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Lil Wayne Responds to Pusha T’s Exodus 23:1

Posted on May 24th, 2012
by
Karen


Lil Wayne has jumped in the trenches for his protegé’ Drake who appears to be the target of Pusha T’s Exodus 23:1. This isn’t the first time G.O.O.D. Music and Young Money have been at odds. First there was the Drake-Common feud, and then Pusha T fired a freestyle at Drake to Drake’s “Don’t F*** With Me.” Now he has returned with Exodus 23:1. The following lines for were supposedly subliminally shot at Drake.

“Beef is when you hide behind them other ni**as/ But they ain’t killas, they ain’t pulling them triggas/ Fuck ni**as, Contract all fucked up/ I guess that means you all fucked up/ You signed to one ni**a, that’s signed to another ni**a, that’s signed to three ni**as/ Now that’s bad luck/ Damn that shit even the odds now/ You better off selling this hard now/ You call it living out your dreams/ You can’t fly without your wings.”

It didn’t take long for the YMCMB Chief to jump in. And Wayne responded with this tweet.


Straight forward and to the point. Generally speaking, it appears that Drake has been the target for a lot of rap battles, but you can rest easy knowing that he will respond. Maybe we can all anticipate a freestyle in the near future. Or maybe even a track with a feature from Wayne to let us know what’s really G.O.O.D.

0 responses to “Lil Wayne Responds to Pusha T’s Exodus 23:1”

  1. JohnExley says:

    thats hilarious. lil wayne is the freaking man. great mac interview btw karen, ive become a big fan recently

    • Billymadison says:

      Lil Wayne ain’t shit. Punch line, lyric jackin, fake ass blood.

      • JohnExley says:

        music is crazy crazy crazy opinionated, a fan is never really “wrong”, so you have a right to your opinion for sure for sure. That said, you simply cannot argue with the numbers – Lil Wayne is waaayyyyyy more than “ain’t s*it. Punch line, lyric jackin”. He’s gotta be one of the most successful artists of all time, and the team he’s built around him is very impressive as well. 

        Plus, his mixtape career will live on in infamy. Legendary. So many amazing mixtapes. He crossed over, brought a bunch of genres together in his time too. Carter I and II were some of the most fire, creative, lyrically brilliant albums I’ve personally ever heard. And? Carter III sold a mil in week 1… IN 2008. Incredible. 

        Personally, he’s my 2nd favorite artist of all time. Overall, there was a time where he was the single greatest rapper alive… around Carter I and Carter II time, Jay-Z supposedly called him and told him as much. The only rapper more lyrical during his generation has to be Eminem, who in my mind is the most lyrically brilliant artist ever – across any genre. 

        So yeah man I think you absolutely can hate Wayne and all of his success, but you gotta at least admit he’s way more than “ain’t s*it” and that the numbers don’t lie – he’s one of the most successful artists to ever live.

        • TrellieMatrix says:

          i feel what you sayin, BUT do u know why he sold that million in a week in 08? cuz he had no album out, was on over 100 features, had all the mixtapes. so he was buzzin like hell. the he dropped lollipop so of course the whites were gonna eat that up. thats why he sold so much. the thing is…. what happened with im not a human being or rebirth? why did those albums flop as SOON as his buzz and fire died down?

          • JohnExley says:

            Trellie, good stuff. Fare points for sure. The point of selling a lot of records is to build and then capitalize on buzz. I firmly believe the principle that “no matter how amazing your product is, no one will ever beat a path to your door to get it”. You have to figure out how to make people aware of your product. 

            Lil Wayne has been the hardest working man in show business, the entertainment industry as a whole, for like 10 years straight. I’m not talking about just rap, or just music, I’m talking about the entire entertainment industry. He LIVED in the studio, especially during the year or two leading up to Carter III. So you make a brilliant point — he was putting out incredible mixtapes and he made the savvy move of using the success of the mixtapes to get a ton of other artists to feature him. That decision was equally brilliant, because it brought Lil Wayne in front of thousands and thousands and thousands of new potential fans who hadn’t heard of him before. 

            Then, boom – he comes out with Carter III right at the peak of the buzz and cashes in. It worked very well. But in the world of instantaneous communication and almost 100% transparency we’ve lived in since like 2006 or 07 when Twitter, Facebook, and blogs were exploding, his album would have FLOPPED if it wasn’t an amazing product. Period. 

            It’s tricky to say why any of his products since then haven’t done as well, but the metrics you are probably looking at need to expand for one. It’s not just albums sold now, you gotta look at downloads online, etc. Plus, the music industry as a whole imploded from a $45B industry to a $14B industry rapidly – and both of those albums came out towards the end of that plummet. 

            Plus, I Am Not A Human Being was still technically a mixtape or maybe an EP, it was not a complete album on the level of Carter III. So I don’t think you can compare its performance fairly to Carter III. And Rebirth was a dangerous risk of an experiment for Wayne that I respect – he tried to bridge different genres and bring them together. It made sense on paper, but his execution didn’t pan out in the numbers. Frankly, I think Kid Cudi did a much better job of focusing for a long time on how to come out with a rock-ish album, and WZRD is a much better album than Rebirth. 

          • Billymadison says:

            Carter I and Carter II was Ghost Written for this fool. Ghillie the Kid wrote it. The best rapper/poet to EVER live was and forever will be Tupac and if you think otherwise there is seriously something wrong with you. Everybody following the Illuminati bunch while Tupac tried to get that stuff exposed now they’re saying for his exposing them. They creates the hit on him.

          • JohnExley says:

            Lil Wayne is one of the smartest artists in the entire music industry – not to mention hardest working – so I simply cannot see where you can find validity calling him a “fool”. 

            There were some rumors that Gillie Da Kid ghost wrote for Wayne, you are right on that. However, they were rumors: never confirmed, mostly discounted as just that – false rumors. My take? It’s impossible it’s true. Wayne doesn’t write. Ask anyone. Watch any interview. Wayne just records… it takes a lot more ‘start, stop, go back, do it again’ processes for him to get each verse down for a song, but there’s just no way you’re ghost writing for someone who just hangs out in a studio and raps without writing/reading anything. 

            **
            To your 2nd point, on Tupac. I have to be honest with you – I think the argument that he is the best rapper of all time is very, very, very hard to argue with. The easiest argument to make against it is of course to talk about how “best” is opinionated, subjective, and depends on the unique taste of the fan who is arguing – make sense? Otherwise, I stand by you and agree that Tupac is/was probably the best rapper ever. 

            THAT SAID, I think you missed the point – Eminem (in my opinion) is the greatest, most brilliant **lyricist** to ever live. Lyrically, he is more nasty than Tupac. More creative. Makes every single word count. Legacy-wise and the impact Tupac made, I think you can argue that Tupac is the best rapper overall… but Tupac was not more lyrically creative and accomplished than Eminem in my eyes. 

            **
            Lastly, the Illuminati groups were fictitious… overblown tall tales by the media and by crazed fans. I also do not understand why you came out of the complete blue bringing them up. What was the point you are trying to make about them man?

  2. Buggzhadbuggs says:

    G.O.O.D would absolutely eat YMCMB. lil wayne needs to quit. he’s a pop star not a rapper.

    • JohnExley says:

      I really can’t imagine any scenario where G.O.O.D doesn’t go bankrupt trying to compete with YMCMB. I think the only smart move they would make attacking YMCMB is if YMCMB actually *answered back*, making more of the world aware of G.O.O.D. Frankly, I dead honest believe the average music fan has no clue who G.O.O.D is, they’re just not talented enough.

      I think it’s pretty hard to say that YMCMB doesn’t run music… especially if you agree hip hop as a genre runs music, and YMCMB runs hip hop. They are #1, hands down. Just way too many amazing artists. Wayne, Drake, Minaj, what else do you need?

      And I think you’re wrong about Lil Wayne — right now, he’s just doing two things: 1) living the life he missed out on as a kid when he was touring 24/7/365; and 2) thinking like a savvy businessman, finally trying to get on Jay-Z’s level. Every decision he’s made from a branding standpoint since getting out of jail has made his image more monetizable, which is where I think you are confused and call him a “pop star not a rapper”. The ONLY reason he is able to make as much money as he has in his ventures that don’t involve music is SIMPLY BECA– — USE he is at the top of music and *has an amazing product: his raps*. Without that, everything else comes crashing down. 

      In the period of 2005 or so til 2009, there was NO QUESTION he was the best rapper on earth — except for Eminem, who I believe many agree is the most brilliant lyricist to ever live. Now, Lil Wayne isn’t putting out as much music. But to sleep on him would be dangerous. I think “I Am Not A Human Being 2” is going to be like Carter I and Carter II style… so watch for all the hardcore rap type fans to jump allllllll over it.

      • Van Young says:

        Dude chill out on Wayne, he’s not hip hop God. He’s a pop entertainer. I love pop. But this issue is a matter of hip hop and telling lies in songs that ultimately influence young kids everywhere that grow up and eat each other naked in south Florida.

        • JohnExley says:

          Hey Van Young,

          Fair comment – my passion definitely can cloud the points I’m trying to make haha. I need to be more cognizant of that. I’m just such a fan of music, and to me hip hop is the genre that runs music in terms of audience reach and money. 

          Regarding Lil Wayne, I’ve read your comment six times and am completely lost trying to figure out what you’re trying to say haha… but I am very serious. Calling Wayne a “pop entertainer” and denouncing his legendary status in hip hop is like calling Pharell a one-dimensional producer (ignoring his fashion and other profitable ventures). 

          The “telling lies in his songs” is complete nonsense to me. And influencing young kids? I just don’t get it.  

          • Van Young says:

            He has a decent reputation in hip hop, but a killer name in pop music but just because he is the king of pop today doesn’t make his kind of hip hop. To me hip hop is almost a religion, an outlet for social problems in the lower socioeconomic rings of society, but there’s a commercial side and critical side to it. Lil Wayne is from the commercial side. Lil Wayne claims Blood, but he’s been rich since 16. He never moved coke the way Clipse did and yet he got rich selling that image that he moves weight and bangs. But whatever it’s pop music, I’m entertained and so is everyone else. Drake however has nothing to do with that life, except for a dad from Memphis, but has never moved coke (maybe he has now, but that’s lame cause why move coke after you’re a success, sends the wrong message to the kids). I loved Drake because when he first came out he was about bitches and money, which is cool because he’s being honest and himself, but lately he been talking about moving weight and postin up goons in his videos, but that’s not him. He’s Wheelchair Jimmy. It’s not only dishonest, but irresponsible to the kids, which is who this music is for. Pusha T really lives that life. His former manager Tony Gonzales is in prison right now, which I read about in my local Virginia Beach newspaper. They’re really do it. That south Florida comment was just a joke, because of the recent zombie shit goin down.