Monday, December 10, 2007

Lil Wayne, big ego

Some celeb egos are so inflated they run the risk of floating away like an air balloon (propelled by all the hot air they blow out of their asses). Lil Wayne, a 25-year-old who rapped “Back That Azz Up,” had the audacity to compare himself to men who were involved in the Civil Rights movement. XXL magazine asked him how he felt about critics' complaints that his music is over saturating the market (ie, a nice way of saying his music is annoyingly overplayed). "Darling, I don't care what nobody think,” he eloquently replied. “Talk to me like you talk to Martin Luther King or Malcolm X. You're not going to ask him about what he think about what somebody said about him. You... ask him about his greatness, and his greatness only." Right, because King’s words: “I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: ‘We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal,’” are totally on par with what Lil Wayne sings: “Now now now now now after you back it up, then stop then wha-wha-what, drop drop it like its hot.” That comparison is not only deluded, but it insults X and King.

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