#16 of 366: Mr. Carter, Lil Wayne, JAY-Z

While Childish Gambino may have grabbed the higher ranking song on this year’s list, I don’t know that there will be someone on it more times than Lil Wayne.

If you appreciate double and even triple entendres, Weezy is your man. Listen to his songs while following along with the lyrics if you can. There is so much STYLE on his words and it’s in EVERY SINGLE SONG he appears on.

“Man, I got Summer hatin’ on me ’cause I’m hotter than the Sun, got Spring hatin’ on me ’cause I ain’t never sprung, Winter hatin’ on me ’cause I’m colder than y’all, and I will never, I will never, I will never Fall, I’m being hated by the seasons, so fuck y’all who hatin’ for no reason”
-Lil Wayne

If you’re curious as to my 42-year-old, straight cisgender white-man opinion on this Holiest of Hip Hop topics, he absolutely deserves to be in the conversation with those Hip Hop lyrical gods and giants. Eminem is in there, Nas is in there, Andre 3000 is in there. We’ll hear a lot more from these guys this year because I discovered some INCREDIBLE Hip-Hop this year.

Jay’s verse on this track is Jay just being Jay. Absolute quality every single time and has to be one of the most consistent rappers in my lifetime in terms of just beginning of career to modern times he’s just straight fire whenever he opens his mouth. That was an awful, awful sentence. I kind of like editing this in first person and just talking to you while I do it…leaving it in because I’m obsessed with the idea of Kintsugi. (See the Regeneration post: https://everything-etc.com/2020/02/01/regeneration/) It’s was a shit sentence but it’s MY shit sentence.

Anyway, Jay’s verse!

“I’m right here in my chair, with my crown and my dear, Queen B, as I share mic time with my heir, Young Carter, go farther, go further, go harder, is that not why we came? and if not, then why bother?”
-JAY-Z

My personal favorite verse is Weezy’s last verse.

“It’s my go, yeah, and I’ma go so opposite of soft, off the richter, Hector, Camacho Man, Randy Savage, far from average, above status-quo, flow, so pro, I know I ride slow, and when I pass, they say, “What up, Killa?”, man stop bringin’ up my past! and next time you mention Pac, Biggie, or Jay Z don’t forget Weezy, baby”
-Lil Wayne

Please enjoy a great performance by these two future Jesse Terry Hip Hop Pantheon Members. I guess I’m doing that I’m at some point! Let me know what you think!