EXCLUSIVE: Lil Wayne - 6 Foot 7 Foot
Added 2023-04-02 19:14:16 +0000 UTC
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Also worth noting Wayne is the king of non-sequiturs. One bar isn’t always related to the next except in terms of flow or rhyme scheme. It’s hard to piece together the first time!
Chase Cannon
2024-03-17 06:55:24 +0000 UTCAfter watching this and A Milli I think any songs that lack a chorus maybe we should have mandatory breaks to process what we've heard?
Amanda B
2023-09-14 02:16:00 +0000 UTCALSO: understanding different styles; i.e. storytelling vs battle vs punchline
Enlighten_Up
2023-07-29 16:57:13 +0000 UTCIt really is a challenge to grasp rap lyrics if you aren’t accustomed to it. I started listening to rap in middle school and I think it took me till about college to feel like I could follow along to most songs and catch word play in real time. That’s what I love about rap, though! A bar from a song I’ve known for a decade can not slap me in the face until years later! It’s alway a treasure hunt with rap—the more bars you consume and the more life experience you obtain equals a larger frame of reference. It gets easier to detect the self-referential nature of rap music and the intertextuality present in all of rap as a genre. Dad is progressing fast, thanks for providing so much entertainment!
Enlighten_Up
2023-07-29 16:53:54 +0000 UTCThis actually isn’t Cory Gunz first appearance. He was on the original version of A Mili
Kenydell Gaither
2023-04-10 19:59:50 +0000 UTCWell said
Tnulb
2023-04-08 21:27:19 +0000 UTCI like how you broke down the challenges and stages in comprehension listening to ambitious rap lyrics like these! I think I've come a long way since those very first songs on the channel but still light years away from having a firm grasp. But I gotta say the journey is a fun and at times sobering and enlightening.
The FrontRoom
2023-04-08 04:52:58 +0000 UTC"6 foot, 7 foot, 8 foot, bunch!" is a sample from Harry Belafonte's Day-O (The Banana Boat Song). I love this song. it's a series of one-liners, almost like Weezy's a stand-up.
Nathalie
2023-04-06 00:51:10 +0000 UTCWe don't always get it on first listen. A lot of the time that's the artist's intention. They want us to rewind and replay and listen to it multiple times before we really process what they've said. They try to complicate the song by the speed of the flow, using unique metaphors and double and triple entendres. As a listener part of fine tuning your "rap ear" if you will, is "did you catch that?" & how many times did you have to hear it before you got. The more familiar you are with the genre and more specifically, an artist the better you get at picking things up. As a fan of the channel I just appreciate that your dad listens with an open mind and often walks away with a new appreciation for the artist/genre.
Tawanda
2023-04-03 02:47:48 +0000 UTCI feel grabbing the rhythm is elementary school, the theme middle school, the punchlines high school, and advanced wordplay with double and triple meanings college cause the others are firmly structured but like college wordplay has so many levels depending on your education. At this point I would consider your dad a senior in high school about to graduate he has the background and knowledge to catch stuff but he’s not on the college campus yet he’s only took some ap courses. But I think this was good to show him the side of rap that’s maybe less commercial popular but real rap fans love and definitely songs like this are most fun when you do multiple listens and watch yourself catch more every run through. As for this channel it’s a privilege to watch your dad’s pure exploration into a world he didn’t grow up in seeing the growth and appreciation for the art and culture is heart warming don’t listen to the haters some kids call wu tang cringe so ignore it and keep broadening your dads mind.
Brandon Wheeler
2023-04-02 20:55:58 +0000 UTCLol to be fair, back in the day, we had 3 Carters and dozens of mixtapes to get accustomed to Wayne's progression into the ADD poster boy of rap. I'm impressed with Dad's ability to latch on even just a little bit, and me open minded
TommyBoi 3000
2023-04-02 19:54:47 +0000 UTC
