Anyone who Hates on Lil Wayne Just Isn't Listening

He's baaaacckkkk...Lil Wayne "No Celings" mixtape recently dropped and it is the shit.

Lots of people hate on Lil Wayne.

If you don't like him that's fine, but you can't deny his skill on the mic. Musical taste is subjective, but fluid lyrical sorcery is not.

Accordingly, I feel obliged to break down a couple of his couplets for the haters out there.

From "Wasted" on the "No Celings" mixtape:

"Your flow never wet, like grandma pussy, i'm always good, like grandma cookies. Call me the sweene or the swine fixer, it's going down like the Catalina Wine Mixer"

He goes from alluding to the crudest of things, an arid post-menopause vagina, then harks back to the purest of memories, grandma's cookies (which were always good, just as he states).

Next, Wayne drops some shit that forces the listener to accept the fact that mere mortals might never fully understand weezy's free-flowing ideas: "Call me the sweene or the swine fixer". I think he's trying to comment on the confusing labeling of the swine/sweene/H1N1 flu, whatever the fuck it is, Weezy fixes that shit! That's how powerful he is, he can stop a motherfuckin epidemic!

Next comes a personal favorite of mine, a reference to the Will Ferrell movie Step Brothers ("it's going down like the Catalina wine mixer"). at the end of the movie, the brothers finally grow up and succeed at the Catalina wine mixer, which is the cinematic equivalent of the academic decathlon in Billy Madison, the event at which our protagonist(s) finally prove themselves. In referencing said movie, Wayne provides further lightness to what is a both poignant and nostalgic portrayal of the woes and joys of female old age, menopause and baking for one's grandchildren.

But lest we forget this is hip-hop, so above the subtle undercurrents I've described here, he is ultimately telling us how fucking good he is at rap, nah, at life.

"I got 27 years of this, hit or miss, I hit your misses, you a local news, I'm 60 minutes. I hit the target, I hit the witness, I work out in my office, guess I'm fit for business"

In this verse, Weezy gives us a lesson in one of his favorite lyrical spells: the quadruple entendre; as opposed to that more common of entendres, the simple double. Wayne plays with the multiple meanings of the word 'hit', starting first by describing a topic anyone can relate to, his/her legacy.

Wayne is 27 years old and throughout the trials and tribulations ('hit or miss') of Lil Wayne's 27 years of life, one thing is certain, he will fuck your bitch ('hit your misses') because, just as 60 Minutes is to local news, Weezy is superior. He is a sharpshooter ('hit the target') who can eliminate a witness to any impending court case ('hit the witness') if need be. He ends this part of the verse with a standard Weezy double entendre, further describing how ready he is for any damn thing that comes his way on either main st. or wall st. ('I work out in my office, guess I'm fit for business').

And so, to the haters out there. Stop hating, you have no case.

P.S.
Big up to Rapexegesis.com, which served as inspiration for this posting.