Little Wayne Is Garbage

lil' wayne is bullshit.
fuck lil' wayne.
he's not good.
i could just leave it there and move on but this motherfucker won't go away. the thing is, it's not like some pop sensation that is obviously bad but only liked by teenagers. this dude is the fucking most loved retard on the planet.
hipsters love him
mainstream rap fans love him and , most shockingly,
underground rap heads like him.
for as long as i've been listening to hip hop, i'd say i have a decent grasp on what is good and bad about an mc. obviously, it's all opinion but i mean in the most basic sense. like "his flow is on beat" or "he is clever". to me, lil wayne is a mediocre underground rapper. he's not bad. he says some funny lines at times (as well as cringe inducing stupid lines). but he's just nothing special. he's a punchline based mc who sounds like he should never have made it off the mixtape circuit. whenever i discuss this with wayne fans they bring up two things
1)his voice
2)he's a weirdo
well, his voice is indeed interesting. i also find is insanely annoying and whiny. wayne basically raps in baby talk. but i will give it to him, he's got an original voice. but "original" doesn't always mean "good". the lead singer of "the crash test dummies" has an original voice...and i doubt any would argue against the fact that he sucks.
as for being a weirdo, it's actually refreshing to see a rapper, in today's fucked up copy cat market, being different. in Wayne's case, being different means dressing like an uber faggot hipster/rocker and being REALLY high all the time. he does say some off the wall kool kiethe-sque shit. being really high tends to bring that out of people. but what separates him from kool kieth is that kool kieth is actually crazy. he's not normal. a good friend of mine Jewey showed me some old Kool Keith shit that was on some crack-head, felacio for dollar-menu items shit. I'm not buying it from wayne. he's way more just plain dumb then he is avant guard or strange. we all have known that guy who is dumb as a pile of bricks who wold get stoned and say crazy off the wall shit. that guy isn't a genius. he's slow and his brain can't handle deep thoughts so it spits out random nuggets of nonsense. wayne is the rap equivalent to that guy.
part of being a weirdo is also being unlike others. this is where Wayne loses this case hands down, cause that motherfucker is a BITER. he literally rhymes like older jay-z. from the flow patterns to where he enunciates words, he obviously studied jay intensely and copied. that is the opposite of original. i do give him credit for moving away from his earlier "bling bling" era image and focusing on getting better at his craft. there's no argument here that he's vastly improved since he fist came out with the cash money millionaires. but even with that improvement, he's still just lil wayne.
i think the most annoying facet of this is his fans. in the case of the mainstream hip hop people. it's expected. they like anything they hear on the radio and are willing to make fucktards like MIMS and rich boy famous. lil wayne is like rakim compared to those two. if i bumped that kinda shit all day then heard wayne, i'd lose my shit too.
The underground love is confusing though. i feel as if , in hip hops current state, there's a strong underground hip hop backlash going on and all these former nerd rap fans wanna reject the shit they came up on by embracing some shit they hated less then a year ago. it's as if they feel like they are redeeming themselves from ever being nerds. but the thing is, these heads should know better. if you're deeply immersed in hip hop, you know what's original and what a good mc sounds like. these heads, more then anyone, are aware of that kinda shit. so, for them to just latch on to wayne , like he's this gifted artist , makes no sense.
with the hipsters, it's almost offensive. see, hipsters stopped giving a shit about hip hop a long time ago. that's fine. i can't hate on that at all. hip hop is pretty boring right now. but they do this thing (it's weirdly racist to me but i can't quite put my finger on how) where they always have one rapper they still claim to love. before wayne, it was "the clipse" and that was good cause they're actually really dope. before that, it was cam'ron. in cam's case, i got it. he was funny. i've actually laughed out loud to some of his lines. there was an irony there that made sense and , on top of that, he made some good songs. but lil wayne? you motherfuckers are seriously reaching. i don't care how many studded bracelets he wears, how many non sensical verses he makes rapped through auto-tune (still?!?!?!), how many shitty club hooks he comes up with over terrible beats or how many "Street" tracks he makes rapping over some awesome old sample that no one else can afford to use, he's still just lil' wayne. he is not the greatest rapper alive. he's not remotely close. he's a semi ok underground battle rapper who is , in all likelihood, seriously learning disabled.