Viva la Weezy! Lil Wayne’s kind-of-new album that was recorded half a year ago just dropped, and like most of his projects, the metaphors, similes and punch lines are aplenty. Maybe it’s because we missed Wayne, but there seem to be an exorbitant amount of similes on I Am Not A Human Being. It was like Weezy said “like” every other line. Our crack research staff at TSS decided to go song-by-song, counting all of the similes for you and highlighting the dopest examples and a few that made us scratch our heads.
Maybe we just don’t speak Martian.
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Song: “Gonorrhea” (Feat. Drake)
“Like” Count: 7
Dope: “I’m so ahead of my time like dog years…” – This line is so mind-bendingly awesome. It’s like a time-warp in one sentence. Our brains may explode trying to comprehend, actually.
WTF: “I ball like Solange, India Arie, Britney Spears…” – Okay, look: of all the clever homonyms in Hip-Hop, trying to stretch “ball” to sound like “bald” is the worst.
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Song: “Hold Up” (Feat. T. Streets)
“Like” Count: 8
Dope: “P*ssy in the bedroom/pass that b*tch down like an heirloom..” – Weezy gets an infinite amount of credit for just using the word “heirloom.” This might be the dopest line on the entire album.
WTF: “Shoot ya in ya halo/Shoot ya like Halo…” – Wayne gets two points for the Halo reference. But he loses 40 points for just being flat-out lazy with this one. Final tally: -38.
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Song: “With You” (Feat. Drake)
“Like” Count: 8
Dope: “And when I came, she caught me like the common cold…” – This is pretty much your typical Lil Wayne simile, cleverly stringing together two completely unrelated topics and brewing them into an XXX-rated fantasy romp. Definitely a line that makes a track rewind worthy.
WTF: “You got me gone like some green lights…” – Well, you can’t win ‘em all and for every genius simile, you’re bound to have a couple duds like that and Me and shawty go together like chemicals. The second one might fly with another rapper, but I’ve heard enough of Weezy to know that he can do way better. Maybe he was rushed by a prison sentence or something.
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At this point, I don’t know. Dude is showing his lyrical limitations to me. He takes the same things and just rewords them. “I’m the shit like….” “She sucks my dick like…” “I bring it to you like…”
And that Nino line has been done to death. Off the top I can remember Sigel and 50 using the same lines.
Dude skyrocketed with his growth from the Hot Boys to the Carter but it’s now time for him to join us Earthlings and hit the rap cocoon again.
He does use a lot of similes tho.lol
The “bride shoes” line wasn’t bad, IMO. “fly food” was terrible though.
“Dope: “I’m so ahead of my time like dog years…” – This line is so mind-bendingly awesome. It’s like a time-warp in one sentence. Our brains may explode trying to comprehend, actually.”
You’re joking, right?
^are we? you’ll never know! BWAHAHAHAHA! *ominous music*
@Cell – It may have been used to death, but that line was dope lol.
nice read….
i agree; naming your genitalia after any man is creepy.
@David D
As long as there’s even the slightest bit of doubt…
Haha…even the supposed ‘best’ lines are laboured and weak, more often than not they don’t make any sense except on a totally superficial level.
I mean, fair play, he went from being a borderline retard rapper to an average to middling rapper, so he has shown progression but let’s not act like his lyrics stand up to even the most fleeting scrutiny.
In that case I am ahead of my time. I have been tired of him since he peaked, which to me was at the end of 07. I was excited to see him on the tracklisting of the Getback album. But then, I felt that his verse was weak. To me it’s been a downward spiral since; No Ceilings was cool though.
Over-rated. We have heard all of this before.
“Single” still wins and that Nino line is still a gem, that will be used for years to come.Since this was initially an E.P., I can’t fully grade/critique this as an album.(Don’t call me no Wayne stan. haha) Carter 4 is something I/and everybody have been waiting to be released.(it’s been talked about before carter 3 came out. They straight up defied logic) Yes, his similies are getting bland and are starting to lose their effect. However, he is Wayne, the reason why most(97 %) of these young rap cats use such a flow/delivery). So he will always be accepted. Like Hov.(that’s why he considers passing Wayne the torch)
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Also, why does “I’m Single” say it features Drake, though he’s not in the song.
Weird.
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@They said 7
I’m pretty sure Drake wrote that for Wayne. I think someone dropped the ball and gave him a feature credit instead of a (ghost)writer’s credit.
Also, why does “I’m Single” say it features Drake, though he’s not in the song.
Weird.
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Same thing I wondered. Here’s a clip of him performing it though. Sounds pretty good.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eMySDXlAi6I
^ THAT CLIP LEAD ME TO BELIEVE DRAKE AT LEAST WROTE THE HOOK …AT LEAST
Not sure how most of these lyrics are getting any respect. Most of the supporting comments even end up saying that they are weak but Wayne can get away with it. Can he really? Only if we let him, I guess.
I always thought maybe just maybe Lil wayne stole the melody to Im Single from Big Sean’s Rollin…
maybe not but in this game you never know….i mean they did steal his flow too…im jus sayin
This post just provez how SPOILED we really are…
sooo as far as lil wayne goes i thnk he fell outta favor wit me immediately aftr the cartr3 dropd. i expectd 1 thng n got anothr. i dont thnk i wanna hear ths “ep/album” esp if it was recorded pre-bid.i wanna hear som halfway sobered up, spitn like he got som sens type shit.im a heavy wayne fan since 98 since gotdamn 400 degreez n choppa city nda ghetto.b4 tht nigga had a solo of his own.i would like 2c him step it up not dumb it down.
wayne’ll always have the simile game on lock. that’s what he does best, and when you consider nothing’s ever written, i think most of em are pretty damn impressive.
and y’all tripping with the fly food, bride shoes, 9’2 line
that’s genius. three multisyllabic rhymes, three similes, right in a row. you try that off the top.
He did the red light verse better on “Ignorant Shit.” Just sayin.
There was something ’bout that Bill Gates track that sounded too familiar, but i couldn’t put my finger on. But it samples the same shit Ja & Vita used on We Murderers Baby. It’s funny cos i read that Just Blaze and Tip couldn’t clear the sample for a song from t.i. vs tip.
Also im pretty sure Im Single was originally Drakes, but Wayne asked for it when he heard it. Sounds like 40 on the beat.
Lil Wayne SUCKS
I really don’t understand people if this is what they like
If we are commending Wayne for using the line “caught me like a common cold,” then we have a problem. That’s pretty elementary. If Wayne wants to relegate himself to a punch line rapper, than be my guest. I can’t remember the last time the dude made a song about any topic that had any significant meaning, and that’s why I don’t really listen to him.
Lil Gayne is just a overrated wannabe rapper, he should not even be called a rapper because he doenst even rhyme, he is an embarrasment to the whole genre and has proven that right now that its all about the money, ni99as isnt in it anymore for the love of hiphop because then we would not have WACK ASS Em cees like Lil Gayne,Baby(who the fuck calls himself baby? that is just really really homosexual) Souljah Boy, Gucci or Whacka Flacka Flame.
Lil Gayne just talks about like fuck the world like fuck the world drop it on its like head bla bla yeah I like fuck a bitch, bitch I fucked got nothing better to say but like I fucked a bich on its fucking head!
he just babbles on about NOTHING, got nothing to say or contribute. he is just a trend, in some years these white catholic kids(its proven that the majority are this, just look at the carter documentary) will stop listen top him because they have grown up and developed an actually taste for REAL music. and you think he is using metaphors or similies good? WTF have you been smoking?
do you wanna hear some actuall good ones? well then look up Immortal Technique, to qoute some.
My rhymes are dirty as herpes but harder to catch
Americas beuty is skin deep Im sorry to say
Yeah they said that the success of my music was theoretic
But my revenge is sweet enough to murder diabetics ~ Diabolic(feat. Immortal Technique) – Frontlines
So stop listen to these whack ass rappers and start to listen to some REAL shit like NAS, Vinnie Paz, Jedi Mind Tricks, La Coka Nostra, Snow Goons, Sicknature, Q-Unique, Diabolic or Immortal Technique
Wayne is only acceptable to listen to…
A) in the whip with some chicks. (I’m not gonna be spinnin Illmatic or 36 Chambers with girls fool)
B) in the club
C) party
I dont play lil wayne in the ipod cuz when I actually wanna LISTEN to some shit I’ll throw in some Nas or Mos Def or some of those dope ass GOOD Friday tracks.
He was tryna say “balled” not “ball” on gonorrhea…duhh
Are you kidding me, if your think Wayne was lyrically crazy, check out Em on Almost Famous, he blows Wayne away from the first verse. Thats why I pick Em #1 check it out http://www.killerhiphop.com/eminem-almost-famous-lyrics/
My favorite ones are
“I stuck my dick in the game like a rapist, they call me Slim Roethlisberger.: Talking about the Pitt QB allegations. “I go more berserker than a fed up post office worker.” Talking about the Post office guy that killed some people. And last but not least, ” I come (cum) back like a nut on your spine.” These raw lyrics just leave me speechless, and these are all in the first verse.
The reason “Single” says “feat. Drake” is b/c the song was re-done w/ Drizzy on the hook & was supposed to be on the digital version but they decided to put it on the physical copy. NOT CAUSE DRAKE WROTE IT! HATERS!!
when u fools gonna stop hatin on wayne (young money to da world)
But um yea im like fom New Orleans 2 n um i rap flow is mad crazy n y hate on weezy if he doin his thing