watevermannnn wrote:Lollipop is cheesy, so is We made You, Just Lose It, Ass Like That, and Fack. All these artists dumb it down for singles.
Back in the day? Like Infinite? Infinite was amazing with the rhymes but it didn't say anything. It was just rhymes. Two year olds can rhyme.
In SSLP, MMLP, and TES, he rhymed perfect and shitted on American culture with his social commentary. Now when he says twisted shit about Kim Kardashian, no one gives a fuck. This dude is not relevant anymore. He's just saying fucked up shit just to get a rise from people, but it's not working. It's almost like Em doesn't even understand his own genius. He doesn't know why his work is so praised.
Yeah "We Made You" and "Just Lose It" and all that are cheesy but ironically. It's not like he was trying to be cool but came out corny. That's his zany shit. He's trying to be ridiculous so it's a bit odd to say it's genuinely cheesy when that's what it's spoofing.
He rarely dumbs it down much either. He dumbs down the substance of the song maybe but stays true to the art usually. I mean the rhyming in "We Made You" isn't made for the masses.
Difference with that and say "Lollipop" is, that track is made for the masses. It's pandering to a generic sub-type within a genre and Wayne is trying to be cool but coming off as cheesy. It's not a spoof but a failure. So they're very different things.
Well back in the day, just underground. Everything from "Infinite" to the SSEP. You say he didn't say anything just because he says that about it. But in reality, it's full of punchlines and a few personal thoughts. Pretty much the same as the next two albums. Except the next two are done much better and in much more original ways.
Yes he does need to get back to social commentary but he became a serial killer on Relapse. I don't give a fuck if he's saying anything substatial or witty about society, he was just creating violent fucked up shit as an excuse to rhyme well. As not much if anything allows you to push lyricism to such visual heights as does something as extreme as murder. Perfect topic to push boundries.
I'd also say the fact he had the biggest selling rap album of 2009, has been nominated for 3 Grammy's for it, slaughtered Drake, Kanye, Wayne - Three of the biggest mainstream rappers on a track and Lil Wayne on his own album track as well as having one of the most anticipated albums of 2010... Makes him VERY fucking relevant. Indeed.













Ems era was late 90's to about 2005
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