@dccomicsrule2011 said:
If you honestly read the book, instead of speaking out of ignorance, you would know wouldn't you?
How could I speak from a place of anything else but ignorance if I haven't read the book? I'm not making any statements about what's in it or even about the author, but because I haven't read it and you're using it as some sort of validation all I suggested is that the author's assessment of Lil Wayne could be invalid or biased. How would I know? I didn't read it. I was just making the statement that as a human being just because you have a title it doesn't take away your ability to be both wrong or biased.
For me? it isn't. As I said before, those were easily off the top of my head.
"The young heart attack, I spit that cardiac"
Is this line above is supposed to be an example of one of Wayne's "good lines"? If so do you not see how that's a very basic punchline? Making the obvious connection between heart attack and cardiac as in relating to the heart? What impressive about this? There's nothing underlying and it's easily understood. Wayne has ALOT of lines that are just like this, where he's making obvious ABC connections between words and they happen alot more often than they don't. He will literally write songs full of them, example (6 foot 7 foot): "swagger down pat call my shit patricia", "two bitches at the same time\synchonized swimmers", "black and white diamonds, f_ck segragation", "Young Money running sh_t and ya'll niggas, runner ups". "I lost my mind, it's somewhere out there stranded", "I beat the beat-up, call that self-defense", "swear man I be seeing through these n_ggas like sequins", "these maf_ckas talking crazy like their jaw broke", "the fruits of my labor, I enjoy'em while they're still ripe", "bitch real g's move in silence like lasagna" "Money too strong, pockets on bodybuilder". Many of the lines that I didn't put here simply aren't punchlines. There are a few impressive lines like "Got the Girl Open cause she's open when you twist her" where he's making a connection between getting high (twisted), something like a bottle being opened by twisting the top off and the girl being open as in getting her high because he's more likely to smash that way (open) & "I think you stand under me if you don't understand me" where he's drawing a parallel between your intelligence and his but also making a play on the word understand but if you actually look at the lyrics of this song his two verses are more filled with those basic ABC punches than ones that offer a more explanation to be understood and you can pretty much do this for alot of his songs, I believe. A few good lines with alot of throwaways.
The way Wayne strings together his rhymes are not simple, as they DO pack substance. "I'm a Young Money MILLIONair tougher than NIGERIAN hair" is not simply put together. I can bring up literally thousand of others diplyas of Wayne using impressive lines like that and even times when he has rhymed 4 words of a line with four words in the next.
Come on now. It's an impressive display of lyrical skills.
This is the basics of understanding how a metaphor works. Millionaire is only there to rhyme with hair and he's only saying that he's tough and using something known to be tough to reinforce it, what's impressive about that?
Because it doesn't actually prove anything. You're just throwing out a statement without actually proving why Lil Wayne's rhymes lack substance. Using the failure of random battle rappers proves nothing in regards to Wayne's usage of multi's.
It's not specifically about Wayne but it proves they can be used wrong. There's levels when it comes this style the same way it is when we're talking about punchlines, there are simple multisyllable filler lines and there are simple punchlines.
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