The Fire: Long Hair, Don't Care -- Lil Wayne Is The Best Rapper Alive
Published: Monday - April 2, 2007
Words by WWW Dot
Lil Wayne Is The Best Rapper RIGHT NOW
Yes, it's your boy WWW-dot because I have a Way With Words, period and hell nah...no typo there. I repeat -- Lil Wayne Is The Best Rapper RIGHT NOW, excluding nobody...man, look what he embodies.
...While you're at it, look at the rappers, he's bodying.
Complex had Weezy calling himself the best, but they never went ahead and agreed. Well, I am agreeing.
Lil Wayne is the ruler of hip-hop's western hemisphere. (Weezy) F that...the world.
Before you think I'm smoking that LaLaLa, let me explain.
When ever the topic or debate (is more like it) of the best MC comes up, we're quick to look back at their catalog and see what that particular artist has done in the game. Well, I ain't doing that shit any more. See, since time doesn't go back...those are memories. What about what they're doing right now!? This is a hungry game, a hungry sport. And when it comes to that, one Weezy F. Baby is killing y'all right now. He has been having a loaded gun to these rapper's mouths and he's squeezing...
I mean, if you're an MC in the game right now, are you even trying to catch up to dude!? He's soo ahead of y'all right now. I mean, daaaamn. He's the Kobe Bryant of rap. He's ripping you rappers' hearts out, while they're still beating. Worst of all is the fact that he's telling y'all about it, while he's doing it:
"I'm a New Orleans gangster after the storm / Boy, it took about $3 million to rebuild my home / But...I'm back on defense, back in my zone / I eat rappers and go in my yard and bury their bones / Huh...My pockets all Raven Symone / That's FAT, what y'all know about that?"
Need more evidence of him telling you so? Ok, here goes:
"I am the beast / Feed me rappers or feed me beats / I'm untamed, I need a leash / I am insane, I need a shrink / I love brain, I need a leech."
And you know the SWAGGER on a scale of 1-10, stays on a 110 at all times:
"And my wrist special par but the mule is cooler / I have more jewels than your jeweler."
And he's telling you that he's in the zone. He's challenging someone to stop him!
"I'm In My Zone / My form is So Rare Man / If there's a throne, you're looking at a chairman / How You Want It / Show Me My Opponent....Show Me My Opponent."
So, who's stepping up to the plate? Looks like nobody and quick. Jay and Nas are comfortable. That leaves the young guns. As popular as guys like Game and T.I. are, they can't keep up with Wayne. The dude just records too much.
Listen, we all know what dudes like Rakim, Jay-Z and Nas have done in the game. Their work speaks for itself. Each one of the aforementioned artists possess the traits necessary to be among the best ever. But in this moment in time, Lil Wayne stands miles apart from his competition. No one is close. I respect Kanye for calling dude the best right now because hey, it is what it is.
Dude takes chances. All y'all MCs stick to that formula. (Although he was on Hov's johnson for a minute), Wayne has no formula. Case in point, dude will go from spitting French, reggae and straight hip-hop on one song! That's having no formula. He takes chances and that's why he's the best. Same goes for R. Kelly in R&B. No singer is taking chances with their music like him. Nobody in the business says whatever the fuck they want with as much conviction as Kelly and Wayne...
With Wayne, it's really not about what he says, in terms of significance because quite frankly a lot of caca spews from dude's mouth. With Wayne though, it's how he says EVERYTHING...and with heavy SWAGGER.
The way he drags out words and pronounces others are unparallel:
"I push that Masssserati to the limitttt / Six seconds through that traffic like Emmitttt."
Most importantly, when judging who's best, a trait to consider is buzzworthy level. In the last year alone and this one so far, I can't think of another MC, whose lines we have been talking about more than Lil Wayne's. And with lines like these, we'll continue talking about him:
"We can get it poppin' / Like a mac-ten / Brrrr-Dat Dat Dat on your back back back / I smack smack smack that / And I'm strapped with an automatic tongue / And it goes Brrrr-At-Dat Dat Dat"
Man, oh man...y'all better play catch up! Do something out there. It's getting ugly. Weezy is running away with your game. He got it on lock. Who can stop him?
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