This song will penetrate your tympanum with great force, much like a bullet that has been shot into your chest cavity.
Exhibit A: your ear.
Also, for the young gentlemen visiting the city of Los Angeles, take heed: don’t forget to bring condoms for your phallic member as this city has a lot of intercourse.
How do the POV of a rapper who makes “a milli” and a dude from the burbs who never made “a millie” differ?
A milli is a lot of money. You can go on Who Wants to be a Millionaire? Or you can write a song that other famous rappers remix. But if you can’t boast about your money, your car, or your chick… It must means your middle class and got no swag.
Lil’ Wayne making quite a bit of money, at just 28 years old.
Millionaires have diamonds for teeth.
He's got it going on, according to himself.
“A millionaire, I'm a young money millionaire
Tougher than Nigerian hair”
Do you know how tough Nigerian hair is? Me neither.
I wonder what salon they went to...
Asher Roth is 23 years old, and is just now beginning to get his career in gear.
He liked college so much, he wrote a song about it.
Here’s what he’s got to say about makin’ millions.
“A million here, a million there
Yeah you got a mil, but for real dog, nobody cares”
“My criteria compared to your career this isn't fair
I'm a venereal disease like a menstrual bleed”
Ok, so Lil’ Wayne has managed to make the cover of Rolling Stone. Twice. But comparing your musical fame to that of a disease is still just a lil’ gross. Infectious beats indeed.
Asher:
“Heard Asher’s Millie he ain't talking ‘bout me though,
Yes I am, yo, you call yourself a man
But it ain't about the money, it's about what you stand for,
This is for my people who can't afford pampers,
Wake up in the morning got my clothes out the hamper”
Preach, you pamper-advocate. Nothing wrong with doing your own laundry. Weezy just got called out.
Lil' Wayne impersonator trying to coerce a lil' kid to the dark side.
His audience obviously shops at Walmart and believes there’s more to life than money. Ideals are all they can afford. Get it?
Weezy:
“I go by dem goon rules
if you can’t beat ‘em then you pop ‘em,
You can’t man ‘em then you mop ‘em,
You can’t stand ‘em then you drop ‘em,
You pop e’m cuz we pop ‘em like Orville Redenbacher”
Lil’ Wayne plays by gang rules. He’s been known to wear lots of red, to rep’ his gang of choice: the Bloods. Wether or not he’s actually in it, is up for debate.
Hopefully this pic made it into their "College Yearz" photo album.
This is still a form of product placement that someone with money and influence should’t be promoting. And I don’t mean the part about popcorn.
Asher:
“A million dead, a million scarred,
A million bars till' you realize you took it too far,
With your cars and your guns, ha, hardy-har-har”
Asher is getting to the serious stuff now. Why turn on CNN when you can just listen to him rap about gun control?
This is the part where he gets to show off all the cool stuff he’s bought. He’s got a snazzy rolex, he can spit well, and he’s got a nifty firearm. He’s also ill, which is a superior level of sick, if you didn’t know.
Asher:
“Yo they get to the pros and don't do shit,
Like they Reddick,
When I get that check,
I'm gonna take it right to the medic,
Cause these sick kids need it more than I need a necklace”
Gettin’ nifty glocks is not his perogative when it comes to making money off his music. It’s nice to want to give back. Lil’ Wayne has given to charity, specifically to his home of New Orleans. But he also has a grill shinier than my grandmother’s wedding rings.
One has to wonder if they purposefully chose to make both cartoon characters caucasian...
Weezy:
“I do what I do and you do what you can do about it, bitch”
I hope what he’s saying here is: “I’m a lil bit street, and you’re a lil bit urban. We can still be friends.”
Here’s the final word on these words:
“When I wrote my ‘A Milli’ freestyle, that was me listening to 10 years of hip hop and not relating to it at all. Like, damn, I don’t sell coke. Damn, I don’t have cars or 25-inch rims. I don't have guns. I finally got to a point where I had the confidence to do this thing myself, and I was making music for me. And it turns out, a lot of people feel the same way I do.” - Asher Roth
“You, with your words like knives and swords and weapons that you use against me
You have knocked me off my feet again got me feeling like I'm nothing
You, with your voice like nails on a chalkboard, calling me out when I'm wounded
You, pickin' on the weaker man”
I guess knives and swords aren’t weapons. They’re in a category all their own to Taylor Swift. And this guy she’s referring to must have a really high voice if it sounds like nails on a chalkboard. Unless this is another song she wrote when she was 13, and the guy in question is actually a boy hitting puberty.
“Someday I'll be living in a big old city
And all you're ever gonna be is mean
Someday I'll be big enough so you can't hit me
And all you're ever gonna be is mean”
Running away from your problems instead of confronting them? I thought we learned in school that if you have an issue with someone, you sit down and talk it out. OH wait, she was home schooled in high school because she couldn’t handle being bullied by her peers. *cough*coward*cough*
So instead of calling the cops and reporting the guy who's apparently been hitting her, she's going to go live it up in a big ole’ city sometime in the near future when she has managed to gain 100 pounds of muscle to make her large enough to take on a male of our species. And that guy/13-year-old-boy is just going be left with his meanness.
“Why you gotta be so mean?”
Of all the words to choose. Way to keep it simple. I hope she's not actually related to this Swift.
J. Swift knew all about haters.
He'd be rolling in his grave if he heard this song.
“You, with your switching sides and your walk-by lies and your humiliation
You, have pointed out my flaws again as if I don't already see them
I'll walk with my head down trying to block you out 'cause I'll never impress you
I just wanna feel okay again”
You. Yeah, You. Stop making Taylor feel like shit, you. She can do that on her own because she has no self-esteem left after high school kicked it out of her. You.
“I'll bet you got pushed around, somebody made you cold
But the cycle ends right now 'cause you can't lead me down that road
And you don't know what you don't know”
Whoa, she’s getting deep now. The abused become abusers more often that not, but they can also become passive-agressive. One coping strategy is initiating a dominance contest. Emphasis on the “big old city.”
“And I can see you years from now in a bar, talking over a football game
With that same big loud opinion but nobody's listening
Washed up and ranting about the same old bitter things
Drunk and grumbling on about how I can't sing”
How’s this a bad scenario for a guy who doesn’t give a fuck? Sitting in a bar getting drunk and shooting the shit or watching a football game with his buds and shooting the shit, sounds like a decent middle-class life to me. Someone’s trying to justify something here...
“But all you are is mean
All you are is mean and a liar and pathetic and alone in life
And mean, and mean, and mean, and mean”
Sounds a lot like a little kid trying to name-call and failing at it.
“From that sense, I was able to write songs about relationships when I was thirteen but not in relationships." - Taylor Swift, on her high school experience as an outcast.
Taylor, if you read this, I want you to listen to “Perfect” by Pink. Here's a cover for Anti-bullying.
Everyone should learn this from Taylor: You don’t need to run away to a big old city. You need to grab the mic back from Kanye and say: “Bitch, I was talking first.”
Miley Cyrus is making sure everyone knows who’s the hottest girl in the room. (In case you didn’t know, it’s her.) She’s also makin’ mad money thanks to her Disney stint, so obviously she has the right to think she’s talented since she’s famous.
“For those who don't know me, I can get a bit crazy
Have to get my way, 24 hours a day
'Cause I'm hot like that
Every guy everywhere just gives me mad attention
Like I'm under inspection, I always get the 10s
'Cause I'm built like that”
Did she just admit to being a spoiled, self-centered brat? Why yes, she did. I think I detect a hint of vanity as well. She gets the “10s,” but last I checked, she doesn’t play any sports.
“I go through guys like money flyin' out their hands
They try to change me but they realize they can't
And every tomorrow is a day I never planned
If you're gonna be my man, understand”
Did you know that the exchange of money generates about a bajillion bacteria? Do you know how much cocaine has touched your20, 50, and 100 dollar bills? So if guys are like money, and she’s passing them “through her hands...”
I’m not sayin’, I’m just sayin’. Her smile may not be the only thing that’s contagious.
And here’s the chorus:
“I can't be tamed, I can't be saved
I can't be blamed, I can't, can't
I can't be tamed, I can't be changed”
Miley is noMarcia, who was the friendly-cheerleader-next-door.
"Miley, you don't know anything about life."
Miley is more that-rich-girl-who-thinks-she’s-talented-but-by-talented-I-mean-just-rich-enough-to-get-away-with-pretending-to-be-talented. So guys, if she breaks your heart, it’s not her fault. “She’s just bein’ Miley.”
“If there was a question about my intentions,
I'll tell ya
I'm not here to sell ya
Or tell you to go to hell
(I'm not a brat like that)”
Classic case of Disney Star Syndrome. It’s what happens when little kids are Disney-fed. Infected with stardom, thanks to Disney money (which probably have the most diseases), little girls transform into brats with AWDD: Attention Whore Deficit Disorder. And she kinda did just tell you to go to hell.
“Well I'm not a trick you play,
I'm wired a different way
I'm not a mistake,
I'm not a fake,
It's set in my DNA
Don't change me”
Miley may be redundant, but she’s not replica....or is she?
Hmm. But then again, when your dad is known for breakin’ hearts, it really must be in your genetic makeup.
Here’s some words for thought though: does famous equal talented?
