AKittka

He might not be the best rapper alive, but I think he's one of the best alive. The fact that he arrogantly thinks he's the best alive makes him better, IMO.

I don't think he's a sell out or mainstream. I agree that his voice is kind of annoying, but after you listen to him for a while you start to get used it and recognize it as something unique.

He's respected, original, and has numerous albums and mixtapes out (Drought 3 is a personal favorite). I also think the Carter III is really good, especially the first 4 songs. Even the bonus tracks are good. i can't stop listening to 'I'm Me'.

What do you guys think?!

vishnucmouli

I concur

10 chara

mymo91

Lil Wayne is a technically proficient rapper, but his music is completely lacking in any content. His beats aren't even good. I can't believe he has the audacity to tell millions of people he thinks he is a better musician than nas, and I'm sick of trying to argue with drunken white people who suck on his nuts like corn on the cob.

War Chant

He started out hustlin', ended up ballin'.

MetdethGNR

Huh. I don't know Lil' Wayne.

tomatoking

He's a joke. ALL of his raps are made up of 100% similes. "I'm as good as ______. I'm just like_______, but you're like _____." He's trash; he doesn't say anything.

Mike41691

Absolutely not.

HiWei

I agree with mymo91 and tomatoking. I listened to like the first 30 seconds of Lollipop and had to turn it off. The song is just that annoying. His songs, and most others by popular rappers don't speak at all about anything except for making ridiculous amounts of money, buying the ridiculous, and sex.

If that's what rap is, then is Lil' Wayne is "the best," but otherwise I'll have to stick to my old classics, thanks.

imrightuarewrong

Have you ever heard this guy talk? He can barely put together a coherent sentence, so my answer would be no he is not.

i_wanna_be_Brown

music does not have to have meaningful message. If Lil Wayne wants to call himself a venereal disease like a menstrual bleed or tell us that he'd rather be pushin up flowers than to be in the pen sharin showers then let him. One of the best alive? I don't know about that. He does have like 5 hit singles out right now which is really impressive though, so he's defnitely ill.

diesel

tha carter iii went platinum in one week...
...money, money, money MOB

goblue10nis

This is a good summary of Lil Wayne's music: YouTube - Weezy's New Mixtape (Best Rapper Alive) coming this fall!

The 3rd World, The Cool>>>Tha Carter 3

AKittka

whether you think rap is good music is another argument. but in the context of rap, i think he's one of the best alive. not the best ever. and one of the best alive. i think nas and eminem are better. lil wayne is original in that he's the only rapper who arrogantly raps about himself being the best. he's with cash money records.. not that bad boy sell out... stuff. he's respected. he respects other rappers. refers to TIP as the "King". gives T-Pain credit in "Got Money". And how can you not love is comical chuckle! AHA .. When it's Lil Wayne ft. Jay-Z that's when you know the times have changed. "the hottest hottest... under the sun."

TIMES
"Whether Wayne is, as he claims, the "best rapper alive" is no longer even debated in hip-hop or commercial circles. Since June 10, when his latest album, Tha Carter III, sold 1,005,545 copies in its first week, he's been the undisputed champ."
- He also leaked the album himself.
- First sentence is just stupid though.

"Vibe magazine counted 77 new Lil Wayne tracks in 2007."
- what?!

"Wayne isn't afraid to sound bizarre. On Phone Home, he rhymes like E.T., and throughout, he stammers, intentionally misses beats and defies most of the rules of contemporary rap."

go buy the Carter III and listen to da drought 3 too.

"get on my level you cant get on my level
you would need a spaceshuttle or a ladder thats forever
however im better if not now than never"

"I control hip hop and ima keep it on my channel
Watch me!"

is lyrics are unmatched right now.

3 Peat!

Innocent_Thought

"The fact that he arrogantly thinks he's the best alive makes him better, IMO."

Get out

Nas, Jedi Mind Tricks, Rakim, Wu Tang, Hieroglyphics, Cunninlynguists all superior.

Mike41691

I met this girl, when I was ten years old
And what I loved most she had so much soul
She was old school, when I was just a shorty
Never knew throughout my life she would be there for me
on the regular, not a church girl she was secular
Not about the money, no studs was mic checkin her
But I respected her, she hit me in the heart
A few New York ******, had did her in the park
But she was there for me, and I was there for her
Pull out a chair for her, turn on the air for her
and just cool out, cool out and listen to her
Sittin on a bone, wishin that I could do her
Eventually if it was meant to be, then it would be
because we related, physically and mentally
And she was fun then, I'd be geeked when she'd come around
Slim was fresh yo, when she was underground
Original, pure untampered and down sister
Boy I tell ya, I miss her

Now periodically I would see
ol girl at the clubs, and at the house parties
She didn't have a body but she started gettin thick quick
DId a couple of videos and became afrocentric
Out goes the weave, in goes the braids beads medallions
She was on that tip about, stoppin the violence
About my people she was teachin me
By not preachin to me but speakin to me
in a method that was leisurely, so easily I approached
She dug my rap, that's how we got close
But then she broke to the West coast, and that was cool
Cause around the same time, I went away to school
And I'm a man of expandin, so why should I stand in her way
She probably get her money in L.A.
And she did stud, she got big pub but what was foul
She said that the pro-black, was goin out of style
She said, afrocentricity, was of the past
So she got into R&B hip-house bass and jazz
Now black music is black music and it's all good
I wasn't salty, she was with the boys in the hood
Cause that was good for her, she was becomin well rounded
I thought it was dope how she was on that freestyle ****
Just havin fun, not worried about anyone
And you could tell, by how her titties hung

I might've failed to mention that this chick was creative
But once the man got you well he altered her native
Told her if she got an image and a gimmick
that she could make money, and she did it like a dummy
Now I see her in commercials, she's universal
She used to only swing it with the inner-city circle
Now she be in the burbs lickin rock and dressin hip
And on some dumb ****, when she comes to the city
Talkin about poppin glocks servin rocks and hittin switches
Now she's a gangsta rollin with gangsta *****es
Always smokin blunts and gettin drunk
Tellin me sad stories, now she only ****s with the funk
Stressin how hardcore and real she is
She was really the realest, before she got into showbiz
I did her, not just to say that I did it
But I'm committed, but so many****** hit it
That she's just not the same lettin all these groupies do her
I see ****** slammin her, and takin her to the sewer
But I'ma take her back hopin that the **** stop
Cause who I'm talkin bout y'all is hip-hop

I Used to love H.E.R. -Common

So true.