Rick Ross, Dem Franchize Boyz, Three 6 Mafia: Wayne's merciless, claiming Southern anthems for himself and spitting Northern verses over them.ДЇor his part, DJ Drama provides another example of why he's killing the mixtape game right now. His confidence and charisma overwhelms, and on this mixtape he's doing more than wresting beats from contemporaries- he's invading their songs and conquering their styles and cadences. He is 23 years old, 11 years in, and working on a level most need more time to reach. Whether you choose to dig is up to you, but Wayne is just beginning his ascent. Wayne is no fool he's built a mountainous persona of myth and some truth and coerces the listener to burrow into it through the tiny holes he's left in the faГ§ade. It only makes the thoughts, emotions, and motivations behind his more objectionable lyrics more explicit and literal, but it's not as if the same conclusions cannot be drawn from his other material. 'So what happened to the levees/ Why wasn't they steady?/ Why wasn't they able to control this?/ I know some folk that live by the levee that keep on tellin' me they heard some explosions/ Same shit happened back with Hurricane Betsy 1965/ I ain't too young to know this/ That was President Johnson/ This is President Bush,' Wayne raps in breathless double-time, folding history, conspiracy, anger, and confusion over each other with style and venom.Дoes this one song, at the end of a mixtape, justify the sex, drugs, and violence of nearly every other? It doesn't mean to. president, the media, New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin, racism, neglect, an embrace of his city and its populace, and a fearsome display of skill and intelligence. It is, at once, a vicious uppercut at the U.S. But, never one to eschew form for function, he mocks the styles of the original song's participants, Ludacris and Field Mob. The track that will convert most naysayers, 'Georgia Bush', borrows the instrumental from Disturbing Tha Peace's state-repping anthem Wayne adds one word to the hook and transforms the hoedown into a stinging protest. He crafted too much, measured his movements instead of letting fly, as he does here. Tha Carter II was one of last year's best hip-hop albums, but its clean lines hemmed Wayne. More than anything Wayne's done, it's evidence of his virtuosity as a rapper and MC, showman and lyricist. In his praise of Wayne's performance on 'The Tonight Show' **earlier this year, Pitchfork's Nick Sylvester wrote, 'it's one of those black-and-white-to-technicolor moments after which, if you still don't believe in Wayne, you're just lying to yourself' Dedication 2 is the aural equivalent.

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