Dwayne Carter also known as Lil Wayne is one of this generations most iconic artist of all time. Between the 2000s and early 2010s Lil Wayne has inspired the music for this generation and upcoming artist in today’s era. With the last album being “Carter V,” many thought the album name “Funeral,” could be a sign of retirement for the legend. For a final project possibly, having 24 songs on an album gives die hard fans one more taste of greatness.
With today’s rap being so different from Wayne’s prime years, his main goal is to make his music sound as close to the current music as possible.
“What the new thing is for me is actually trying to put out music that sounds a little more like today’s music,” he revealed. “What that means for me… is adding hooks. I forget about hooks. I forget ’em. Somebody gotta come in the booth and stop me from rapping, like, ‘This is where you stop it and add a hook.”
Wayne’s inspiration was quite small. Give listeners a style they have got accustomed to with today’s rap style, but with a flavor of Wayne in the picture. With having a young popular artist such as Lil Baby, Wayne states how the collab happened.
“I’m a big Lil Baby fan,” Wayne explains, “It was more of an agreement. I send him one song; he sends me one song.”
Many college students grew up listening to Lil Wayne. For this album to be collaborative with artists that are popular now gives them a different type of joy.
Cabrini Men’s Basketball player Jy Fields, a freshman exercise science and health promotion major, still has Lil Wayne as their favorite rapper.
“His music always gets me in the groove,” Fields said. “I start my day of by listening to him, how hard his music is and how it hits society is crazy. He is still the goat in my opinion.”
When asked about his top songs from the album he listed “I do it,” “Demon” and “Wild Dog” as his top three.
Even his fans couldn’t predict Wayne would have four songs in the billboard top 100. At the age of 37, Wayne is still producing hits for his fans to listen to.
A different side of fans feels like Wayne is trying too hard to be new school and should call it quits.
Daryl Cephus, sophomore business management major, claims to love Lil Wayne, but feels that he should retire.
“Lil Wayne was my idol growing up,” Cephus states. “However, this isn’t his time anymore. Artist such as Drake, Gucci and even Future are the “OG’S” of this era and should be an inspiration to the younger artist trying to make their name in today’s world.” Wayne is the Tupac to artist such as Roddy Rich and Da Baby.”
With one thing certain, Lil Wayne isn’t the same Wayne college students grew up listening to. Songs such as “A Milli” and “Bill Gates” will be remembered as great songs, but some feel like it’s not his time anymore. With over 211 nominations for awards and winning 74 of them, Wayne still feels like he is one of the better artists this era has to offer.
