At his most unhinged, Wayne raps, “Your flow never wet, like Grandma pussy” and immediately follows it up with “I’m always good, like Grandma cookies. The song begins with his characteristic lighter flick he mispronounces a word to fit his rhyme scheme (“Geronimo” gets twisted into “Ja-ran-a-moh”), and by the song’s end he manages to drop a reference to 2008’s Step Brothers and the popular History Channel show Ice Road Truckers. Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha (Im wasted) Ha, ha, ha, ha Ha, rock star lifestyle might dont make it Living life high everyday click wasted Sipping on purple stuff rolling up stanky Wake up in the morning ten oclock dranking Party, party, party, lets all get wasted Shake it for me baby girl, do it butt naked Im so wasted, she so wasted shout the. For over four minutes, Wayne vomits up every defining trait he honed across his prolific mixtape streak in the previous few years. On the horizon was a looming jail term, and across No Ceilings, there’s the knowing tension of a run cut short. Over the beat to Gucci Mane and Plies’ “Wasted,” Wayne performs like a man possessed. In retrospect, “YM Wasted” - the tape’s best moment - feels like a signal of the end that was approaching for Wayne’s peak era. So when Lil Wayne’s 2009 tape No Ceilings arrived to major streaming services (albeit in truncated form), 11 years after its initial release, it came as a welcome surprise. Where most artists’ discographies can be easily found on DSPs like Spotify and Apple Music, Wayne’s defining moments are scattered across mixtape sites like Datpiff or random, fan-uploaded YouTube videos. Gucci Mane has just dropped a remix of his single titled Gucci Mane Wasted (Remix), you can download it right below now. Hit me up the drinky, drinky Gucci Mane shake it, Club night, damn right, Gucci Mane wasted. It was an exciting time like no other, but as a result of this approach, many of his best bars, punchlines, and melodies are clearance nightmares at best and completely lost to time at worse. When streaming was still a dream and physical CD sales were cratering, the New Orleans rapper consumed and re-contextualized everything from the Beatles to Beyoncé. More than any other pop star of the 2000s, Lil Wayne thrived in the chaos left behind by a rapidly changing music industry.
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