well i have to say that even though tons of people (haters???) dislike him, lil wayne really is pretty excellent in my book. i really like his style/phrasing/whatever when he's rapping. even though his lyrics are by no means impressive, the majority of his songs are pretty fun to just chill out with and listen to. the carter III was good i thought, but some of the tracks on it were kinda weak. lollipop and ms. officer were solid, however; mrs. officer was particularly good in my opinion because it featured bobby valentino, whose vocals in the background and chorus were a nice touch on the song. i also enjoyed the following album, we are young money. there were no songs on that particular album that really stood out to me as awesome, but i enjoyed the album as a whole. at least for me, it's more important that an album is solid overall as opposed to having like on awesome song but the rest of it is shit. i am not a human being was a WONDERFUL album, chock full of guest appearences from some very talented rappers (namely fellow young money nerds like nicki minaj and drake). i especially enjoyed ianahb because lil wayne sounded even higher on half of the album's songs -- which is pretty tough to accomplish -- than he usually does!
to me, lyrics are pretty important to songs. without lyrics, you're basically listening to a bunch of totally random beats. while that's fine when you're listening to stuff such as 65daysofstatic, good lyrics really make a song in my book. for that reason, i'm a big fan of nas. oh holy shit, stillmatic was SUCH a good album, probably one of the best of the decade! i dunno, nas is such a fucking genius but for some reason people would rather listen to lackluster rappers like drake and friends. however, nas is still reasonably well-known, and even though none of his albums after stillmatic were as good, they were still great listens. seriously people, next time you hear a nas song, just focus on the lyrics. some of the lyrics are so cool and unique, and they usually comment on a certain issue (such as government, religion, etc). even when nas isn't blatantly spitting out his opinion on whatever, his wordplay is so wonderful that you really can't help but chuckle when you hear his songs.
don't really have time to be as lengthly here, but nicki minaj is pretty awesome in my opinion. even though shes literally insane and is 50% plastic due to all her surgeries, she's still an awesome lyricist and rapper. ummmm kanye west is chill too, some of his songs are kinda annoying because they try way to hard to sound all gangsta-tough and shit, but some of them -- especially golddigger -- are legitimately awesome! eminem is amazing as well, though i'm not obsessed with him like a majority of my friends are. i dunno, i guess for eminem i find some of his songs to be just incredible, but others to be somewhat dull. for example, love the way you lie was fucking BRILLIANT (though rihanna's vocals were somewhat weak), but i thought not afraid was only decent.
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