5 Current Rappers To Watch (And 5 To Forget)

2. It's Time To Forget: Lil Wayne

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Nb4EHY_2bI Mixtape Wayne was fierce and hungry. Rich and famous Wayne is tired and quickly destroying his own legacy as he crumbles into a parody of his former self. This tattooed little goblin used to spit fire, even through a mist of codeine, but his decay into creative redundancy has been painful to watch. Fond memories of his early work have been shattered by album after album of lukewarm, disposable hip hop, littered with increasingly nonsensical rhymes and hackneyed metaphors. The cough syrup has surely played a part, but it seems that the diminutive Lil Wayne has simply run out of steam, run out of ideas and is quickly running out of fans. Someone should have coached this whinging this troll and taught him that if you're prepared to indiscriminately sell verses to pointless pop stars, your credibility quickly falls to the wayside - Mr. Carter has spilled his tepid rhymes on so many tracks by so many artists that it's just a matter of time before we're hearing Weezy laying lines on Benylin commercials and whining his way through the Star Spangled Banner at baseball games. With a mentor like Birdmad, it's no surprise - Cash Money Young Money Billionaires become completely irrelevant, its unwieldy acronym now emblazoned exclusively across the caps and T-shirts of homeless people and confirmed douchebags across the globe. As it stands, right now in 2014, the irrefutable truth is that our once-loved dreadlocked wordsmith is officially played out and needs to hang up his tiny little boots while he still has a shred of integrity to hold on to.