11/28/2023 0 Comments Lil wayne moment of clarity![]() “I’m in the crib buck-naked, bitch”, Weezy lazily raps, right before making the first dick joke of I Am Not A Human Being II. It’s an abstract, fundamentally interesting experiment - that is, except for Lil’ Wayne himself. No 808, no canned drums, just piano and voice that’s par for the course in the singer-songwriter world, but practically unheard of in hip-hop. Rather, it’s a morphing, free-form piano piece that Lil’ Wayne eventually raps over. “IANAHB” opens the record with a flurry of ominous piano chords it seems as though it’s setting the stage for a dark, piano-laced beat, but the beat never kicks in. Like, legitimately cool from a musical standpoint, not merely cool in the sense that Lil’ Wayne fans tend to cling to that ludicrous period of time where people were calling him the greatest rapper alive. ![]() For a few brief, shining moments, Lil’ Wayne’s latest album flirts with being cool.
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