Playing on homonyms is a big part of what Wayne thrived off of, and here, he does it well.Ģ9. “I am a vegetarian man I only eat beets / wear a lot of carats and I smoke the best green” He never mentioned if he heard his name dropped on this verse.ģ0. He announced his retirement in December 2013, and officially stepped down in May of 2014 after 40 years in office. Shoutout to Frank Minyard who – at the time of this verse – actually was the Coroner in New Orleans. “New Orleans coroner, his name is Frank Minyard / Fuck with me wrong, you’ll be waking up in his yard” “Shake the whole game / Like the hit-stick, nigga”Ī warm memory for those of us who came of age during the earliest version(s) of the Playstation 2 DualShock controller.ģ1. “Didn't wear a bulletproof / So I got shot and you can see the proof / Blind eyes could look at me and see the truth /Wonder if Stevie do?”įrom a small handful of Wayne and JAY Z collaborations, Wayne proves that he is not a Stevie Wonder conspiracy theorist (or is he?)ģ2. Though not the most appealing way to spend one’s day – depending on what the night before consisted of – Wayne gets points for the imagery here.ģ3. “Big house / long hallways / got 10 bathrooms, I can shit all day” Only a real one can drop a Mortal Kombat reference out of nowhere and pull it off.ģ4. "Feet hanging out the window jock my shoe game / Cause all my kicks fly like Liu Kang" As he is now cemented as a rap veteran, and embroiled in a seemingly endless label dispute over his much-anticipated Carter V album-still without a window for release-it seems a fitting time to honor the 35 best Lil Wayne lines.ģ5.
His verses hold up, in part because he focused so heavily on delivering rapid-fire punchlines in his rhymes, in a manner that has inspired rappers after him: 2 Chainz, Big Sean, and Drake, to name a few. His first verses came when he was just 11 years old, coming on the collaborative album True Story with B.G.įrom there, Wayne has become one of the most successful and critically acclaimed rappers of his era, specifically hanging an extremely dominant run on the late 00s and early 2010s. Wayne is only approaching age 35-celebrating his birthday today-but has been rapping since he was literally a child. If it seems like Lil Wayne has been around forever, it is because for an entire generation, he has been.
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