More on why Lil' Wayne Sucks

I said I would get back to the discussion on why Lil' Wayne sucks, I thought it would be even better if I told you how much he sucked, by comparing him to 50 Cent. This is quite a controversial issue, one that I have a very strong opinion on, and I won't hesitate to show blind Lil' Wayne fanboys raw facts that prove my point without question. This won't be a little kiddie comparison, I'll try and delve into very deep issues, if you Lil Wayne fans ever find yourself a little too overwhelmed by the issues being discussed, its okay, that's well expected. But enough with the chitter chat okay, lets get started with why we're all here.

Its quite well known that 50 Cent loves to start feuds with people that he thinks are beneath him, he stated that "he has nothing better to do." "Why not break his [Wayne's] neck?" Lil Wayne seemed to be a little scared when replying to this, stating that he didn't any problems, he just likes writing music for a wide population of people. So what does that mean? I don't understand how this is at all replying to 50 Cent's comment...

Lil Wayne just seems like an interesting fellow at times. He makes all of these wild claims in his songs, stating that he would go as far as to stand in the very balcony that MLK Jr. was assassinated and he would remain unscathed, this really pissed off a lot of people. He was so happy because his POS album "Tha Carter 3" or whatever was one of the top selling albums of the year. Well guess what, "Get Rich or Die Tryin" was the number one album of its year as well. Lil Wayne's single, "A Millie" is somewhat reminiscent to 50 Cent's single, "In Da Club." Not in the musical sense, but in the hype sense. "In Da Club" was the number one song in the United States for a very long time, actually a lot longer than "A Mille," or any other single that was featured on Lil Weezy's album.

Another thing about Lil' Wayne that really pisses off a lot of people, something that most people don't even realise is his lack of creativity. lets start with his album covers, if one more person thinks that the cover of "The Carter 3" is original, or creative, I may start killing little kittens just out of sheer frustration.


Lil Wayne's The Carter III


Nas's Illmatic


Biggie Smalls' Ready to Die

Look familiar? The latter two were released in 1994, Lil Wayne's album was released in 2008. Creativity? Please....

Goodfellas

I meant to talk about this movie a long time ago, but I kinda got carried away from discussing movies and started talking about other things. But I feel that I haven't done this movie justice by not talking about it; its second only to The Godfather, IMO, and to a lot of other people. Provided here is a short, but detailed summary of the movie, if you haven't seen it, beware, it contains a lot of spoilers.

Goodfellas is a Martin Scorsese directed movie starring: Robert De Niro, Ray Liotta, Joe Pesci, and Paul Sorvino. This movie is also based on a true story, so this combination set a very high scale for this movie, there was a lot of expectation set on this movie, and it utterly destroyed everything in its path when it came out.

The movie is narrated by Henry Hill (Ray Liotta) who starts out as a little kid and explains his early days as a poor, Irish- Italian American mix who used to aspire to be a gangster like all of the tough guys that lived across the street from him. He would stare out of the window all day and watch as they would flaunt their fancy suits, puffing on thick cigars getting whatever they wanted by merely sending someone for it. Their leader, or Don, was Paul "Paulie" Cicero (Paul Sorvino). He was a big, slow man, rarely moved or spoke, but that was because he really didn't need to. Just one glance would be enough to make the toughest gangsters jump into their cars and race off. He ran the show in the whole city, and everyone knew it. After begging his parents to work for the gangsters after school to earn some money, he got entranced by their way of life and eventually dropped out of school and worked full time, earning reputation on the streets for his association with the "wise guys" as they were called.

He then met his would- be lifelong partner, Jimmy Conway (De Niro), who was a ruthless gangster who would tip the bartender hundreds of dollars for "keeping the ice cubes cold"; he was rich as hell. He was a beast, no one messed with him, the stereotypical gangster. Jimmy introduced Henry to Tommy DeVito (Joe Pesci), who was of similar age, only much more boisterous and eager to do anything it took to get a few dollars, he was also a shoe- shiner.

Below this post, is a more detailed description of the movie, walking you through the entire thing, although I urge you to watch it if you haven't already.

Goodfellas Cont....

The movie then moves about ten years later, where Henry, Jimmy, and Tommy are three infamous gangsters who rob and steal at their will, never work, yet live really rich comfortable lives. If they got short on money, they would simply rob an airport, or steal a semi- truck and sell it for big bucks. They really enjoyed the lifestyle they were leading; it seemed as if nothing could go wrong. Henry met a nice woman, settled down, and introduced her to his shenanigans. Eventually though, she realized that he was having many affairs with multiple women, and she attempted to kill him. He coaxed her into putting the gun down gently, then proceeded to threaten to hill HER. Telling her that he dealt with enough in the streets, and that he didn't want to come home to death threats from his wife. He storms out of the house and lives with one of his... mistresses for a while, until Paulie and Jimmy try and talk some sense into him, saying this isn't how a true man lives (even though these men were heartless "me myself and I" people, they still had some decency left in them). Paulie tells Henry he needs to take a few days off and he should head down to Florida with Jimmy to take care of small business for him.

He goes to Florida with Jimmy, but ends up getting caught, or "pinched" for his actions and he and Jimmy are sentenced to ten years in a federal penitentiary, and Paulie is also sentenced to one year. But jail life for wise guys is something else, they had their own suite, ate whatever they wanted, and had no supervision whatsoever. This is also where Henry got into the drug dealing scene. While in jail, the only way he could make money was through selling pills to other inmates, but he was able to make enough to get by.

After he was released from jail, he is warned by a wary and wise Paulie that dealing drugs is a dirty business and he is likely to get caught, and take Paulie down with him. He makes Henry swear that he will have nothing to do with drugs at all, a promise which Henry is quick to break. Rising to the top of the cocaine dealing scene, Henry brings in Jimmy and Tommy to help him in his work; hiring many people to do various jobs for them, escorting the drugs back and forth, actually making the cocaine itself, without paying attention to who these people might be or how reliable they were.

The next big issue that happened was the notorious Lufthansa Heist, the biggest robbery ever committed on US soil. After lots of staging and planning, they went through and stole around six million dollars in cash from the John F. Kennedy airport. After this extravagant act, they were forced to lie low for a while, unable to spend any money because of how tight investigations were on various mobsters. But eventually things started to cool down, and little by little they were starting to enjoy all of their new found wealth. A little while later, Tommy was given the news that he was going to be "made," or that he was going to be allowed to join one of the five mafia families of the United States, little did he know that it was just a setup in order to get revenge on a previous murder he had committed, and he was shot through the head and killed.

After Tommy was gone, Jimmy and Henry got a lot closer together, and started to get a lot more paranoid, but little did either of them know that Henry was under some serious surveillance by "narcs" or narcotics police. As they were attempting to ship off their final stash of crack, Henry was caught and put under arrest.

Henry would later turn states evidence, and give the FBI information regarding Paulie and Jimmy, and he was put under the witness protection program, given a new name and moved to a new location far from his old one, along with his wife and kids. Paulie and Jimmy were both sentenced long terms in prison, where they both would die. The movie ends with Henry explaining how its all over, how his life as a Wise Guy had come to an end, how he had to live now like the average Joe, waiting in lines, having a low end job, etc. The movie ends with Henry walking out of his front door and picking up a newspaper off of his doorstep, looking up, and waving at the camera.


From left to right: Henry, Jimmy, Paulie, Tommy.

Why Lil' Wayne SUCKS

Now, most people stopped reading when they read the title. Which is almost exactly my point, which I will discuss later on. I would go as far as to say, most people, if not all, blindly love Lil' Wayne and listen to his music because other people do, and refuse to allow their minds to be opened up to any other artist, let alone another genre of music. They also like him because his lyrics sound "badass", he's "real", and the one that always gets me, he's "deep." No. Lil Wayne is a prime example of someone who's famous for beeing famous. I have talked to way too many people about rap, and the conversations are usually as follows:
Me: Have you heard song X before?
Stupid Lil' Wayne fan with low IQ: Yeah man, Lil Weezy killed that $#!*
Me: Um, he wasn't even in that song...
Stupid Lil' Wayne fan with low IQ: Um... uh... um...
Stupid Lil' Wayne fan with low IQ's friend: Wow you're stupid, didn't you watch the new remix on Youtube? Weezy was dope as hell man, mad sick flows!!!11!11one!!!eleven!!
Me: Um, you mean that random video that you made by taking random mixtape verses from various artists and meshing them together with a stupid, repetitive beat playing in the background that doesn't go at all with the song? Oh, and I hope you didn't forget the random no name monkey in the background saying things like "Ooooo" and "baby let me take you to the club in my fancy two seat s$*@" using that DISGUSTING, ASININE, PIECE OF GARBAGE known as the "vocoder" or that thing that makes your voice sound like a robotic monkey.
Stupid Lil' Wayne fan with low IQ: Man, you stupid... you probably listen to that mainstream 50 Cent garbage "I take you to the candy shop, hahaha that's soooooo STUPID!!"
Me: No, I don't listen to mainstream rap you unintelligent, hypocritical waste of air. I bet you thought the song "Lollipop" was hardcore. Please... I have a sophisticated taste in rap, I only like the stuff from the ninety's.
Stupid Lil' Wayne fan with low IQ: Man, shut up, I'm done talking... you hurted me feelings :(


TO BE CONTINUED...

The Period Between Thanksgiving and Winter Breaks

Why? Why are we forced to come to school in this chunk of time between Thanksgiving and Winter breaks. I mean no one wants to do anything. Students, teachers, janitors, even the superintendent, who just chooses to sleep all day and not notice the impeding snow storms that end up reducing my lifespan at the stress of having to drive to school alongside moronic drivers on slippery weather who panic at the first sign of someone getting within 1oo feet of them and do stupid things that end up in videos like the one a few posts below this one.

Productivity is just so low, and not without reason. Its asinine to expect people to be at all interested in work, or school when their mind is on a million other things. Now I understand that this is just way too much time to be not working or learning, so, being the reasonable man that I am, I have made the ultimate compromise: Half- Days every day. With Fridays off. Okay that last part was a gift for me. And make Mondays end at the regular time, but start later. Thereby allowing much needed time for people to get rid of the "case of the Mondays" that chooses to remain in the gene pool and is horribly contagious. One yawn, one gloomy look on someone's face, one shadow under someone's eye, and eventually the entire class, office, McDonald's branch, hospital, whatever, will be diseased with a case of the Mondays. That won't happen if we all have a few more hours of sleep. You'd be surprised how much better people function during the week if they start out with a good Monday, which rarely happens.

Also, why, WHY, are they making us have to come back to school on Monday and Tuesday of next week. Its like kicking a dog, and after its down, beat it with a large stick, and then after that, giving it a giant middle finger.

And finally, I leave you with this:

Look familiar?
This Polar Bear is:
A) Going to work on Monday
B) All of the above

I Feel Like A Wrung Sponge

Yeah, you heard right. I had a few topics that I could blog about for the last two weeks or so, but now I'm fresh out of ideas. So... Lets see what I can pull off here.

Damn, this isn't working. How about I write about... oh I know, Bush getting two shoes thrown at him from across the room!!!



I am trying to suppress my epic LOLs that would be heard across the world, if it were not for the fact that across the world everyone Else's epic LOLs would drown mine out. My only question is, what happens to the journalist now? I mean, what power on this earth can save him from this act? I heard that there were hundreds of lawyers that said they would fight for this "hero" at no charge, but, will that be enough?

Now, I don't really want to say I wasn't entertained by this, because I'd be lying, but I do want to make it clear that I'm not okay with someone being blatantly disrespected in public like that. Even if he is a land and money hungry monger who has no more appreciation in this country than Flava Flav had in his heyday. But I just want to get something clear, the act of throwing a shoe at someone really means a lot in the Arab world. Its one of the most disrespectful things you can do to a man, and its one of those things that you can't really take back. You can't be like, "Oh we're cool now, right?" That was serious business, and that journalist knew exactly what he was getting himself into. But this act has a lot symbolism behind it, it shows that Bush really didn't have respect from the people in the Middle East, he didn't really do any of the things he claimed he did, he said something along the lines of, "I know the rest of the Iraqi people are not like this" or something like that, WRONG. WRONG WRONG WRONG. There might be a very, very, very minute, minuscule population of Iraqis that for whatever reason supported Bush, but the extremely overwhelming majority would have gladly taken that journalist's spot. Who is now being referred to as a "hero" and a "martyr." The latter mainly due to the fact that people think this man really isn't going to walk away from this, let alone unscathed.

Well, not bad for a wrung sponge eh?

Biggie's Legacy

Biggie's untimely death did not at all stop his supreme reign over the rap game. He is celebrated as one of the best MCs of all time. He reached #3 on MTV's list of top ten rappers, both of his albums have earned a spot on the 500 Best Albums of All Time. Many influential hip- hop magazines have dubbed him the Greatest of All Time. His name appears on lists of best rappers more times than any other rapper dead or alive, including Tupac, Jay z, and Lil' Wayne (if you consider this guy a rapper). Its not uncommon for speakers to be blasting Biggie's lyrics before a big concert or award show. Biggie is also famous for having his lines quoted by many, many artists. Primarily Jay z, 50 Cent, and Lil' Wayne.


There is ten parts to this video, all of them containing samples of Biggie's lyrics, and then the same lyrics rapped by other artists.

Biggie's style of rapping will always be remembered and it will always remain original. He had a husky, powerful tone that he would use alongside his ability to overlap many rhymes in one verse to stun his listeners. He rapped in many styles, he would sometimes even sing in a falsetto tone like in his songs, "Playa Hater", and "Come On." He was featured with the group "Bone- Thugs and Harmony" who are famous for their extremely rapid style of rapping, and Biggie rapped to that style better than they did, according to most people. Biggie's beats were mostly simple repetitive beats that really captured the mood of the content of the song. Sometimes he would have a few seconds at the beginning of a song in order to get the listeners in the mood.

Biggie was also respected greatly for his diversity in the themes of his rap. In Ready to Die, he portrayed himself as a common hustler, doing whatever it took to get to the top and how he finally reached the top. In Life After Death, Biggie portrayed himself as a ferocious drug lord, a mafia leader. He wrote romance, comedy, drug dealings, autobiographical stories, everything. But perhaps the area where he was most renowned, was his story telling ability. A very large portion of his songs were stories of his past, back when he dealt drugs, and would commit petty crimes to get money. Famous titles include, "Warning", "Somebody's Gotta Die", and "Niggas Bleed." He could put a story into rap better than any other MC could ever come close to, and everyone knows it.

This guy was a beast.