Comments on: Wayne’s Week

By: tommy

tommy — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 15:26:31 +0000

hey dude, you can email me at redstateskeptic {at} gmail(.)com

By: Gnarlytown

Gnarlytown — Sat, 14 Jun 2008 17:29:56 +0000

Lil’ Weezy the Duck is easily the Best Rapper Alive, to take from Jiggaman… Great read Ray.

By: Ray

Ray — Sat, 14 Jun 2008 15:20:01 +0000

Tommy, we got to get you a password! Who are you? Rap encyclopedia…I love heroin too. I wrote that piece in two hours yest am over a large cup of Starbucks, so it wasn’t perfect. But that’s exactly what I was getting at w Carter 2—Mannie left and they went for a new, more produced sound.

By: PL

PL — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 22:10:13 +0000

Inspired piece of writing man! America really IS still great haha

By: tommy

tommy — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 19:52:53 +0000

btw, the greatest thing about bounce is it’s the only kind of music ever where rappers actually talk about doing (not dealing) heroin. “Ain’t nothin’ wrong wit a n*gga wit heron, ain’t nothin’ wrong so let’s snort a powda bag!” Not talking about one or two rappers, this was the entire scene, including Juvenile.

By: tommy

tommy — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 19:46:25 +0000

That’s a link to an Emory term paper! It’s actually accurate, but it’s talking about earlier Cash Money and earlier Juvie. CMR was a bounce label from around 1992-95, and Juvie was a bounce rapper then too (he was on Jimi’s tape which from what I have heard was the biggest thing ever in NO). So was Baby (as B-32). A bunch of No Limit rappers were doin’ the bounce thing too (Magnolia Slim = Soulja Slim) but when they hooked up with P, that all ended. That link says “Ha” brought the NO sound nationwide, but that’s not really true, it’s just the Mannie Fresh sound.

Bounce is like the other white meat in the south, if you’re from La, Mississippi, Texas or west Tennessee, you grew up shakin’ it to DJ Jimi, and if you’re from the East you dance to bass music. I can upload some of you want.

It’s funny, Wayne only evolved on Carter 2 because Mannie had just left and the sound changed, but you listen to “Who Wanna” or “Snitch” off Carter 1, and he was already a fucking beast on the mic. And definitely not considered a sideshow, he was the main attraction. I remember when “Bring It Back” came out before the album and he declared “best rapper alive since the best rapper retired” cats in Atlanta couldn’t stop laughing at him (although that was a DOPE track) but when “Go DJ” dropped and people checked out the album, he was the biggest thing left of Tip.

By: ray lemoine

ray lemoine — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 18:49:53 +0000

AP—Do you have an image of the Weezy/IME 7″?

In no way am I’m saying wayne sucked when he was younger, but Go DJ/Carter 1 was typical Cash Money. But since Carter 2, they’ve gone to a more Miami/Chicago/NY produced sound on the albums. More about the evolution of Cash Money…

“A similar release by DJ Jimi in 1992 helped establish a distinctive sound, and a vital scene coalesced around the new style of music soon christened “bounce.” Local independents like Cash Money, Parkway Pumpin’, and Pack supplied the growing demand with releases by Juvenile, Lil Slim, Magnolia Slim, Pimp Daddy, Everlasting Hitman, Silky Slim, Cheeky Blakk, and dozens of others…” on:http://www.southernspaces.org/contents/2008/miller/4d.html

By: tommy

tommy — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 18:12:29 +0000

great post (especially giving birdman his due) and I hate to split hairs, but sometimes you can’t help it… there is nothing bounce about “Ha” … bounce is another style of music all together that Mannie (and Juvie) was a part of for a minute, but by the time of the CMR golden age, he was off doing his own future-funk shit.

also, I know it takes NYC years to catch up with the rest of the rap world, but the first Carter (Mannie’s last album with CMR) was really when Wayne became major again, especially when Go DJ came out.

By: Anthony Pappalardo

Anthony Pappalardo — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 16:56:43 +0000

IME - Lil Wayne Demo 7″ cover. 1999

How does he keep getting cooler?