And, opposed to the typical rap flame-out trajectory, Wayne got better- and stranger- with each album. While everyone else on the day's bill- from Alicia Keys to Kanye West- filled their shortened, festival-style sets with hits and finely-tailored theatrics, the audience's most anticipated act took the opportunity get his Guitar for Dummies on Lil Wayne is, as he likes to say, "different." Always has been.Įarmarked as a gifted elementary school student in New Orleans, he became the token prodigy of his hometown's Cash Money clique at the age of 16, spitting pipsqueak gangsterisms over skittering Mannie Fresh beats. "That's not a chord or anything!" Still, she recorded Wayne in all his tatted-up Tracy Chapman glory for YouTube posterity just the same. "Is he really playing the guitar right now?" giggled a teenage girl. The fact was evident at this year's Summer Jam, when he spent two and a half interminable minutes noodling and crooning all by his lonesome while a stadium full of New York's most devout hip-hop fans looked on bewildered.
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