Being the notorious internet pirate that I am—not by downloading songs, but by listening to entire albums on Youtube—I decided to give The Carter III a spin. Now, this was one of my most anticipated albums of the year until I learned that Weezy wasn’t writing his own rhymes. I found this out when watching one of those ghetto DVD magazines, like Smack, when they aired a segment about a rapper named Gilly the Kid,. I had never heard of this guy before but from the interview that he gave it was evident that he had beef with Weezy and Birdman.
The story, according to Gilly, is that he was signed to Cash Money Records and had either written or recorded an entire album. Upon hearing the tracks Birdman ordered Gilly to give all the verses to Weezy and demoted young Gilly to the role of ghostwriter. Now, we all know how whack Weezy was back in the day (I seriously think his dopest verse was on “Tuesdays and Thursdays” and I still think Turk was better than him) when the Hot Boyz were still hot, Turk and B.G. wasn’t hooked on heroine and Juvenile was still the lead act on Cash Money. I’m also sure we also remember when “Hustler Musick” and “Go DJ” came out. Both tracks were hot and the beats were sick; however, we couldn’t help but notice one important difference—we actually began paying attention to Wayne’s lyrics. I mean, the dude had a nice flow and was actually spitting some shit—PAUSE. This was supposedly around the same time that Gilly got signed; so, I think this is more than a coincidence.
When I heard the news I felt like I was just scammed. I mean I was so impressed with Weezy’s delivery and came to the conclusion that he must of locked himself away in a room and really made the attempt to recreate himself and start to write some hot rhymes. I had a new found respect to Lil Wayne, and like I do with most artists that I respect I went out and purchased The Carter and was pleasantly surprised and satisfied with the album—the shit was HOTTT! I then at that moment became a pseudo Weezy fan that was merely in his corner and would defend him a hater dare said he was a garbage rapper. However, when I went Summer Jam in 2007 and saw him perform and spit on of the illest freestyles I’ve heard in a long time I was sold. Weezy was the savior that was to bring Hip-Hop to the next level and challenge every other southern rapper (since Hip-Hop lives in the south) to step their game up with lyrics.
I then followed Weezy as he grew become on of the top rappers in the game. I mean th kid was everywhere. He always had a single out and was on everyone’s song and was ripping each and every one of them. He even ripped an R&B song: “You give good brain like graduated from a good school.” I mean, this kid was dope. But news that he didn’t write his own rhymes made me lose all respect for this dude. Though his music is still hot and still listen to his songs, I will never buy another one of his albums.
So, on that note, The Carter III is definitely a hot album; but, next time you ill out to one of Weezy’s dope lines just keep in mind who really wrote it.
Weezy get’s the “Poser of the Year” award from 2004 – 2008.
Peace Out!
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