8th
Lil Wayne is finally in jail.
I was questioning my concern over this rapper going to jail: why do I care so much? Why do I care if the rapper who said he’s in the “all black Maybach, I’m sitting in the asshole” is going to jail?
I have an answer, and it’s this:
Lil’ Wayne - Amen
This song is what officially set off my care for Lil’ Wayne. It gives off that feeling of running on empty, enduring too much, but wanting to go on. It was emotionally relatable for me at the time, and it clicked with me in an exact moment: I was in a car, getting emotional over the loss of a friend, as my mom called me the moment after Wayne rasped “And I don’t never wanna see her (my mother) mope for me”. It was realizing that Wayne shared the same thought I had that made me fall for his music and what he had to say.
“Real rap” indeed.


