March 26, 2013 YoungMoney/ Cash Money artist Lil
Wayne released his 10th Album “I Am Not a Human Being II,” and it
has not been getting that many good reviews however. Metacritic,
Rolling Stone,
Los Angeles
Times, The New York Times, Spin,
and PopMatters
all pretty much said that he sounds uninterested, and less unpredictable then
previous works and after listening to it myself I can’t help but agree. I mean
as a fan I am disappointed I Loved the first “I Am Not a Human Being,” I bought
“the Carter” two times and bought “the Carter 2” plus the chopped and screwed
version, shit I even had the tape [because I didn’t have a CD player at that
time] of “The Block is Hot.” That’s not
even to including the numerous Lil Wayne mixtapes such as Drought series and
Dedication series and my personal favorite mixtape from Wayne “No Ceilings.” I
also said that to prove I’m not just a guy out there trying to hate because
it’s cool to say Lil Wayne is wack. Not
only am a fan I also rap so I only collect music that inspire me to advance my
own lyrical potential, you are talking to a person that listen to mostly
straight Hip Hop, punchline rap, battle raps and conscious rap. My personal
favorite rappers to listen to is Nas, Jay-Z, Wu-Tang Clan, Eminem,
Slaughterhouse, Fabolous, Cory Gunz, Busta Rhymes… etc etc. The point is I put
Lil Wayne music in my “studies” but this album … let’s just say I aint learning
nothing on this album but if I put Future on a hook I have club track and don’t
ever ask Soulja boy for any musical assistance ever, two things I already know.
Let’s start with the intro it’s an
epic dramatic piano solo but the first thing the listener hear Wayne say is
“I'm in the crib butt naked bitch.
She said my dick could be the next black president
Americans hate that I'm American.
Medicine, I treat it like peppermints.
Uh, I'm in the ocean getting shark pussy.
Shoot you in ya fuckin' mouth and make you talk to me.
Sometimes I need someone to talk to.
Cuz I am Not A Human Being... Part Two.”
She said my dick could be the next black president
Americans hate that I'm American.
Medicine, I treat it like peppermints.
Uh, I'm in the ocean getting shark pussy.
Shoot you in ya fuckin' mouth and make you talk to me.
Sometimes I need someone to talk to.
Cuz I am Not A Human Being... Part Two.”
Now if you look at this and is like “what the fuck is he
talking about” I can understand why it’s like every line is telling its own
story and it’s so many stories at one time you can’t keep up because you think
he is talking about one thing. It’s like you want to tell him “hey wait a
minute you can’t start another story without explaining the first.” It’s like
his flow got ADHD. Then the rest of the intro is him bragging about his sex
life and how he better then a girl’s man and his machismo [I guess that’s the
word for it]. However, just like all intros suppose to do it gives u a clue of
what’s in store in the album. Now we all like Sex Money and Drugs [at one time
or another in our lives] but too much of anything is bad for you and Wayne
basically overdosed us all with SMD [the acronym I’m using for Sex, Money and
Drugs]
Now I’m not going to lie like Wayne doesn’t have any
lines because he do have some lines. If you were to read his rhymes you will
catch them, but like he talking so much about just SMD it’s like you don’t even
care about what he saying. The fact he just talking SMD so much you don’t even
care how sweet his lines are because you like “damn nigga can u talk about
anything else!” Leave you wondering can you really be the Best Rapper Alive if
all you can talk about is SMD. Oh and he do hav some cornball ass lines in
there to like “All my niggas gangstas, all my bitches freaks/ I tickle her
pussy, got that pussy tickle pink.” Then sometimes Wayne rhyme scheme is so everywhere you don’t
know what he talking about you get lost in just his voice and beats, the
effects of his ADHD flow. Plus some of the hooks are corny like in “Beat the
Shit” when he says “I’ll knock the Snow off your Cone” come on B’ like it
leaves you with the “Really Bitch?!” face. Then he gives you another one of
them annoying ass Love Ballads. People let Lil Wayne pass with “How to Love” because it had
a message but let’s be real nobody wanna hear Lil Wayne sing but Lil Wayne.
This especially goes for the song “Back to You” since it sound like you singing
to one chick then it turns into two. I don’t know what bitch you serenading but
there is not one self-respecting woman who would want to be serenaded to a Love
song dedicated to Sex… not Love but Sex. Yes this dude made a Love Song entirely
dedicated to Sex that’s how much he Loves Sex. I guess when a person is locked
away for a year away from sex and that person is use to it all the time, I
guess that situation will do that to you. Once again, “ODing” us with “SMD.”
Now let’s get into the singles, “No
Worries” this is the song where he screaming all over the place like someone is
trying to kill him. Long story short
it’s catchy but not one of my favorites. Next is “Love Me” just like all the
songs I’ve heard with Future on them I’m going to love it in the club after the
club I’m not going to want to listen to it at all. First of all the radio
already played the song out so much, that I’m tired of hearing it. Also I don’t
like any lines that make demonic symbols [Satan] sound like a good thing. Then we have “Rich as Fuck” with 2 Chainz on
the hook, the hook it get’s me hype even though the hook is so simple it just
doesn’t seem like it should be a single just an extra song. However if I hear
it in the club, the atmosphere will get me hyped up to the point that I’ll
enjoy it. Outside of the club I don’t hear me listening to it, it’s enough 2
Chainz and other Lil Wayne songs that I can listen to.
Also I think it was some recording
schedule confusion because I think Gunplay should have been on “Trigger Finger”
and Soulja Boy on the popish sounding song “Beat the shit.” Even though Gunplay
had the most entertaining rhyme in the whole album just off his energy in the
song and his lyrics but you think a dude name Gunplay would logically be on
Trigger Finger. Especially since Soulja Boy is just talking about how he “Fresh
to Death” the whole time he is “rapping” [if you want to call that rapping.]
Soulja Boy verse doesn’t have shit to do with the song and being that Soulja is
a Pop artist [at least to me he is] you would expect him to be on a beat like
“Beat the Shit.” Either way Soulja don’t help the album. Especially on the beat
he made for Wayne
on “Wowsers” like really anybody could have made this beat. It’s bad enough
it’s another sex song basically but Lil Wayne overdoses you even more with SMD by
putting Trina up there. Now I love Trina [so much I think I still have the
Source wear she sitting on that shark pool toy] but by the time you get to this
song you so tired of hearing about this nigga’s sex life you don’t even want to
here what she has to say [unless she was right in front of me but that’s a
whole different story.]
You get a chance to breathe with the
song “God Bless Amerika,” I like his hook and I love the beat in this song but
in his verses he overdoses on lines so much I swear the message is lost. It
just sound like he said to himself I need at least one song that’s deep but
tried to hard to be deep and becomes too witty filling every line with
punchlines to the point that it sounds corny. Again the ADHD flow strikes
again.
Once again this just my opinion as
a concern fan and in my opinion this is not the type of album you would expect
from an artist’s 10th album, at best this sounded like a mixtape.
People are missing the “Hustler Musiks,” “Shoot Me Downs,” “Drop the Worlds”
and “President Carters.” Not to mention the intros like “the Mobb” and “3Peat,”
and the straight lyrical Lil Wayne from the mixtapes to the albums with the
crazy features from Juels Santana, Fabolous, Jadakiss Bun B, to Nas. I’m missing the
energy from my favorite Lil Wayne song “Best Rapper Alive.” I will never say he
wack like the rest of the sheepfold but I will say this album has not been one
of my favorites to listen to. Maybe he
has to many yes men around him just tagging along for the ride and the check,
maybe he needs more MCs in his team like some more Cory Gunz, Jae Millz [here’s
a question where is that guy at] and Mack Maine. Not to exclude Drake because
he do got lyrics he just has all them soft ass songs but even Eminem got
Slaughterhouse around him, Jay- Z and Kanye got J. Cole, Common, Pusha T, Cyhi
the Prince, Big Sean [even tho he be talking bout the same shit to.] Kendrick
Lamar is the newest rapper of the year but I’m pretty sure his team at TDE and
Black Hippy help keeps him grounded also. It might be he actually getting to be
bored with rap just like I am beginning to be and losing his inspiration. I
don’t know what it is really, I just know that even women is getting tired of
this Happy Go Lucky Hip Hop and the Watered-Down Rap shit. People looking for
something with a little bit more substance in it and less abuse.
