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"Best Rapper Alive"

My intention wasn’t to make this blog an Olympic-tribute. I guess you can say I got caught up in it all and was compelled to share my thoughts. Now that the Olympics in Beijing have come to an end, I’ve decided to move onto more important matters: Lil’ Wayne. I’m a huge music and hip-hop enthusiast but I’m still not sure whether to take this guy seriously. He is the self-proclaimed best rapper alive, infamously charging $100,000 for a guest-spot. Weezy also in a very unique position of being idolised and hyped in alternative circles as well as hip-hop circles. He certainly possesses some mean skills, as they say, but I haven’t quite worked out what’s elevated his stature above that of his peers. With bullet-wounds, tattoos, gold teeth and hood stories in tow, Wayne seems more like a parody of the rap gansta than a bonafide king of rap. At the moment I can’t seem to get past liking him on a novelty-basis, but I’m working on it.

While I do some Lil’ Wayne soul searching, I’m left feeling sure of one thing: Lil’ Wayne is CRAZY. So in celebration of this fact, I have assembled:

10 Crazy Lil’ Wayne Moments (not in any particular order)

1. “That’s what Martin Luther King told me. He ain’t never put a specific on what to [do]. He said you can do anything. “Kill” falls under that.” (Source: COMPLEX).

2. You must have the most unique voice in that world?
Lil’ Wayne: Some people can’t sing and can just use their voice very uniquely. I was watching these clips on E! of the worst people singing the National Anthem and - what’s the dudes name from that rock group - the nigga with the big lips.
Steven Tyler.
Lil’ Wayne: Steven Tyler? That’s the nigga with the big lips? That nigga’s like the worst ever! The secret - WHITE PEOPLE CAN’T SING UNLESS YOU’RE ROBIN THICKE! (Source: VIBE).

3. Most people manage to look worse in their mugshot. Not Lil’ Wayne though. He looks EXACTLY THE SAME!

Image taken from thesmokinggun.com

4. When Wayne was 15, his mother Gloria Carter, asked him to find someone to have a baby with so she wouldn’t be bored around the house. He had a daughter with a 14-year-old girl. (Source: VIBE).

5. “I think I’m a better MC than anybody who’s an MC. I don’t think I’m a better MC than anybody who was an MC. The dude that is an MC right now, I’m better than that one. But Jay-Z, I ain’t better than Jay-Z, never will be, ’cause Jay-Z is Jay-Z and better is an opinion. And even in school they told you opinions wasn’t shit.” (Source: COMPLEX).

6. And I be the shit
Now you got loose bowels
(Taken from the song, “A Milli”).

7. At age 12 he shot himself in the chest while trying to imitate Travis Bickle. (Source: TIME).

8. “My mama’s a gangsta…She told me every day, ‘Nigga play with you, you kill him.’ I believed her, and I do everything she say.” He told the journalist he was being interviewed by, while pointing at his tattooed tear drops. “You see these four? Lord, forgive me. But guess what, you play with me, I’ll knock your head open and piss on your motherfucking eyes.” (Source: HIPHOPDX).

9. “There are 16 songs on the disc by my and my CD player’s count, but perhaps one is neither simply brilliant nor sheer genius but superduper brillgenius classicawesome!” (An excerpt from the press release accompanying his latest album, Tha Carter III. Source: EXAMINER).

10. On the album, did you ever contemplate doing a whole track dedicated to the Hurricane Katrina tragedy?
Lil’ Wayne: No, because I’m from New Orleans, brother. Our main focus is to move ahead and move on. You guys are not from New Orleans and keep throwing it in our face, like, “Well, how do you feel about Hurricane Katrina.” I f**king feel f**ked up. I have no f**king city or home to go to. My mother has no home, her people have no home, and their people have no home. Every f**king body has no home. So do I want to dedicate something to Hurricane Katrina? Yeah, tell that b*tch to suck my d*ck. That is my dedication. (Source: AllHipHop.com).