For Promotional Use Only / Not For Sale.ġ. Distributed by Universal Music & Video Distribution, Inc. Manufactured & Marketed by Universal Records, a Division of UMG Recordings, Inc. Recorded and mixed at Circle House Studios Wayne is a youngbuck, so here’s hoping that he will work on his writing and try to do something more compelling than just looking hard – and that he will work on that delivery too.The 1st single from the forthcoming album Lights Out (422 860 911-2/4) in stores 12.05.00 Rap and Juvenile so compelling is not only the way they deliver their lyrics but the stories they build into their raps – each line building up a mental image to a climax. What makes rappers like Scarface, Kool G. Wayne just seems to be happy with spitting “thug thoughts” with no coherency though – there are very few fully developed themes, and a whole lot of shit-talking. There are some really tight songs to bump in your car, like “Let’s Go” or “Act a Ass” or “Hit U Up” with the Hot Boys. And there’s nothing terribly wrong with the music here if you listen to it for the Mannie Fresh beats it can win on the strength. The whole problem here is that Wayne seems to be coasting – happy with the status he has right now, and probably able to sell 500K records just off the strength of being a Cash Money Millionaire and having videos showing on BET and MTV. While your grandma watchin Oprah, jag her up and rope her” Me and my nigga Super Sosa, run up in your crib I get the toaster and roll up and smoke most of y’all I pack them clips tight on them glocks and light up your blocksĪnd if there’s, coke involved then your throat’s involved “Henny and ice is what I prefer but light on the rocks I’m used to gangsta rap albums about selling coke smacking bitches and collecting money so it’s not the themes I object to here – it’s the uninspired way they are presented. Wayne is trying to be hard, not funny – and the whole problem is he is trying too hard to BE hard. As I said before he does occasionally have clever punchlines: in “Tha Blues” he says, “Everybody freeze and drop when Lil Wheezy cop, and niggaz be like Q-Tip cause they +Breathe and Stop+.” Somehow it’s not HA HA HA laughing out loud funny though, like listening to Chino XL, Ras Kass, or Eyedea spit verbal fire. There are rappers who make a monotone work well by the power of their lyrics (see Guru or Prodigy) but Wayne is no Elmore Leanord or Donald Goines. He’s like a seagull skimming the surface for fish, only occasionally breaking below or above the waves. When his labelmate Juvenile says something simple like “Well I’ll be damned!” his chords jump up or down an octave in expressiveness to make it catch fire in your ear, but Wayne has a mostly monotone musical mark that he sticks to. ![]() I’m sorry to say it’s just not compelling. Once you already know Wayne’s voice from his past songs or cameos though, the novelty starts to wear off. Wayne certainly understands the cliches of gangsta rap too, as he spits lyrical bullets that would “knock Lennox out” on songs like “Realized.” Wayne is capable of being amusing now and then with punchlines like “Wheezy go to war, like Sadaam and Clinton disagree” on the lead single “Get Off the Corner.” Wayne can also occasionally strike a touching note emotionally as he does on “Everything” a song that’s dedicated to his dad. All that’s left for him is to strike while the iron is hot and capitalize on it. ![]() This is his second LP – a followup to his hit “Tha Block is Hot.” As such Wayne is sitting in the catbird’s seat right now: the right clique, the right producer, and he’s got a string of cameo appearances both on and off Cash Money Records that have made his name really hot in rap. Just to be clear on this, he may be “Lil” but he’s not a new jack. Typically for a Cash Money Records release, uber-producer Mannie Fresh is in charge for 99.9% of the album’s beats giving it that distinctly “Bling Bling” sound that has kept their songs ringing from car speakers and club walls for the past year and more. Wayne does not roll with a typical clique though – he’s a member of the internationally famous “Hot Boys” rap group on Cash Money Records a family that includes rap superstars like B.G., Juvenile, and Young Turk. Wayne’s bio reads like a typical gangster rapper – born in the 17th Ward community of Hollygrove (New Orleans), a decaying and bullet riddled urban nightmare in his own words. And Lil Wayne’s about to tell you why you should get off it. Ya smell me? People feel Lil Wayne is so hot that he’s “off the hook” like a receiver left dangling on it’s cord at the pay phone on the corner. The folks like to call him Lil Wheezy, and his fans say that he’s off the heezy.
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