Many rap/hip hop artists have long been involved in the production of remix's and mashups. Lately, it seems that a lot of the very best artists are only producing songs that have already been heard and simply replacing the lyrics with their own and keeping the same exact beat and chorus. Lil Wayne's most recent work titled "No Ceiling" consists primarily of beats that other artist have worked into head nodding masterpeices with his lyrics. If you listen closley to Lil Wayne's music lately, at the beginning of his songs you will hear the sound of a lighter being ignited and his deep inhilation. This is Wayne's way of quickly inspiring himself and then taking the length of the original song to lyrically murder someone else's beat, almost in an attempt to make the other artists version seem empty and boring. He even often mentions that "your beat's are no longer safe." This is probably not the right thing, however with his one of a kind arrangement of words nobodies complaining. It is also unfortunate that these lyrics that make millions of dollars are followed with the expense of an opiate addiction that will probably cause Weezy to not see 40 years old.
