Does Lil Wayne have any HIT songs that are HIS?
It’s 2007 and 2008 – and hip hop is nothing without Lil Wayne. Rap needs a leading man, always has. An artist against whom all others are measured. Securing the spot requires a keen combination of skill, marketability, controversy, and luck. That Dwayne “Lil Wayne” Carter would become that man was never a sure thing. As a member of the Hot Boys, he didn’t much stand out, and his early solo career remains easily overlooked. He’s not traditionally handsome. He’s from the South, and it’s been easy, for some fans and critics, to not give the South its due. But Lil Wayne possesses an unquantifiable charisma. And he’s the perfect artist to own this time, when album sales are bunk and only sheer bombast and constant reinvention reign supreme. He’s a symbiote attached to this rapidly changing game – as it moves, he moves. Since the formal announcement of his dominance – his fourth album, Tha Carter (Cash Money, 2004) – no MC has been so fierce, so alluring, so present. His predecessors in grea
