I haven’t been keeping track but with the remix of Nelly Furtado’s “Maneater” hitting the web today, I think Lil Wayne’s managed to rap over every single song released this year. Seriously, between last December’s Tha Carter II, this summer’s Dedication 2 mixtape, a quasi-bootleg collaborative album with Juelz Santana, a totally legit one with Baby, guest drops on eight official singles (by Wikipedia’s count) and at least a dozen less-than-official guests, and a new mixtape track, freestyle, or internet track every few days, I’m surprised that he isn’t down to rapping over High School Musical beats by now. I’m not generally impressed by prolificacy in and of itself — I see you, Bob Pollard — but this is insane. Lil Wayne probably put out full-length albums this year more often than you bought toothbrushes. The fact that they all land somewhere between “dece” and “goddamn” on the goodness scale makes me think that dude isn’t even real, especially after he kinda beat Jay-Z on his rhyme over “Show Me What You Got.” Not to mention the fact that I listen to him every day even though he has one of the most unpleasant voices I’ve ever heard — and the fact that he can do shit that is supposed to automatically destroy any rapper’s career and still move mass units —
