After all, what was there not to like? He was funny, he was charming, he represented our sexual and id-driven desires, and was never too hung up about his image or public persona. It was cool to think Lil Wayne was great, and so we did. It was that lack of expectation that incensed our desire to hear anything new from Wayne, because after consistently proving us right that his new music would be awesome, we collectively agreed that everything he did was awesome. He was so goddamn entertaining that we hung on every word and waited for every new feature, single, or mixtape, because we genuinely didn't know what would come out of him next.
Even on albums then, Wayne was a different Wayne - he was hungry, he was versatile, he was spastic. When we think about Mixtape Weezy, these are the years we reminisce on.
#Lil wayne no worries slowed series#
From 2004-2008, Wayne went through a renaissance of productivity - in the midst of working on and releasing a trifecta of stellar studio albums - Tha Carter series - he worked tirelessly on features for just about every major artist on the radio and put out eight mixtapes (including Da Drought and Dedication series). For standing your ground against your illness and showing others that you can overcome it.That's not to say Weezy didn't work for it, though.
It taught me the path to transform my own life. The hidden message hear, is so courageous and powerful. And only by working together and talking it out can you become one with yourself and truly heal. This time we embraced our long thought of enemy or hindrance as our friend. Perfect is itself an unattainable standard to hold yourself to. To repair a fractured mind.Īnd the painting.which by all accounts used 3 colors and should have been a mess. To heal.īut each instance becomes a battle in the war.Īnd the eventual rebirth signifies the eventual understanding that is absolutely necessary to recover. Having viewed the subconscious as an enemy, a parasite for so long, it's going to take work. Now, transitioning from perspective of enemy to friend, creates an entirely new way to view life and paradoxically enables you to heal and Regain control. Your subconscious overcompensated so much in your life that it can't find the shut off button and even minute issues cause the over stressed fight or flight response.Īnd you do unintentionally cause hurt relationships. In borderline personality disorder, for example, It takes so much courage to stand and fight. Wars are bloody, red, deadly, black, and force a rebirth, white. This is also a symbolic representation of the war going on inside the mind. My greatest desire is to feature or be featured by Bruno mars and Wayne. This is and would remain my favorite song, it teaches a lot. Throughout the song the 'i' and 'you' are used by both lil' Wayne and Bruno mars to refer to one entity. NOTE that the song divided the person into two, the physical person referred to as 'i' and the inner personality or the soul referred to as 'you'. Literally it means, he having told himself to trust and move with people is now back to appreciate himself after being failed and disappointed by the people he was moving with. "So why are we here talking to each other again": Having been disappointed and dumped by friends and acquaintance, he embraced himself.
So put together, He thought people would understand the man he was so he trusted people and accepted friends but they didn't. "You told me that they can understand the man I am": the term 'you' here means himself( remember he is still talking to his reflection on the mirror) and 'they' means people\friends.
"Through my rise and fall, you've been my only friend": He is trying to say that although people would come to you during your rise and leave you during your fall, yourself(the inner person) will stick to you during your ups and downs. "Here we are again": He acknowledges the image in the mirror as himself( which is correct) "Mirror on the wall": He is talking about himself(which he sees on the mirror) Now let me explain the song from Bruno mars' perspective::: It's quite inappropriate to only look at it from one point of view whereas we should have two perspectives to judge from,cuz the song features Bruno mars.