Kanye wants to sing like Akon. Lil Wayne wants to be a rockstar. I’m all for people trying new shit but I don’t like when they devote a whole album to something that I’m not going to like. Kanye’s 808’s and Heartbreaks was stupid. “Heartless” has grown on me but I still would rather a sick K-west beat with a tight flow about bitches and hoes instead of sappy love songs with a synthesized kc and jojo feel.
This new song “Prom Queen” from Lil Wayne is out of the ordinary, he hasn’t done anything like it before. Not even the Kevin Rudolf song because at least he rapped on that. He’s going straight Kobain on us in this new joint. Weezy lost his marbles a while ago and I hope he finds them after he gets this album out of his system. The good thing though is that if he lives long enough I see him having a great concert career down the road. He made so many songs last year and then you throw this new different stuff into the mix where he’s playing a geetar and that makes for great performances. He will be kind of like the rap version of Dave Matthews. The way he has about a million songs and can make a different set every night, you never know what you’re going to get.
I put the live version because the man can perform, just as long as he shows up for the concert.
p.s.-i understand why they branch out, its because they are musicians and want to write music. Its just my personal opinion that they are both better rappers than they are doing the other stuff. I hope that they can both get back to their rapping someday, but I’m pretty sure Kanye is lost forever and is going to try a new genre every album from here on out.
