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PSA: Please, Lil Wayne, put the guitar down

Sep 19, 2008, 08:00 AM | by Simon Vozick-Levinson

Categories: Hell to the no!, Hip-Hop/Rap, Music, Ouch! That was my ear!, PopWatch Petition, Saturday Night Live

Dear Weezy,

I was afraid this would happen as soon as I saw you toting that green guitar on your back during SNL last weekend. "Maybe it's just a prop," I told myself. "A rockstar-chic thing." Nope! You had to go and ruin a perfectly good performance of "Lollipop" by inexplicably whipping out that axe at the end of the song and attempting to play. That "solo" was embarrassing, Wayne. Just look at yourself — starting at 3:35 in the clip below, if you've forgotten. You're just playing two off-key notes over and over again! I could play hotter licks than that, and I have no musical talent whatsoever.

What's worse, you've been doing this for a long time. I haven't forgotten how you used to try playing the exact same awful "riff" during performances of "Leather So Soft" last year. What, you don't have time to practice playing a few new chords? (They have guitar lessons on the Internets now, you know. You can watch them on your bus.) I'm not the only one who's noticed your problem, either — and some of the others aren't using language as nice as mine. So take it from me, Weezy. You're a great rapper. You're an okay singer. But you are not a guitar player. If you really need to get those squealin' guitar urges out, can I recommend Rock Band?

Respectfully,

Your fan Simon


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Tyler Sat, Sep 20, 2008 at 11:17 AM EST

haha, that made me laugh so hard, I think he knows that he sucks at guitar, he just doesn't care. I still love lil wayne even after something that pathetic.

Fri, Sep 19, 2008 at 05:34 PM EST

With that guitar strapped on his back, the dreads, and his mannerisms while singing (grasping the mic so tightly" he kinda reminds of the backstreet Jason Castro

Kathleen Fri, Sep 19, 2008 at 08:14 AM EST

Ha! My boyfriend watched the SNL premiere with me. He's a huge music snob, and is often not very fair when it comes to hip hop or R&B music. So when Dude came out with the guitar, the bf was all "OK, he better at least play that thing and not be using it as some lame sort of prop," and proceeded to go off on a rant about "real musicians." And then he played it. And my boyfriend said "Uh. Nevermind. Prop would have been better."


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