Lil’ Wayne featuring Drake “She Will”
Intro’ed with a darkened doomsday swirl of a beat and the sounds of a lighter flickering and Wayne inhaling and exhaling, “She Will”, the reported next single off of his The Carter IV kicks off sounding like the man has entered Drake’s internal-thoughts-at-midnight emo territory.
Alas, that’s what the song ends up being, and as much as we want to be instantly annoyed at yet another high profile emcee bypassing the nutso banger for us to drunkenly wild out too for “deep” reflections on loving the ladies while being at the top of one’s game that we can only intensely head nod/ rap along to with serious mugs on while blasting it at high volume in the car, the T-Minus-produced “She Will” comes off a bit too entrancing to be so easily given a “Neeeext!” critical toss-out.
On both verses here, Wayne opens ordering an anonymous groupie to start putting in work (“I tell her ‘Now gon pop that pussy for a real nigga…’”), and either because he has ADHD or the seducing moves of his temporary mate acts as some kind of inspirational spark for his mic skills, his attention completely drifts away from what she’s doing to instead focus on wit-freckled rambles about everything from those ever-circling green-eyed haters to his preference of female (“I like my girl thick, not just kinda fine/ Eat her til she cry, call that “wine and dine”) mixed in with a bunch of profound couplets that he probably just wanted to put on wax somewhere before he somehow forgot their semi-brilliance-ness (“What goes around, comes around like a hula hoop/ Karma is a bitch, well just make sure that bitch is beautiful/ Life on the edge, I’m dangling my feet/ I tried to pay attention but attention paid me”).
…Then he snaps out of his tangents and starts ordering the groupie around again, capping his sixteens with “Now jump up on that dick and do a full split” and making us wish that a female would respond to this song in the role of Groupie Chick and have the rhymes be all about how demanding rappers won’t pay attention to her “talents” because they’re too busy thinking up new rhymes for long-delayed albums.
Also, Drake is here, providing another one of his repetitive semi-sung hooks that’ll be stuck in your head for days.
The Carter IV is (still) due August 29th.
Lil Wayne- She Will (feat. Drake) (DL via Drake)
