{"id":2445226,"date":"2019-06-12T08:06:50","date_gmt":"2019-06-12T14:06:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=846367"},"modified":"2019-06-12T08:06:50","modified_gmt":"2019-06-12T14:06:50","slug":"song-you-need-to-know-tyga-lightskin-lil-wayne","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/music-news\/song-you-need-to-know-tyga-lightskin-lil-wayne\/","title":{"rendered":"Song You Need To Know: Tyga, \u2018Lightskin Lil Wayne\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\u201cLightskin Lil Wayne\u201d should be blasphemous. 2019 Tyga<\/a> is a streaming titan, an entertaining maker of booty jams and an adept deployer of an innocuous sample<\/a>, but he\u2019s no Weezy F. Baby. In terms of lyrical dexterity or formal innovation, Tyga has yet to match the artistic heights of his Young Money mentor \u2014 it also doesn\u2019t feel like he\u2019s all that interested in trying. Nevertheless, on the second song off Tyga\u2019s new album, Legendary<\/em>, he makes a case that he\u2019s the successor to Lil Wayne. It\u2019s a stretch, but the song, against all odds, works.<\/p>\n

Brisk, confident and hypnotic, \u201cLightskin Lil Wayne\u201d feels like a sonic culmination for Tyga. For two minutes and thirty seconds, he carries out a boast-filled barrage. He owns the Jay-Z of watches. Women call him Mack Maine, because of his \u201cMack game.\u201d There are champagne showers for all. The bars are silly, obviously, but the end product is triumphant. For all the mythologizing of Wayne\u2019s mixtape peak, at the end of the day he was an extremely horny man with a penchant for picking superb beats. In that way, and in that way only, Tyga can claim to be Weezy F. and the F is for fair-skinned.<\/p>\n

Lil Wayne is almost a decade removed from his creative and commercial apex. Young Money, the house Weezy built, is a husk of its former self, a place where \u201cBedrock\u201d echoes for eternity. In 2018, Nicki Minaj\u2019s Queen<\/em> struggled to find its place on the charts<\/a>, while Lil Wayne\u2019s Tha Carter V,<\/em> after years of the record being stuck in label limbo, felt like a largely symbolic victory. Behind Drake, Tyga is arguably the most culturally relevant YMCMB artist. On \u201cLightskin Lil Wayne,\u201d it\u2019s Tyga\u2019s talent for spotting and riding waves that sticks out, more than the meteoric talent he\u2019s comparing himself to.<\/p>\n