![]() He sounds particularly at home atop the jittery sample of “Mahogany.” Buoyed by his old Cash Money colleague Mannie Fresh and Sarcastic Sounds, Wayne raps about…mahogany. “Mahogany” and “Mama Mia” are multi-syllabic, mush-mouthed torrents of internal rhyme, where bad puns bleed into childish punchlines and hooks are mostly an afterthought. The man behind them was harnessing a rare velocity most musicians can never capture.Ī long time has passed since then, but on these two songs, Wayne offers something that honors his past while comfortably existing in the present. His jokes, metaphors, similes, patterns, ad-libs, melodies, screeches, and prolific mind-dumps were vehicles of sheer momentum. Wayne was at his peak back then, regularly offering some of the most captivating run-on sentences in the English language. ![]() As long as “Mahogany” and “Mama Mia” are playing, it’s still 2006, the music industry is crumbling, and within the cinders of Cash Money is a young man who’s ready to prove he’s the very best at the singular thing he does for a living. For 403 seconds near the start of his new album, Lil Wayne makes Funeral feel like a transmission from the past.
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