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Back From ‘Vacation,’ Lil Wayne Returns to Reclaim His Perch
UNIONDALE, N.Y. — Just before Lil Wayne, a k a Coach Outlet
Coach online , went to jail last March, he took on a new nickname, Lil
Tunechi. It seemed ungainly at first, awkward sounding and unrevealing. Plus: what rhymes with Tunechi?
Nuisance, stupid, Stooges, sushi, pollution, substitution, movies, Jacuzzi, juicy: all Coach Backpacksthat assonance is in just the first few
seconds of Lil Wayne’s verse on Chris Brown’s “Look at Me Now,” one of his best since Lil Wayne’s release from Rikers Island on
Nov. 4, and a reminder that when he’s so inclined, he can weave words like few Coach Tote Bags.
When he left for jail, he was the most popular rapper in the country and also, at times, the absolute best, a dynamo of intricacy,
exuberance and swagger. But much changed during Lil Wayne’s “eight-month vacation,” as he’s called it. His protégés Drake and
Nicki Minaj took over hip-hop’s center, though neither had the specific manic energy of the boss. And bombast returned to the
genre, in the form of Rick Ross and Waka Flocka Flame.
None of that mattered, though, on Sunday night at Coach
Wallets here when Lil Wayne’s “I Am Still Music” tour arrived for the first of two sold-out shows. For almost two hours Lil
Wayne was vibrant in a performance that was less a show of progress than a reassertion of primacy.
Lil Wayne is the only star of his generation, save Kanye West, who can consistently fill rooms of this size. Before Rikers, he was so
deep into his winning streak that he was on the verge of an experimental phase, as heard on the sometimes noxious rock album
“Rebirth” and the intermittently appealing odds-and-ends collection “I Am Not a Human Being.”
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