(Originally Posted Thursday January 22, 2015)
Song #3 in our 4-part special is one that blows the roof off of any occasion. I love to have this song come on when my younger brother and I are jamming to tunes because we immediately feel the hype and find we’re already bumping to the music. It starts as a kind of sway and then builds into a bounce that becomes an audible “uh” right along with Drake, and then we’re ready to go in.
Song #3 in our 4-part special is one that blows the roof off of any occasion. I love to have this song come on when my younger brother and I are jamming to tunes because we immediately feel the hype and find we’re already bumping to the music. It starts as a kind of sway and then builds into a bounce that becomes an audible “uh” right along with Drake, and then we’re ready to go in.
It’s kind of hard not to go in
considering how much Drake does on this track. Again, as is usual, he comes in
strong, commanding attention with the very first line, and then he sucks you in
as he compounds another and another and a sister and a brother until you’re
just so engulfed you don’t know whether you should be in awe of what he’s
saying or that he actually said it.
“I’m about to change the f***ing game—pass the remote?” Like, how dare he?
Then: “It’s coming too soon/album
on the way/people ask me if I pray/I say, ‘yeah/once in a blue
moon’ …” and “I say heavy metaphors/flow so overweight/I can ‘rap’
around these other youngin’s like a cobra snake/Frostbite Drizzy n**** nobody
as cold as Drake/keep yo’ ass ‘inline’/don’t be try’na roller skate …” It’s all
too much, really! Drake is not even trying to get these dudes with a knockout
punch—he’s literally beating them to death, and all the fans can do is watch!
Then it’s Weezy’s turn to destroy
and kill. And what I like about Weezy on this track is not necessarily ‘what
he’s saying’ but ‘how he says it’—the overall style of his flow. Weezy raps on
different levels, bringing them up and down and back and forth, and he’s always
very playful. Where Drake is very straightforward with his flow and serious
about what he’s saying, even when laughing, Wayne is typically the exact
opposite, sometimes just saying shit to get under your skin. He plays with
words; the meaning of words and the usage of words, and concocts it all so well
so that it garnishes perfect placement and is very entertaining. And then, as
if there were nothing else left to do, he wraps it all up in a blanket for you
to take home and get cozy with and then sends you on your way. These two gentlemen
are so similar and yet so unalike that they completely work when put together.
And as a lover of lyrics and music and words, it’s the type of dynamic that is
dynamic to witness!
So, without further adieu (if you
haven’t already guessed it) our song for today’s post is “Stuntin” which was
originally a part of Lil Wayne and DJ Drama’s mixtape: Dedication 3! With the beat taken from David Banner’s “Get Like Me
(Stuntin is a Habit)” featuring Young Joc, Chris Brown and Jim Jones, it’s
clear Drake and Weezy did enough to catapult this track into something more official
than mere mixtape status. And, though both songs are equally as good, the
collaboration of Drake and Weezy’s version make the hit an instant classic.
DRAKE & LIL WAYNE - STUNTIN'
Chapter 20: Stuntin’. / Written By: Jae Antoinette
KENDRA:
At the club with my girls posted up on some fine black man
who kind of reminds me of Daunte, but I digress. I made sure to wear my best
little number with matching nail-designs and accessories, prepared to do it big
tonight since it is my birthday. I got my girls to book us the entire
upper-level VIP at one of my favourite clubs, and now I plan to dance the night
away, and probably with this dude, while Affion merely watches from below.
That’s
right: I’m stuntin’ on him. I really had no choice. He came up to the steps
declaring his name like he was on some sort of guest list and, without catching
his eye, I had the bouncer politely explain that he is not a part of the group
and will not be allowed access. That’s right: Back to the bottom he goes and back
to my girl I went.
How he even
found out I was coming here is beyond me. I’ve ignored him, and the calls he finally
wants to return, all day and have been thinking of the best way to get him back
for switching up on me … And this is it. No VIP, no booty, and now he’ll have
to watch me be all up on another man. He thought he could just treat me like
anybody? Well now I’m ‘bout to put this body
on somebody else, and we’ll see how he likes that …!
Look at
him. Right now I’m twisting and grinding all over this fellah's crotch while my
skirt rides and my chest sweats … If only he could see what’s beginning to
bulge beneath this guy’s trousers and how the crack of my ass is seducing him
forward. Affion is about to feel it. He thought he knew me but that n****’s
been mistaken and now he’s about to find out just how much …
TO BE CONTINUED ...
**BONUS: ORIGINAL (VIDEO VERSION)**
DAVID BANNER - GET LIKE ME (STUNTIN' IS A HABIT)
(FT. YOUNG JOC & CHRIS BROWN)
(FT. YOUNG JOC & CHRIS BROWN)
(I love the way Young Joc is jamming in this video:D)
Check out the link below for the original-orignal version featuring Jim Jones:
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