Days And Days (2013)
You're gonna love my nuts.
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I milk this shit like cattle
That's my word like Scrabble
And yo main girl is a ho
I go Wayne's World in her throat
She swallow so many nuts
You fuck around find a squirrel in her throat
I go tapeworm in that ho
Let my snake squirm in that ho
Nigga we take turns in that ho
These niggas so green they glow
I am the best thing since wet pussy
On my private jet with my chef cookin
So big-headed my neck crooked
My niggas foul when the ref lookin
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The cut is a little awkward, but I think it helps illustrate some particulars of Wayne's style and demonstrates the value of IANAHB II and the IANAHB series.
To the first point, Wayne seems to have some kind of innate ability to become part of whatever beat he's working on. Because he doesn't write anything down, his flow isn't dictated by his lyrics. What I suspect happens is the beat dictates his flow, and that flow dictates what he'll talk about and how. In the case of Days and Days, you can hear the beat going through 3 or 4 different stages, and I tried to break up the lyrics above accordingly. The thing I want to highlight is how he focuses on one theme for that entire middle segment of the beat. He goes deeper and deeper on the wordplay and imagery until the beat almost forces him to change it up. Sometimes I like to think of this kind of thing as Wayne being a conduit for the beat and his purpose is to give it a voice.
I'm still working on articulating exactly what it is that makes IANAHB feel different from Wayne's other work, but I'm starting to think that feeling of "different" is the whole point. I think the series is a vehicle for Wayne to tap into the most otherworldly and unique aspects of his creativty, and IANAHB II added a darker and more menacing spin to it.
This could very well all be in my imagination, but it lets me build my own hype for IANAHB III, and at this rate I'm expecting it to be the thing SpaceX uses to get people to Mars.
I also wanted to point out the genius and hilarity of some of the lines, but I don't want to run into length limits again. I was curious though if the "best thing" line is a Wayne original, and after googling the line I think I can safely confirm it.