The Reckless Hedonist: Lil' Wayne

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The Top One Percenters Playlist Volume 42

You know what it is. Playlist below and tracklist after the jump. As always, new songs have been added to the top of the playlist. Scroll further down to find old playlists. Vol 41 is here and Find all playlists here.

You know what it is. Playlist below and tracklist after the jump. As always, new songs have been added to the top of the playlist. Scroll further down to find old playlists. Vol 38 is here and Find all playlists here.

You know what it is. Playlist below and tracklist after the jump. As always, new songs have been added to the top of the playlist. Scroll further down to find old playlists. Find all playlists here.

I was listening to Rick Ross' "Live Fast, Die Young" a few weeks ago and "I Don't Like" came on next. Then "Christian Dior Denim Flow." Then "Devil in a New Dress" and "Niggas in Paris." And I thought, damn, Kanye had a really crazy 2010 and 2011.

After discussing with a few friends and strengthening my argument, I landed here:

Kanye West's 2010 and 2011 is the greatest 2 year stretch by a music artist in history

I'm *kind of* able to do these with a little bit of regularity, but not as frequently as I want. I had most of these tracks selected a few weeks ago but am only now getting around to putting everything together.

The 25th playlist includes some really amazing work from Takeoff of the Migos ("Infatuation" is probably the most fully realized track I've ever from Migos/Migos members), new/newer artist like Glowie and Kiiara, house/dance artist Robyn (probably best known for "Dancing on my Own" and whose new album, Honey, is up there as one of the best albums of 2018) and amazing new sounds from Icona Pop and Empress Of. Check out the earlier Top One Percenters Playlist here.

Diddy-Dirty Money - Shades (Ft. Lil Wayne, Justin Timberlake, Bilal, and James Fauntleroy)

Ever so often I put my giant collection of music on shuffle just to find some jams I haven't listened to in a while. Last week, Diddy-Dirty Money's "Shades" came on, and I remembered how terribly great that song is. The beat? Dope. The harmony and arrangement? Omg, fantastic. The lyrics? Some of them are vividly descriptive, a la, "Girl if you want, I'll pour a gallon of gasoline on my heard just to light your cigarette". Others, however, are, shall we say, lacking in imaginality, like the whole Justin Timberlake verse, that twice, on two different times, reference X-Men. An example:

Go ahead pretend I’m a drug now let me see you take it / I can read your mind, read your mind, Professor X / We can press rewind, press rewind, VHS

So why am I posting this? Because of the aforementioned harmony and arrangement. The way Balil and James Fauntleroy do the hook is something out of awe. Shit needs to be respected. Shit feels like it's out of the 60s. It also reminds me of The Five Heartbeats. No beat, all vocals. The video is queued up for the last rendition of the hook. Start the video over to hear the whole song.

Emynd x M83 x Lil Wayne x Rick Ross - My Tears Are Becoming John [Mash Up]

This is one of my favorite mash-ups I’ve ever come across. It takes the energy and lyrical ferociousness of Lil’ Wayne’s “John” and throws it overtop the slowly-bubbling-and-buildin-until-it-explodes “My Tears Are Becoming a Sea” by M83 (which you may remember from that Red Bull commercial). I still love working out to this track.

Rappers Talk About Anal Sex [Circa 2004]

It's funny. The overwhelming majority of these rappers are against anal sex. Like vehemently against it. The best pro-anal sex quote comes from Lil' Wayne, right there in the middle. "Ooh! Where I'm from in New Orleans, my pops Baby the Birdman set a trend. He said on his song a long time ago--seven, eight years ago--"Every real nigga fuck they main girl in the ass" That became a trend in New Orleans. If you had a main girl, you had to or she wasn't your main girl." Lolz.

Throwback: "The Man Right There? He Can't Save You". Lil Wayne Threatens Lawyer During Deposition

A little backstory. Wayne was trying to sue Quincy Jones III (no relation to that Quincy Jones) over the Carter Documentary. Wayne didn't like the way he was portrayed so he sued. During the deposition — FOR THE LAWSUIT WHICH LIL' WAYNE FILED — this is how he was acting. Refusing to answer questions, threatening the attorney being nonsensical...the list goes on and on. The funniest thing is the end when Wayne threatens the lawyer twice, and when the lawyer asks what it means the second time around, Wayne just says, "I was talking to myself".

Lil' Wayne ft. Chance The Rapper - You Song

One of the only Wayne tracks I fuck with from the past few years.

Throwback: Kanye West - We Were Once A Fairytale [Short Film]

Back when Kanye made short films and actually released them (cough cough Cruel Summer film), he linked up with director Spike Jonze for this hypnotizing —if incredibly awkward — short film titled We Were Once A Fairytale. "See You In My Nightmares", one of the standout tracks from 808s and Heartbreaks gets major play in this piece. If you don't recall the short, an uber inebriated Kanye obnoxiously trolls people at an upscale bar. AND THEN shit gets weird. But when you watch the clip now it's easy to see Kanye was ahead of the Molly trend because dude is obviously ROLLIN HARD.

The best track off Nicki Minaj's The Pinkprint album is "Truffle Butter" ft. Drake + Lil' Wanye

I'm not a fan of this album but I do fuck with "Truffle Butter" because it's what "Only" should have been — a posse cut without everyone trying to fuck Nicki ("Truffle Butter" samples "What They Say" by Maya Jane Coles.) I also fuck with "Get On Your Knees" with Ariana Grande which was, weirdly enough, co-written by Katy Perry. I'm guessing it's origin started as a track for Perry's Prism album.

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