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Originally Posted by demonrail666
Just before this new style dropped I worked for a rap label and the genre did feel like it was in a bit of a rut at that time. I was mostly listening to stuff like Cage, RA the Rugged Man, Necro, Jedi Mind Tricks, the Eastern Conf. Records stuff, while Eminem was still probably the big name in the mainstream, maybe even 50 Cent, so I can see why Lil Wayne was seen as a breath of fresh air, and he obviously was, but something about it just never chimed with me.
Then, later, when I started hearing stuff like Lil Xan, Pump, Uzi Vert, I was just ...  |
Hmm. I’m not sure I see the relationship between golden era Wayne and those artists, but I never worked for a rap label, so maybe I’m dumb.
All I know is that for a few years, Lil Wayne tore up the mainstream, and released a series of mixtapes that are better than a lot of the albums you hear from the VERY short list of other rappers who have seen that level of success (like, 1-million-actual-albums-sold-in-a-week-week-level success... eg Kanye, Drake deepening on your definition of “albums sold,” and maybe 2pac and Biggie, can’t remember. Maybe Jay once or twice, without the assistance of companies buying 1 million “equivalent units” in streaming exclusivity to cheat the system).
Anywho, I’m not a Wayne Stan (god I hate that word), but for a while he was pretty much king shit.