J Hova from the heavens. However, I have to admit that Thought is ultra nice but he does not get the spect that he deserves. I would say he's more of an all around champ who just refuses to go away and who never really got his due praise. Maybe Bernard Hopkins is more of an apt analogy.
i laughed a good loud belly laugh when i read that in that analogy that black thought would be tyson out of prison.
eminem did not mature at all mentally as if he has lyrical fetal alcohol syndrome. still lke him though.
wayne has progressed the mark of a true artist. he approaches rapping as his craft, and spends his life in the studio to come up with poignant societal commentataries such as "fly over your city and take a number two on ya" that was in reference to george bush's flyover of new orleans post katrina.
he is the best. carter 2 and 3 along with 60 % of his mixtape stuff is pure gold. church.
Slim: You're right about Thought being under-appreciated. I was comparing him to Tyson-in-his-prime as a way to measure his overall dopeness, not as a statement of his star power. If lyrical skills were boxing skills, he would beat fools' asses like a young iron mike. no one wanted to step to that dude, and no one wants any piece of Thought. That's why you don't see him guesting on other peoples' albums: they're scared that he'll make them look foolish on their own shit.
Ben: i can't believe you're sleeping on Thought's skills.
And for everyone's enjoyment, BRAND NEW ROOTS SHIT on Jimmy Fallon (From their upcoming album in October):
http://www.latenightwithjimmyfallon.com/video/clips/the-roots-62409/1130012/
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