Lil Wayne Drop The World

Despite a generally negative reception for Rebirth,[6] "Drop the World" received more positive reviews. "Drop the World" was arguably the most anticipated song from the album due to its guest feature from Eminem.[7] In a review of the album, NME called the song the only highlight of Rebirth. The article discussed the meaning behind the song, noting that Lil Wayne simply avoids answering a question commonly asked by successful hip hop musicians: "How do you deal with 'real issues' when you've got enough money to buy your old neighborhood a hundred times over?" The magazine notes that, in the song, Lil Wayne avoids commenting on this question, and instead focuses his energy on "being so pissed off you have to get in a spaceship, pick the world up and drop it on some poor girl's 'fucking head.'" Ultimately, the article concludes the song only serves as a "what-could-have-been" demonstration for the album.[2] Writing for Fairfax New Zealand's Stuff.co.nz website, Chris Schulz was less than impressed with "Drop the World", claiming that, even with Eminem, the song was unexceptional.[8]

I started thinking about this song today when the news broke that Chester Bennington of Linkin Park had died, by apparent suicide. Lil Wayne and Linkin Park have never worked together, but I imagine them being mutual fans. If there's an obvious antecedent to the music Lil Wayne made on Rebirth, it's Linkin Park. "Drop the World" could pass for a Linkin Park song on a songwriting level: It has the same blend of tortured-soul angst and anthemic, cathartic reaction to that angst that made songs like "In the End" and "Numb" such massive hits. "I'ma pick the world up and I'ma drop it on your fuckin' head" is pure screaming release, an affirmation of pain and a rejection of it at the same time. And Eminem, a master of these kinds of wrenchingly frank stadium bangers in his own right, offers a mini hook that drives the point even further home:

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Most importantly, though, this song is an ideal one to bring up in these moments of feeling bewildered about bad shit happening because, all analysis aside, it really is a cathartic sentiment. Who doesn't, when shit sucks, want to take the world and drop it on someone's fucking head?

The photo above of workers in an Indian coal mine was taken by Sebastiao Salgado in 1989. If all went well, these three dudes still have a job working in an Indian coal mine 20 years later. They're not psyched to swing picks all day while the earth drops filth on their faces, but they are heartened by the pennies they're able to put on the table when they get home. Apples and oranges, but really, after all this time, are Em and Wayne really going to come with a collabo complaining about how much their lives suck? (PS Wayne sounds a lot like Drake and Rich Boy?)

Lil Wayne:

I got ice in my veins, blood in my eyes

Hate in my heart, love in my mind

I seen nights full of pain, days of the same

You keep the sunshine, save me the rain

I search but never find, hurt but never cry

I work and forever try, but I'm cursed, so never mind

And it's worse, but better times seem further and beyond

The top gets higher the more that I climb

The spot gets smaller, and I get bigger

Tryna get into where I fit in, no room for a nigga

But soon for a nigga it be on, mu'fucka

'Cause all the bullshit, it made me strong, mu'fucka

So I pick the world up and I'ma drop it on your f*ckin' head

Bitch, I'ma pick the world up and I'ma drop it on your fuckin' head

And I could die now, rebirth motherfucker

Hop up in my spaceship and leave Earth, motherfucker

I'm gone

Motherfucker, I'm gone

I know what they don't wanna tell you

Just hope you're heaven-sent, and you're hell-proof

I-I walk up in the world and cut the lights off

And confidence is the stain they can't wipe off

Huh, my word is my pride

But wisdom is bleak, and that's a word from the wise

Served to survive, murdered and bribed

And when it got too heavy I put my burdens aside

Eminem:

It hurts, but I never show this pain you'll never know

If only you could see just how lonely and how cold

And frostbit I've become, my back's against the wall

When push come to shove, I just stand up and scream "Fuck 'em all"

Man, it feels like these walls are closing in

This roof is caving in, up its time to razor-thin

Your days are numbered like pagers and

My book of rhymes, got 'em cookin', boy

This crooked mind of mine got 'em all

Shook and scared to look in my eyes

I stole that fuckin' clock

I took the time and I

Came up from behind

And pretty much snuck up

And butt-fucked this game up

Better be careful when you bring my name up

Fuck this fame, that ain't what

I came to claim but the game

Ain't gonna be the same on the day that I leave it

But I swear one way or another I'ma make these f*ckin' haters believe that

I swear to God, won't spare the rod

I'm a man of my word, so your f*ckin' heads better nod

Or I'ma fuck around in this bitch and roast everybody

Sleep on me, that pillow is where your head'll lie

Permanently, bitch, it's beddy-bye

This world is my Easter egg, yeah, prepare to die

My head is swole, my confidence is up

This stage is my pedestal

I'm unstoppable, incredible

Hope you're trapped in my medicine ball

I could run circles around you so fast your fuckin' head'll spin, dawg

I split your cabbage and your lettuce and olives

I'll fuckin'

this song is about overcoming struggle. He has had a hard time finding his place in this world. Been chastized for being himself but everything he has been through has now made him strong and ready to "pick the world up and drop it on the haters heads :)

The pain of the burdens from previous life is so heavy that he is ready to destroy everything and pick the world up and throw it on your fucking head.

It is about aggression, struggles, vulnerability, existential crisis.

Or whatever but he is gone. I know.

Like all earthly experiences (incarnations), pain is growth. A song of reflections and current pain(s).

Drugs and alcohol mask the damage but we get stuck, the hate in our hearts is past traumas that we have not dealt with (see drugs and alcohol) but we know logically in our minds that love is needed to deal with day to day interactions with the world around us. I believe that he fully understands his position in the game (life) but still holds on to humanity overcoming the shituation that we have got ourselves in. Hop up in my space ship and leave earth... I kind of feel that the players in life may actually have invested in this tech and/or could even own this stuff - low key. The way he spits those lyrics suggest to me that he is snarking those who kicked him down and revealing inside knowledge hidden in a comical line.

It appears to be a good fit for the world Illuminati cyborg's life. Robotized emotions, enlightened knowledge, the singularity, and hating humanity for refusing to be saved by the Illuminati. We are watching.

Its about the 2nd coming of christ. This song is referring to the Messiah whom we all thought was handsome homely humble man, who cant take anymore pain of the worldly life so he comes back with his vengeance. It's a warning basically to tell the world Its Time. Our coming savior is a gangster. G-code

Forethought: the song simply tells a story, a story that one or two individuals out of ten or more comentors had the intelligence to notice. Mathmatically summarizing the songs poetry, and making this truth so easy to see ray Charles could see that shit......

Follow my genius.

Looking at the backside, Fold a 20$bill in half.then fold each half backwards in half. You should have a plane shape. Now observe the portrait.... There is a date, event, and statement. 2020.. Nuclear explosion in center... Across the top you see THEICA formed from the first and last 3 letters of " the united States of America " THEICA? **The Illuminate Controls All**

99% population control is on the agenda. =I know what they don't want to tell you, just hope your heaven sent, or YOUR HELL PROOF. I walk up in the world and CUT THE LIGHTS OFF. Confidence is a STAIN they can't WIPE OFF....

IN other words, the human gene pool has become degenerate and if allowed to continue "evolution" would be like a parasite to a host. Altogether ceasing to exist eventually. Spartans never allowed genetic retardations because it was not beneficial. Its the same concept as breeding pitbulls etc.....so believe logic when I tell you it is inevitable. It is necessary... So hope your heaven sent before the second coming of the lord like. For he shall come from the east like a bright star. With a thunder that will deafen, judgment shall be made. The wicked (non-benificial) shall be cast into Sheol....

I've only broke down the first line of the song and point made.. Think what simple shit you want. Just know they don't take the special ed kids to fill in for the football players. They make more football players.

Yeah,drop the world as we all know is a kinda ironic rather than literal.Lil wayne just narrated the ups and downs he met,hurdles he leapt over,hatred that came his way.That must been challenging.He taught us to keep looking unto the future;never back off.As for Eminem,he crunched and munched the rhymes with his words of encouragement.They made real meaning out of that song

The very beginning, I got Ice in my veins...Meth..I got Blood in my eyes...Thats the Redness the weed provoques...Hate in my Heart is the actual anger he feels...Love in my Mind...That means love is just an idea we have but not real..He is talking about living a hard life and overcoming every obstacle...The top Gets higher the more that I climb, Struggle after struggle but still victorious...When he says he will pick the world up he is saying the World is mine regardless of the BS, I have conquered it, so here let me pick it up and Drop it on your head just to prove it to you...I think he is genius..I mean doesn't he have a PHD in some shit? He smarter than we think.

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