know what else is addictive? MUSIC. i'm glad there's no stigma involved in being an audioholic. and right now, i'm completely hooked on lil wayne. i know how late on the sleazy pathetic bandwagon i am. i've always been late to pick up on popular rap artists. i mean, what is there to like about a mass marketed black icon with a gun in one hand the other around a) money b) alcohol/drugs c) another firearm d) a beautiful woman. at the same time, the moron in me says, what isn't there to like about these idolized rhymers?

the misogyny.
the materialism.
the religion.
the unbelievably moronic fanbase.
not even knowing what hip hop is supposed to mean anymore
(and probably lacking in experience to ever know).

either way.
all those concepts that have been exploited to sell records and sell some sort of image...or express it...whichever side of the art influencing culture debate you take, one fact remains:
lil wayne is crazy.
not fucking gnarls barkley crazy.
charles manson crazy.
lil wayne crazy.
it's scary and ridiculous at the same time.
the beauty of this guy is that you can't take a word of it seriously. i'm not sure if he takes it seriously either. of course, most average people love sex, money, status items, but how many people dedicate a 9 minute track to smoking a blunt and philosophizing about topics ranging from hating al sharpton, his neighbor getting arrested for selling crack resulting in a sex offender moving into the apartment, and speaking on the fact that it's cheaper to send a black youth to college than it is to imprison them? it's amazing the things said on a microphone, even more so when the person has striven their whole life to have the ear of the masses, acquires that, and then this is what they say! i'm not saying it's genius. it's nothing new, just a different voice. strange times with strange people, but i'll raise my pimp chalice to lil wheezy.