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1st July 2007, 05:46
This is from somewhere else, but I found it so funny and so true. One of the worst trends in music journalism.
To glaze over Lil Wayne's remarkable lyrical prowess and to focus solely on the gaudy production is most unjust to a talented young minstrel such as Lil Wayne. Lil Wayne's music is the apotheosis of dance, his music is an amalgam of Negroid Culture , past and present. His music symbolizes his peoples struggles through the horrors of Slavery, through the cultural blossoming that was the Jazz age and the redemption that was the Civil Rights Movement, his lyrics represent this arduous journey, the highs and the lows all melt together to paint a picture of Black Culture.
You bring up the subject of vulgarity, but this is obviously a repudiation of society rigid and overbearing Judeo-Christian morality system that has been thrust upon mankind, Lil Wayne continues in the tradition of Charles Baudelaire and Arthur Rimbaud with the concept of "Épater la bourgeoisie" (to shock the middle-class), which adds further depth and meaning to this curiously palette tingling artist.
In conclusion the juxtaposition of vulgar, yet hopeful and tortured verses lead us to a confused interpretation of this "oeuvre" which is a reflection of our own frustrations.
What I just posted inside the quotes is mocking writing eloquently about low-bro hip hop.
To glaze over Lil Wayne's remarkable lyrical prowess and to focus solely on the gaudy production is most unjust to a talented young minstrel such as Lil Wayne. Lil Wayne's music is the apotheosis of dance, his music is an amalgam of Negroid Culture , past and present. His music symbolizes his peoples struggles through the horrors of Slavery, through the cultural blossoming that was the Jazz age and the redemption that was the Civil Rights Movement, his lyrics represent this arduous journey, the highs and the lows all melt together to paint a picture of Black Culture.
You bring up the subject of vulgarity, but this is obviously a repudiation of society rigid and overbearing Judeo-Christian morality system that has been thrust upon mankind, Lil Wayne continues in the tradition of Charles Baudelaire and Arthur Rimbaud with the concept of "Épater la bourgeoisie" (to shock the middle-class), which adds further depth and meaning to this curiously palette tingling artist.
In conclusion the juxtaposition of vulgar, yet hopeful and tortured verses lead us to a confused interpretation of this "oeuvre" which is a reflection of our own frustrations.
What I just posted inside the quotes is mocking writing eloquently about low-bro hip hop.