it's A Shame Wayne Lost His Competitive Spirit

yungflashy

i know alotta niggas didn't agree when Wayne proclaimed "the best rapper alive since the best rapper retired" but you can tell what his mind state was at that time he honestly felt that, Wayne said himself in interviews he doesn't feel he's better than anybody but that's how i feel right now

he went as far as naming a track on C2 "The Best Rapper Alive"

It is Weezy fuckin' baby got these rappers in my stomach
Yumi,
I'm takin' it I ain't asking them for nothing
If you sell a million records we can battle for ya' money



it was a bold gesture he made that has come back to punch him in the face; i don't know what it was back then that made people believe he was the best but the fact that he said the shit and people hopped on board is pretty impressive

but i think the rap game might be a lil diffident if Wayne still had that mind state and hunger he had back then,

imagine a cocky hungry wayne right now

aladdin1978

Personally, I never heard "it" with lil Wayne.

YoungGoldie

Id say from 2002 - 2009 , he was my favorite rapper. U can tell his heart isnt in it, this nigga use to spit ill bar after ill bar............

yungflashy

aladdin1978 wrote: »

aladdin1978 wrote: »

Personally, I never heard "it" with lil Wayne.

i don't see how u can't see it, even if u hate wayne his music from then till now has greatly diminished into nothing

u can here he was trying to prove something on these tracks compared to now

yungflashy

YoungGoldie wrote: »

Id say from 2002 - 2009 , he was my favorite rapper. U can tell his heart isnt in it, this nigga use to spit ill bar after ill bar............

thats why i hate when people say he always been garbage, compared to him now? nah dude was pretty iight

t_m_a_c_f_a_n73088

As trash as I think wayne is now dude was on fire around that time. Every tape,every feature, every performance he was goin in. It's not like he was ever a GREAT lyricist, but he had something to prove. Now I can't fuckin even listen to his guest spots...

MadSirius

Must i remind yall, ain't nothing changing.

MikeydaGawd

Shit happens.

The Recipe

Yeah his run, was a helluva run. I had a CD shop around 05-09, I made alot of money off Wayne tapes easily the top seller, but when he came home this interview excerpt from XXL officially marked the end of his competitive drive.

In a recent interview with XXL, Lil Wayne says that the producers need to step their game up:

“These niggas’ beats been sucking. I’m putting it out there: you producing, what ya’ll doing? Get right, man. Step it up.

As Wayne continued he states that he’s not the best rapper anymore, that he got old, and the new guys are too good:

“This is coming from a rapper. One of the best rappers. I ain’t saying I’m the best no more, because these niggas is too good these days. I got old.”

He added about the production he received:

“But damn, y’all niggas’ beats is terrible! [Chad Ochocinco walks into the room] These niggas’ beats sound like Ochocino made them.”

MikeydaGawd

he lost his competitiveness when he started to fuck with Drake and Nicki

Jaw Breaker

am i the only person that thinks c4 was atleast decent?

The Recipe

Jaw Breaker wrote: »

am i the only person that thinks c4 was atleast decent?

Yep. That shit was ass, easily his worst album. He aint dropped nothing worth listening to since No Ceilings.

PK_TK_187

dude was the best at one point in time
jacking Jay/Nas beats and outdoing them

yungflashy

Jaw Breaker wrote: »

am i the only person that thinks c4 was atleast decent?

Nah

Outside of 'president carter' and the 2nd verse on 'abortion' shyt sounds very uninspiring

ohhhla

@PK_TK_187

When did this happened?

PK_TK_187

he outdid Nas onIf I Ruled The World
Outdid Jay on Show Me What You Got

The Recipe

MikeydaGawd wrote: »

he lost his competitiveness when he started to fuck with Drake and Nicki

Agreed, he got lazy when they blew, every artist turned CEO I have heard speak on having a label dreams of signing artist that exceed their own success.

blackamerica

The problem I always had w/ Wayne back then was he completely swagga jacked Jayz/Dipset. I mean if yall can't see that then you dont know rap music. Its only so much dickridin a rapper can do to another rapper.

MikeydaGawd

from 03 to no ceilings he killed every jay beat that he rapped on.

Stiff

Yeah Wayne used to be a problem..but he ain't spit a dope line since the decade started

A1000MILES

Wayne was never "just aight" til '07...Een me as a southern nigga...I had to go back and listen to old hot boyz tracks to really grasp, like dude was so young spittin crazy shit...And from Squad Up to the Carter 3 leak...He was literally damn near flawless...Nigga killed anything he was on...And I'll call a spade a spade, he not lyrically captivating right na...But back then he was doin it...

representingda203

niggas lying if they say wayne wasn't killing shit D1 and D2 and the drought mixtapes up to part 4 i think, that nigga was beasting

lookdude

he on probation wait till he get back to sippin lean and smokin weed, that was that niggas motivation

n.mcfly

Being gay will do that to you.

32DaysOfInfiniti

I guess, but its for the best.

It wouldnt be good if he had that old competitive spirit and was weak as he is these day, no bueno...

Like Water

I listened to Carter 2 last week and just got irritated. I don't want nor expect him to be the same since artists are supposed to reinvent themselves, but G.Damn, my nigga done fell off like a bad batch of dope.