Lil Wayne recently told MTV that he hated his verse on “Yuck!”:

I sound wack as hell on there. He did not tell me that was gonna be the first song on his album. We were just in the studio and, man, I just did that. I was in there just messing around. Please don’t judge me from that — my bar game is way higher than that, man.

Although the verse was riddled with recycled topics and cliche bars–“life is a bitch, mine is a gold digger” can be retired from rapper’s notebooks throughout time–it was fairly run of the mill for post-prison Wayne. The lyrical beast fans came to know and love is a distant memory and now all we have is someone who sounds flat-out uninspired on every song.

So let’s take a look at just a few recent cringe-worthy lyrics and see if his verse on “Yuck!” is the first one that should have had Wayne upset.

And I don’t love them hoes, but don’t fuck up with Wayne, ’cause when it “Waynes” it pours/ no really, I’m on my ‘fuck that bitch’ shit, you used to be the shit, but now you ain’t shit, bitch. -“How to Hate”

We won’t go deep into the trainwreck that was C4, The Smoking Section did a fine job of that back when it was released, but the Wayne/rains play is enough to make any rap fan–or vocabulary fan–sick. Weezy later went on to say that two plus two makes four, but not “four-ever.” Good to know.

There’d be blood everywhere, I got Bloods everywhere/ I’m an alien, I hope you ain’t the Prince of Bel-Air –“Ghoulish”

Wayne’s failed attempt at a Pusha T response was largely scrutinized, mainly for the barrage of nonsensical lyrics. Typically, Weezy fans may be treated to a lot of redundancy, but here we are left scratching our heads wondering what some of the lines even mean. However, when Wayne does make sense on the track, it is frighteningly elementary: “Too many banana clips, I feel like chimps.”

Wish a nigga would, like a tree in this bitch/ and if a leaf fall put some weed in that bitch –“The Motto”

The infectious beat and hook may have let Weezy skate on this record, but his wordplay remained juvenile at best. Add on energizer bunny and Mr. Ed references and everyone was ready for the chorus to come back around.

Perhaps “Yuck!” was the straw that broke the camels back, or maybe it was the only recent verse of his he went back and listened to, but Lil Wayne has been delivering subpar verses for quite a while now. So, no, Wayne, we will not judge you off that verse, however we will judge you off a few years of verses that left our brains hurting.

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