Lil Wayne is successful. He immediately propels any song he's on to Top 40 success. He's even capable of making decent songs once in awhile.
But there's plenty of reasons not to like him - even for people who do:
He doesn't represent real hip-hop
Look, I know he can make music, and rap, and have beats and everything - but just saying whatever rhymes and calling it a song doesn't count. People who say hip-hop isn't real music usually point to this guy as a scapegoat and haven't really heard much else, thus hurting the genre's credibility.
He turns off hip-hop purists
A friend of mine once told me he doesn't listen to any new artists after 2007 - funny, that's the same year Lil Wayne caught fire. When there have been legit good artists like Drake and Asher Roth since then - both go hard lyrically, see Say What's Real by the former and La Di Da by the latter - it's truly a shame.
He thinks he's infallible
Lil Wayne is tackling rock now, and his Rebirth album...kind of sucks (I totally saw it coming). I'm not going to knock Lil Wayne for messing around with rap - he doesn't sound bad at times - but his arrogance that he thinks he can work with any genre is just appalling.
So there you go, if you have any other reasons for hating Lil Wayne (or if you disagree with mine) then leave your words in the comments. Just try to write something more intelligent than "You don't know what the **** you're talking about, YOUNG MULAH BABY!!"
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