“Pockets gettin' too fat / No Weight Watchers, no lipo / Money talks, bullshit walks / On a motherfucking tightrope” If there was a turning point in Wayne’s rhyme structure, and the way he attacked beats, it began on Carter II, and with this song.Ģ1. “The heart of New Orleans / Thumping and beating / Living and breathing / Stealing and feeding / Peeling and leaving / Killing and grieving” “Real shit I'm ducking bombs from a drug war / No religion but the cops swear that I'm a drug lord”Īt the opening of Wayne’s Carter series, where he began to grow out of his youthful trappings and demanded to be taken seriously as an MC.Ģ2. “Every night's a long night, every day's a holiday / I don't fuck with squares, now do that mean I'm out of shape?”Ī highlight on a song that is, unfortunately, not a lot about Bill Gates.Ģ3. “My ceiling’s absent, my wheels are massive, my friends assassins / All of us bastards, our mothers queens and our women dancers / My rivers rapid, my fins are splashin’, my gills are flappin’ / I bit some matches, then sipped some gas and went, kiss the dragon”Ĭollegrove presented a fascinating project where – a bit after he had been perhaps written off by some of his skeptics and critics – Wayne gave one of his great lyrical performances in years, and did it largely under the radar.Ģ4. “Lights Off” is peak era-one Wayne, at his best.Ģ8. “That boy got a head on his shoulders / I’ll knock it off”Ī great thing about teenage Wayne verses were how defiant they were, and how hungry he consistently sounded.
Playing on homonyms is a big part of what Wayne thrived off of, and here, he does it well.Ģ9. “I am a vegetarian man I only eat beets / wear a lot of carats and I smoke the best green” He never mentioned if he heard his name dropped on this verse.ģ0. He announced his retirement in December 2013, and officially stepped down in May of 2014 after 40 years in office. Shoutout to Frank Minyard who – at the time of this verse – actually was the Coroner in New Orleans. “New Orleans coroner, his name is Frank Minyard / Fuck with me wrong, you’ll be waking up in his yard” “Shake the whole game / Like the hit-stick, nigga”Ī warm memory for those of us who came of age during the earliest version(s) of the Playstation 2 DualShock controller.ģ1. “Didn't wear a bulletproof / So I got shot and you can see the proof / Blind eyes could look at me and see the truth /Wonder if Stevie do?”įrom a small handful of Wayne and JAY Z collaborations, Wayne proves that he is not a Stevie Wonder conspiracy theorist (or is he?)ģ2. Though not the most appealing way to spend one’s day – depending on what the night before consisted of – Wayne gets points for the imagery here.ģ3. “Big house / long hallways / got 10 bathrooms, I can shit all day”
Only a real one can drop a Mortal Kombat reference out of nowhere and pull it off.ģ4. "Feet hanging out the window jock my shoe game / Cause all my kicks fly like Liu Kang" As he is now cemented as a rap veteran, and embroiled in a seemingly endless label dispute over his much-anticipated Carter V album-still without a window for release-it seems a fitting time to honor the 35 best Lil Wayne lines.ģ5. His verses hold up, in part because he focused so heavily on delivering rapid-fire punchlines in his rhymes, in a manner that has inspired rappers after him: 2 Chainz, Big Sean, and Drake, to name a few. His first verses came when he was just 11 years old, coming on the collaborative album True Story with B.G.įrom there, Wayne has become one of the most successful and critically acclaimed rappers of his era, specifically hanging an extremely dominant run on the late 00s and early 2010s. Wayne is only approaching age 35-celebrating his birthday today-but has been rapping since he was literally a child. If it seems like Lil Wayne has been around forever, it is because for an entire generation, he has been.
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