The Dominance of Weezy

Between 2006-2008 Lil Wayne dominated not just hip-hop, but the entire music industry. I'm no fan of he's music, but I'd be a fool not to recognize what he did during that time.

He was still very much relevant beyond 2008 with various features, mixtapes and that atrocious attempt at a rock album, Rebirth (not even an Eminem feature saved that album).

I'm going to be honest here, before I heard Lollipop I'd never even heard of Lil Wayne. No joke. I'd never heard of the rapper named Lil Wayne before Lollipop.

He was a new artist as far as I was concerned and wasn't that bad at all; at first. Then I ruined everything by discovering that he has been around since the 90's.

When Lollipop became the biggest song of 2008 older Lil Wayne songs started emerging from he's previous albums/mixtapes. These were songs I had never heard before or never bothered to take note of.

Then my synesthesia kicked in. When I started hearing that he's old music sounded the same as he's new music, in terms of subject matter, I started enjoying he's music less and less.

I enjoyed none of he's future releases. I have never even bothered listening to any of he's albums fully. It's been almost a decade and I've never heard Tha Carter III from start to finish (it went platinum in its first week).

I don't hate Lil Wayne's music (unlike Michael Jackson's music), but I just don't enjoy it as much as I initially did when I first heard it.

He's material is far too recycled and I know that there are artists I constantly praise that have done the same like Eminem and Logic, but in their music there's growth as well.

Lil Wayne's music feels like it's been stagnant since before Lollipop. I'd still listen to a few of he's songs here and there, but my synesthesia just doesn't react to it like it used to.

PS. I don't think that Dave Grohl would have even been able to save Rebirth (the songs I've heard from that album still haunt me).