Weezy Is Our Generation’s Greatest Political Thinker
I hardly want to spend all day criticizing Adam Serwer’s Hip-Hop and politics piece, but there’s one assertion that is just glaringly incorrect: that Lil Wayne is “cheerfully apolitical.” The guy sure is cheerful, except for the few rather morbid and glum tracks that pepper TC3, but he’s clearfully one of the most profound political commentators of this, or any, time. Just read, and prepare to be enlightened:
Barack, I guess, but I can’t make a real opinion. I ain’t watching no debates. I just want my people to understand that Hillary and Barack are not running for president–they running to be able to run for president. There’s a Republican party, too–we ain’t about to win, fool! A woman or a black man versus an old white dude? Fcuk no! They gonna be like, This black-ass nigga trying to come in my Oval Office? Fcuuuuuk no.The world about to end in 2012 anyway. ‘Cause the Mayans made calendars, and they stop at 2012. I got encyclopedias on the bus. The world is gonna end as we know it. You can see it already. A planet doesn’t exist: There’s no more Pluto. Planes are flying into buildings–and not just the Twin Towers, but dudes who play baseball are flying planes into buildings. Mosquitoes bite you and you die. And a black man and a woman are running for president!
The only other political commentary that can even compare is DMX’s befuddled reaction to the fact that a man named “Barack Obama” was even running for president.
