A Year of Lil Wayne: Lil Wayne and Adele

Day 146: "Sorry 4 the Wait" – Sorry 4 The Wait , 2011

Last night, the world melted down as Adele won the three biggest Grammy awards—Song of the Year, Record of the Year, and Album of the Year—over Beyoncé, who everyone on Earth other than the majority of Grammy voters agreed made a better album. Adele has since become the unfortunate scapegoat for a larger discussion about representation due to forces more or less entirely out of her hands. She's also handled things about as gracefully as she could given the circumstances, so no shots at Adele herself. Look, we all agree with Frank Ocean that the Grammys could stand to do better. We also still continue to ask: Who is Grammy?

But Adele continues to be wildly lauded, and, since I am never one to pass up a Lil Wayne connection, now seems like a time to point out that Lil Wayne has rapped over an Adele song—just one more thread connecting A and Bey (also perhaps the only thread connecting Adele and Hurricane Chris). The song in question is "Rolling in the Deep" (a better song than the one that won the most recent G****ys), and it became the title track for Wayne's Sorry 4 The Wait. At the risk of sounding British about it, the rapping is quite good. It's also a good message for a day in which some fans of popular music might be feeling confused:

Why is this passage good? Let's think about it line by line:

1. We can probably all agree that we could use more Lil Wayne in this and every occasion.

2. Ah, the human condition, fraught with ups and downs.

3. Even the best of our ambitions are sometimes hampered by human limitations. Also this is a weed pun because, wait for it:

4. Wayne is super high! And he left his love behind, which is sad. Life is truly a series of defeats, many of them self-inflicted by our own shortsightedness. This all could have been prevented if Wayne hadn't gotten "high as a bitch"—but let's keep it all in perspective. It's somewhere between joy and pain. Life is also a series of gray areas. Nothing is as simple as it seems.

Damn, so Lil Wayne really explored what it means to be human while rapping over an Adele beat. This doesn't really prove anything, but maybe you, too, can enjoy these raps.

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