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Thanks for inspiring me, George.

Even before I read his comment, while on a bike ride across the Willamette Valley, I considered what I had written yesterday and I came upon understanding that inspired me to write. The width of this blog will allow me to color more of my taste in rap music.

I wrote four books of poetry in high school. During homeroom in sophomore year, while I was cornered away from kids I went to elementary school with, I would watch videos of a young Tupac Shakur (who died at 25) in high school with rage for life. The classmates away from me were friends of mine in the early 2000’s until I went to private school in 2003. I was away from them four years before I left private school and returned home to New England.

The classmates and I sat over twenty feet apart from each other at computer desks. Their gathering was like a round table while I was locked in to candid videos of my favorite poet, 2Pac.

I won’t shy and say that I started liking rap music with 2Pac because I liked it most by Lil’ Wayne. The point I thought of today on my bike ride that inspired me to tell you more about my love for Lil’ Wayne is the amount of passion he puts into his music. He lives with care for each breath he takes toward vocals.

I just thought of another understanding.

In the shower I thought about how Lil’ Wayne was pushed to break new ground. He signed Drake before Drake rose to the top and went on to carry out his own ideas for entertainment, art, and rap music with a focus on the progression that Lil’ Wayne dug his heels into.

No Ceilings 2 seems like a passion project, like when Wayne first started rapping and his heart bled over each second of song. I feel Wayne’s music. His music is rooted in the south and I especially enjoy the roll bounce that it carries, in the same way I enjoy Curren$y, (but never have I liked Birdman).

These days there is a consideration to Wayne’s content, which encompasses a narrow range of topics with a colorful elaboration to them. I understand why he isn’t respected, but it is his work ethic, longevity, dedication, passion, and entertainment he puts into his work.

As for the sound, if you can listen to Wayne’s music with reverence for his continual part in progressive culture, then you will happen upon gems of sound that Wayne laid into and turned into a jewel of music. I hope, not just with Wayne, I can be a productive part of whatever I lay my hands to.

Thanks again, George

I hope someone reads this

In about 2007 I heard a song on 97.1 FM entitled Want You; I have been a Lil’ Wayne fan ever since.

It was Dwayne Michael Carter’s second portion of the mixtape, No Ceilings that inspired me to write this (It has been weeks since I last put down over 100 meaningful words). A friend of mine in film school told me that once I learned the fundamentals, I could “make a riff out of it.” I hope to live a life like that.

I hope to live a life where I learn the fundamentals and can go on to “make a riff out of it.”

No Ceilings 2 came out at the end of fall, when everyone away from the equator hunkered into a period of sadness as dark clouds and heavy winds ruled the land. When I discovered the album (No Ceilings 2) it had been six years since Wayne dropped No Ceilings.

(I hate this.):

If you defend him and go on to say, “Lil’ Wayne,” you flinch because there is stigma about Lil’ Wayne that attaches him to the expressive structure of rap music—whether goofy and black or angry and white.

I defend him.

Dwayne Michael Carter (Lil’ Wayne) has made thousands of songs, won excessive amounts of awards, and was the sound of my youth from ninth grade to a full-time job at 24 through homelessness and 4,000 miles on the road by bicycle. I was a senior in high school when Lil’ Wayne dropped the first portion of No Ceilings.

I bumped the tracks of No Ceilings as I slow-rode in my first car down a slope out of the mobile home park that my mom lived in.

“No ceilings, *****, good morning!”

It was on those streets that I was stopped by our landlord because my music was too loud and disrupted the old people who lived around us. The No Ceilings album was a mixtape where Wayne had hyper-improved since his days of I Can’t Feel My Face. Both were mixtapes but No Ceilings represented his fame since the feature he had when I first heard him on the radio in 2007 as a part of Lloyd’s single, Want You.

Lil’ Wayne pierces the complacency of genres to inspire mobility in creativity. Lil’ Wayne maximizes the potential of sound and has fun while doing it.

Lil’ Wayne is the best rapper ever.

I hate how stigma has swallowed Lil’ Wayne.

You’re gonna go on to rally and say how smart it is for me to say this about a man who had been buried as a demigod to pop culture. How smart it is that I could find beauty in the destroyed. It is there that I will say that there are many subjects that mean more to me than an analysis of my favorite music that I won’t get to harp on in the brief life we lead to live; although I hope I will in our future.

In conclusion, I am ecstatic to have a new Wayne album that is a prize for fans that enjoy what skills he garners.