The F Ain’t For Fear

Lil Wayne “Nightmares of the Bottom”

I find Lil Wayne most entertaining when he’s spilling random rhymes over a booming beat, but this introspective, gentle track suits him well. He’s doing some soul-searching here, but I don’t think he finds much – he doesn’t dig too deep into his fears of losing what he has, and a lot of the lines are fairly boilerplate. There’s more in the sound of his voice – a little resigned, a little bemused. He sounds friendly, like he’s genuinely confiding with the listener. Even still, the twinkling piano figure carries a lot of the emotional weight, as if he’s leaning on mood to project a feeling where his words fail him. Which is fair enough, because that’s why we have music in the first place.

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