Lil Wayne is Literally the City of New Orleans

[Le_Regard]

[Le_Regard]

I very much appreciate how the album art goes with this song.  I think the title of this album, "The Drought is Over", is probably at least partly an ironic reference to Hurricane Katrina hitting New Orleans in 2005.

[Julio Juliopolis]

New Orleans can be viewed from a perspective of it's literally Lil' Wayne. I prefer to see it as a swamp some Frenchmen wandered into and said "You know what this place needs? A bunch of jazz artists." and boom, the iconic city was born.

[Le_Regard]

Julio Juliopolis wrote:
New Orleans can be viewed from a perspective of it's literally Lil' Wayne. I prefer to see it as a swamp some Frenchmen wandered into and said "You know what this place needs? A bunch of jazz artists." and boom, the iconic city was born.

I can't disagree with that, but it seems to me like you've left out quite a lot of slavery.



This song here is called "white girl", and it keeps name dropping American pop stars, but also it's very obviously about cocaine.

[Le_Regard]

I have to admit though, I am still very much holding on to an impossible faith that somehow Beyoncé has the power to just fix all of this.

[Le_Regard]

Sorry, that went a bit off topic.  Beyoncé is from Houston, Texas.

My understanding is that the underground rap scene in Houston is particularly monstrous...  but...  well...  Beyoncé.

[Le_Regard]

So if you look this group up it says they're from Seattle.  Maybe that's true now, but I happen to know that at least the main singer is really from Bellingham, WA.

Obviously, being from Bellingham is even worse than being from Seattle, because no one knows where Bellingham is so you just say Seattle all the time, but you know in your heart that you're not even really from Seattle at all.  You're just kind of from nowhere -- but from a nowhere that is closer to Seattle than it is to other places with names someone might recognize.

[Le_Regard]

Similarly, Miley Cyrus is really from Franklin, Tennessee, but pretends to be from Nashville, and currently lives in Los Angeles.



This is a song about a "country girl" getting off a plane in LA for the first time.  Why Jay Z is specially mentioned, I don't know.  But she was basically at home in LA, because the radio plays Jay Z everywhere.  Everywhere is home enough as long as Jay Z is on the radio.

[Julio Juliopolis]

Le_Regard wrote:
Julio Juliopolis wrote:
New Orleans can be viewed from a perspective of it's literally Lil' Wayne. I prefer to see it as a swamp some Frenchmen wandered into and said "You know what this place needs? A bunch of jazz artists." and boom, the iconic city was born.

I can't disagree with that, but it seems to me like you've left out quite a lot of slavery.

Wow! I didn't think anyone would notice my racist intention to hide the history of slavery in that post. Nice job catching me out on it.

[Le_Regard]

Julio Juliopolis wrote:
Le_Regard wrote:
Julio Juliopolis wrote:
New Orleans can be viewed from a perspective of it's literally Lil' Wayne. I prefer to see it as a swamp some Frenchmen wandered into and said "You know what this place needs? A bunch of jazz artists." and boom, the iconic city was born.

I can't disagree with that, but it seems to me like you've left out quite a lot of slavery.

Wow! I didn't think anyone would notice my racist intention to hide the history of slavery in that post. Nice job catching me out on it.

If you read it very carefully you can interpret "jazz artists" in some clever ways.

[Guest]