Wasted
2009 · Young Money · New Orleans, Louisiana
- Artist
- Lil Wayne
- Title
- Wasted
- Release
- No Ceilings
- Year
- 2009
- Label
- Young Money
- Format
- Mixtape
- Language
- English
- Country
- New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
- Genre
- Hip Hop · Southern Hip Hop · Gangsta Rap
- Primary theme
- Post-War
Annotation — Rap / Hip Hop Songs
Lil Wayne, influential Southern Hip Hop / Gangsta Rap artist, born Dwayne Michael Carter, Jr. on 27 September 1982 in New Orleans, Louisiana, USA, said to have sold 120m+ records worldwide. He frequently referenced the Vietnam War, as a metaphor for violence, including: "Blood Line" (2002), "Problem Solver" (2006) (with Birdman and DJ Khaled), "Wasted" (2009), "Thinking Bout You" (2015), "Bing James" (2020) (with Jay Rock), and "Wild Dogs" (2020). In the song "Wasted" (Young Money Entertainment), Lil Wayne again returned to the Vietnam violence metaphor, used here to describe always carrying a weapon: "I'm always strapped—Vietnam, nigga".
Annotation by Justin A. Brummer
Lyrics
English: I save the world second, and I get high first / I'm a mind freak, check my time sheet / Bitch, I bring the noise where the lions sleep / Your flow never wet, like Grandma pussy / I'm always good, like Grandma cookies / Yeah, call me the spleen or the spine fixer / It's going down like the Catalina Wine Mixer / She going down like the hands on my time-ticker / I'm always strapped—Vietnam, nigga / We are fine, nigga, like Amber Rose / We ball, nigga, like Jalen Rose / Better tell them hoes, I got a million flows / Label me the hardest nigga in civilian clothes / Young Money, baby, and the building grows / As we look up—where did the ceilings go?
About the artist
Lil Wayne, influential Southern Hip Hop / Gangsta Rap artist, born Dwayne Michael Carter, Jr. on 27 September 1982 in New Orleans, Louisiana, USA, said to have sold 120m+ records worldwide. He frequently referenced the Vietnam War, as a metaphor for violence, including: "Blood Line" (2002), "Problem Solver" (2006) (with Birdman and DJ Khaled ), "Wasted" (2009), "Thinking Bout You" (2015), "Bing J.