Instant Favorite: Prom Queen - Lil' Wayne.

" Is this a troll blog? Seriously, I'm can guarantee that you haven't listened to enough rap to actually make an informed statement on the genre. You talk a big game about respecting other genres of music yet then proceed to label rap as a genre plagued by "mental disabilities."   Judging an entire genre of music based on the rodeo clowns who populate the cover of Vibe magazine is simply foolish, and while you're entitled to maintain your opinion, it is still ignorant nonetheless. It's no different from someone who decides to try metal, listens to Linkin Park and Disturbed, and then decides that all metal is just a bunch of whiny, pompous troglodytes hammering away at their instruments in an attempt to craft any noise bearing even the faintest resemblance to music.   In summation you, sir, are either trolling or simply oblivious to your own benighted state of mind.  "

At first, I thought he was joking. And then I started to cry.

  I'll post a few gems off the top of my head.

Auto-tune in a rock song is a bit jarring

This song is garbage from a usually solid MC

Well I'll admit it's better then every other lil wayne song I've heard, but still, it's not good.

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Lol Rebirth. that was a disaster. Only good song on it was the one with Eminem, and that was only good because of the Eminem verse.

I thought that sounded like rap, but with real instruments.

Someone liking mainstream music! Ha! Let me berate you while I listen to my lo-fi shoegaze twee pop ambient crust punk love core music on my non-ipod mp3 player!  
  
But for real:
I don't really care for the song, but I like the Les Paul he's sporting and it's niffty he's expanding his musical palette.  

  I'm not exactly sure if these'll change your mind, but here are a couple of rap songs that I love, one classic, one more contemporary. 

That is pretty bad. I gave it a chance, but had to stop halfway through. His voice just really annoys me, and the song is nonsensical.

" @Ahmad_Metallic: All your comments about pop music being so shitty and how you have no idea how anyone gets satisfaction from it and then you post this. Maybe you're just trolling I don't know but I had some respect for your love of Metal but this just seems to go against everything you've ever said on this website. "

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"  YOU CANT USE FUCKING AUTOTUNE IN A GOD DAMN METAL SONG LIL WAYNE YOU MORON.  "

As if lil wayne destroying one genre of music isn't enough.

I thought that Lil Wayne couldn't get any worse. Oh how I was wrong.

I think that song was just annoying. Maybe it's because I don't have an appreciation for metal.
 
But you know what they say; "If it ain't broke, don't fix it." Not sure why Lil Wayne would do something like this.

Whatever floats your boat, man, and I don't mean that in the douchey musician elitist undertone kind of way. Music is music and that's all there is to it, haha.

has it grown on anybody yet ?

..the lyrics are very accessible and moving

Lil Wayne is cancerous to good hip(hop, which is rap with good punchlines, great storytelling, metaphors and skills on the microphone, changing up flows, all of that he used to be a pretty average MC, but him and his young money label is actually "destroying" hip/hop.

Fuck you, Necromancers!

This is not the worst LIl' Wayne song I've ever heard. That title permanently belongs to "Phone Home" off Tha Carter III, which I posit as perhaps the worst song ever (strongest competitor being Why by the Plastic Ono Band, despite that song having a SICK bass line!) I'd never really considered myself a fan of any of his personal tracks, but I really liked him as a guest artist, especially on Let It Rock.

Then I heard How To Love off his new album and LOVED it. Highly anticipating a chance to pick up the new album, though critics who've gotten their hands on it aren't liking it very much.

I'm amazed that I made it a whole 51 seconds into that video. In a word: garbage. My condolences to those who think that Lil Wayne is talented.

I love hip-hop, but I just don't like the things Lil' Wayne has to rap about. He does come up with some great metaphors ('I eat that pussy like the last supper" Off Tech N9ne's "Fuck Food" comes to mind) but I feel they're overused and that his subject matter of choice (PARTY PARTY MONEY PARTY WEED HOES PARTY PARTY) is too shallow for my tastes. I will admit though, when I'm fucked up or in a good mood, We Be Steady Mobbin' is a fuckin sick song.

I was pretty much drawn to Rebirth for the same reason you were: the rock sound, and a sort of "How bad is it really?" curiosity. I didn't like anything I heard aside from Drop the World but I give the guy credit for at least trying something new rather than just doing the same thing over and over again. Maybe if he took it a little easier on the auto-tune and got an actual guitarist to support him it would have turned out better. Then again, maybe I don't know shit. The guy has incredible charisma and confidence in his flow, which somehow elevates him above the Wiz Khalifa's and Pitbull's of the world who can only do the same six rhymes about weed, popping bottles, and hoes. I think there is mainstream hip-hop out there far worse than Lil' Wayne. If he rapped about things more relevant to me then I'd most definitely be a fan, but everyone has their "thing" and I get that. It's not like he's Waka Flocka or Gucci Mane, banging out knuckle-draggers that rhyme "NIGGA" with "NIGGA" over and over again.

Anyways, good on you for exploring variety in your music. I appreciate lyricism in my hip-hop, but I can also appreciate a great club-banger as well. The key is not to get too jaded to the point where you can't even enjoy a song if it isn't loaded with symbolism and BS political jargon. Also, if you're looking for more artists with a great rap-rock sound, I implore you to check out Tech N9ne. Here's why:

Fuck you, Necromancers!

@hicks91: You sir know your Lil's

Also lil wayne sucks ass, and his Auto Tuned music sucks just as bad since almost every song has that shit. If you call that song rock or anything else on that album rock then you dont know shit about music. Dominant bass, HA!, Theres more base in Get Low and that is no rock. Time to learn about what rock is and what rap is.

I want to stick a knife inside my ears now. Sorry, its shit. But its not like my opinion matters anyhow, nor should it. Enjoy it if you like it.

@Ahmad_Metallic said:

..the lyrics are very accessible and moving

"I love the fancy underwear"

Lil' Wayne's wordplay is sick.  I don't even care that his subject matter is lacking.  I don't need every rapper to be some enlightened, socially-conscious lyricist. Sometimes you just want someone who can bust out a rapid-fire series of clever boasting and humorous metaphors over a heavy bass line.     
 
In fact, I was listening to "Roger That" earlier this morning.  Minaj + Wayne is a winning combo.

@CookieMonster said:

@Ahmad_Metallic said:

..the lyrics are very accessible and moving

"I love the fancy underwear"

This isn't Diablo 2. Don't be a necromancer.

Arrr shit. Honestly did not realise this was a year old.

@MariachiMacabre said:

Fuck you, Necromancers!

Yup. This was just as stupid as it was a year ago.

Hahahaha, someone necro'd THIS? 
 
I still love the song and think it's amazing, I still think Lil' Wayne is otherwise a tool, and I still don't like rap music :P

@Rawrnosaurous said:

@Little_Socrates: Which album? Sorry 4 the wait, The Carter IV, Welcome to my hood? I didn't find any of them terrible, but they aren't the Carter 3 that's for sure. I currently can't get enough of The Game, he is really doing great with his latest stuff.

I meant Tha Carter IV.

This shit is awful. He auto-tunes his voice through the whole fucking song? My god.

Rebirth is one of the worst albums I've ever listened to, and Prom Queen is laughably bad.

I truly love some of Lil Waynes work - Da Drought series, Dedication series, Carter 2 and 3, No Ceilings. All absolutely amazing. Rebirth - and Carter IV - are awful.

Why would you post this on a gaming forum? Come on man. That's almost as dumb as posting about a rap artist on a gaming forum.

Comfortable is pretty much the only thing of his that I have liked in the past five years.