April 13, 2009
Dead and Gone

From Rolling Stone’s recent cover story on Lil Wayne:

“…When he says he’s going to play me a song called ‘I Die,’ one of the girls mishears and says, ‘Iodine?’ Wayne cracks up and says, ‘Iodine?’ Then, without pausing, raps, ‘I ate too much shrimp/I got i-o-dine poisoning!’”

Now, naturally RS’s Mark Binelli, who wrote the piece, isn’t a rap expert, and in some ways that curiosity and bemusement makes the piece stronger. Here, it does not. In the previous grafs Binelli expends some energy extolling Wayne’s lyrical virtues and idiosyncratic rhyming methods. The above is an example of his relentless creativity and addiction to rapping. Only, it’s not. Even in death, Pimp C is ignored.