Yes, Lil' Wayne was that indecipherable 15-year-old "drop it like it's hot" ankle-biter in the "Back That Azz Up" video. Yes, Lil' Wayne has the Internet swinging from his nuts like scabies in an Edgar Rice Borroughs novel. Yes, Lil' Wayne has multiple face tattoos, which, unless you've killed someone, only belong on drunk, Carhartt-wearing crust-punks (or, if it's a butterfly, on the Game). And yes, Lil' Wayne looks like the alien from "Predator" crossed with the cop from "Predator 2." Believe me, I'm the last person who'd back a dude with all these minuses on their scorecard. Or an overhyped Miami "DJ" who barely produces the tracks on his album and could possibly be in league with someone as douchey as Scott Storch.
Yet Weezy's verse on DJ Khaled's inescapable "We Takin' Over" proves Joe entirely wrong, as it's hotter than anything he's ever listened to, pretended to understand via suburban co-opting of urban culture, or ponderously ruminated upon in any number of online diatribes. To wit, four minutes and seventeen seconds into the video:
Build-up, climax, resolution. It's like fucking, or a Star Wars novel, but somehow cooler. Quota era demonstrata. Maybe not the best rapper alive in terms of skill, or clever punchlines, or whatever else pencil-pushing backpackers look for in hip-hop, but trying to say that Lil' Wayne isn't the hottest, most charismatic mainstream MC alive. . . well, I'll knock you in your medulla.
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