THE NORTH RIDING PROJECT

Paper chasin’, tell that paper, ‘Look, I’m right behind ya’

Bitch, real G’s move in silence like lasagna

People say I’m borderline crazy, sorta, kinda

Woman of my dreams,  I don’t sleep, so I can’t find her

Lil Wayne/6 Foot 7 Foot

What Lil Wayne fans love most of all about Lil Wayne is the way his mind creates a wild free-associative map of references that never come up anywhere else in music. Just the fact that Lil Wayne would bring lasagna into the song is kind of wacky; the fact that he would make a joke about the way lasagna is spelled is pretty crazy; the fact that the joke is a riff on the statement you previously heard and dismissed as run of the mill is fucking galaxy-brain, mind-expanding, consciousness-altering rewiring of what is possible with the English language.

Kramer/Vice, 2017