This Thursday, Dwayne Carter gets released from Rikers Island Penn to wreak havoc once more, create music, and feed off the souls of the innocent.
In celebration of this momentous occasion I compiled a collection of personal favorite, creative, and even compelling songs by the misunderstood genius (Rolling Stone said it).
But first a few cool facts on Mr. Carter (No not Jay-Z)
- He attends the University of Houston, majoring in psychology.
- He bought a sky box at the Louisiana Superdome with fellow rapper and mentor, Birdman.
- Born in New Orleans
- At the young age of 13, Wayne would drop out of school to fully pursue a rap career.
- On August 14, 2006, Lil' Wayne was arrested on charges of possession of less than 1 ounce of marijuana and possession of a controlled substance. Police claim the rapper was in possession of several unlabeled bottles - one containing 60 pills of Alprazolam, a generic form of Xanax that is used to treat anxiety disorders and panic attacks; another containing 59 hydrocodone pills
- Sign: Libra
- IS INSANE
And now the list. Forgive the archaic hyper links, but putting the entire videos all up seems to be rocket science. Check them out. You won't be disappointed.
1) "La La La"
A beautiful portrait of a life in New Orleans, this song has a very sweet beat infused with reggae and hip hop. Wayne raps about his hard times as well as the happy times growing up in poverty to a successful and lucrative entrepreneur.
2) "I Feel Like Dying"
This was the first song I ever heard from Lil Wayne. Super hypnotic beat and very very crazy strange lyrics. Legend has it, he drank an entire bottle of codeine cough syrup mixed with Sprite and a jolly rancher (a classic party drank in the south known as purple drank or syzurup), stepped in to a booth and BAM! This was the result. Still one of my favorites just for how strange it is.
3) "Shoot Me Down"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z6hveNHvvTw
The only song that I know comes from an album, "The Carter III" is very similar to "I Feel Like Dying", but introduces one of the cooler things about Lil Wayne. His fondness of the guitar. In fact one of Lil Wayne's idols was Kurt Cobain of Nirvana.
4) "Paper Planes Remix"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VSIy9JLYMwY
3) "Shoot Me Down"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z6hveNHvvTw
The only song that I know comes from an album, "The Carter III" is very similar to "I Feel Like Dying", but introduces one of the cooler things about Lil Wayne. His fondness of the guitar. In fact one of Lil Wayne's idols was Kurt Cobain of Nirvana.
4) "Paper Planes Remix"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VSIy9JLYMwY
Don't know who he is raping with, don't know where this came from, don't even know if that is the right title, but dammit MIA's "Paper Planes" was to awesome of a song not to be remixed five million times including Wayne (Kid Cudi also has a really cool remix of the summer time jam, but that's for another day).
This song reminds me of hanging out with my little brother and than maybe going and robbing a bank with him for some bother/thug bonding. Word Son
5) "Office Musik"
f "The Office" and Lil Wayne collided in real life, it probably wouldn't be this gansterific. Seriously one of the coolest renditions of "Hustla Musik". It's creative, it's funny, and dare I say it's even cute.
For all of you who took time to learn a little more about Dwayne Michael Carter Jr. thank you and for all of those who probably still dislike, hate Lil Wayne, or even hate him more after reading this than that's you. The point is for some crazy reason this 5'6" Wild Man has touched me with his music, his all out craziness, and his bravery and courage to do what he wanted to do in life. You can say he is immoral, innapropriate, and even idiotic, but you can't say that he has definitely made some sort or of lasting impression.
