If that statement is true he is the best rapper ever. Not buying that statement. Wayne has spit some ish now…I will admit that, love his passion, love the work ethic, love that he wants to be the best; but I can name a few rappers he isn’t better than. He has more commercial success than them, but lyrically he ain’t f’in with them: Joell Ortiz, Saigon, Joe Budden…just to name a few.

“You ain’t gotta tell me I can already smell it
You pussy niggas is eatin peanut butter and Jealous”.

And overexposure? When did that become a bad thing? So you up and coming producers are going to turn down an opportunity to have Wayne spit on your shit because you DON’T want to be heard on every hip hop radio stations across the globe? Oh thats right your in it for the Fame not the Change. I call Bullshit.

Name one MC that you can listen to everyone of their songs all the way through. Your lying to yourself or a “insert rapper / M.C.’s name here” dick rider and theres no telling you nothing anyway. Again, I can’t pigeon hole myself into one type of Hip Hop or rap style, I enjoy it all. I can tell you I don’t understand the appeal of Little Brother but I don’t hate on those that do get it and do enjoy it. Thats your opinion and you should be able to have one. But if you don’t like Wayne or the Game (seems like they get the most backlash on every site but they are always the most popular) then thats on you.

His VMA performance was sick, but I’m sure he would do a completely different set for a crowd of hip hop heads.

Damn it feels good to be back. What up erryone?

Let’s not get it twisted… the reason why I originally put a ban on Lil Wayne on this site is because he’s overexposed. I never said Lil Wayne was not hip hop; although I do think that anyone who uses autotune should be banned from hip hop. I actually used to dig Weezy (and I know a lot of you all did too). I agree with Thomas… Wayne’s got amazing work ethic. and even though he may not have much to say, his voice is an instrument. Face it, he sounds good on a track. When “Lollipop” came out, I couldn’t get that song out of my head.

At any rate, Lil Wayne may not be the hip hop that we necessarily like here on the site, but it doesn’t mean that he is not hip hop.

but at the end of the day…this is kevinnottingham.com…and kev gets to report on whatever he wants to. Don’t like it…take your ass to hiphopdx..LOL

I get tired of hearing him myself, but I can’t front on his worth ethic. He has put out a lot of music (good and bad; depending what side of the fence your on) over the last three years to satisfy his fans. I’m under the impression if he would focus his energy into crafting a good album and cut down on the features/mixtapes he would come up with something amazing. To me Carter 2 is his best work. He was extremely focused on that joint.

I don’t think we can discount him as “not hip-hop” because we don’t like him. That’s what makes this music so great…there is something for everyone.

86/87 is when I really started taking notice of Hip -Hop so I came up with some great music. I feel lucky because I experienced Rakim, BDP, G. Rap, BDK, Doug E Fresh, Slick Rick, Tribe, De La, Dre, Cube, NWA, Eazy, Brand Nubian, Jungle Brothers, etc. I grew up on that boom bap….that knock.

However, the way I feel about my “era” of music there is a 10, 11, 12 year old that thinks Wayne and whomever else is “hip-hop”.

The best thing about Kev’s site is there is a balance between the content on the site. This isn’t a site where Wayne, Jeezy, Piles, Rick Ross, etc is going to get much blog space. They will get a mention here and there, but site (in my opinion) is geared towards the little guy. A place were unsigned artist, underappreciated artist, underrated artist, unknown producers, emcees can come and get their material out to thousands of people on a daily basis.

Since I’ve been coming to this site I have been exposed to some artist that I knew nothing about and/or didn’t care to listen to beyond a cut here and there. But, being exposed to them now…I’m buying up their music.

Now of course as Kev has stated before Jay always will get play here. LOL.

Off topic again. I’m downloading the mixtape now…will listen in the morning.