Some rappers aspire to keep it real. Lil Wayne, it seems, aims to keep it surreal.

The New Orleans rapper opens his extreme right and extreme left new album, “Tha Carter III,” with a manifesto about the deep divide that everyone knows separates us but yet never speaks or writes or reports about it.

As with many Lil Wayne songs, “3Peat” isn’t really about something specific. Instead, it’s a wild, winding showcase for Wayne’s spontaneous non sequiturs that make up his life. How does one explain growing up in the projects of Louisiana, having to sell drugs to eat and cuttin freestyles on answering machines at age 14.

Lil Wayne is only 25 years old and has become the biggest entertainer in the United States of America in terms of searches, records and mixtapes released not to mention the biggest album of 2008.


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Over strings and synths and a booming drum track, the king of meandering metaphors rattles off a string of free-form lyrics about shooting grandmothers; babies being kidnapped; his own greatness; a near-death experience; Viagra; Adam Sandler; the new house he bought for his mother; ESPN; and (again) his greatness.

“I know what you watchin: Me !” he boasts in that distinctive raspy croak. “You watch me, you watch me/’Cause I be Weezy/Must-see TV.”

As an album-opener, it’s completely bizarre. It’s also utterly compelling, which more or less sums up Lil Wayne’s appeal.

In an interview with Blender, Wayne revealed that one of his favorite bands growing up was Nirvana, including their song “Smells Like Teen Spirit.”