Lil Wayne Jumping The Shark?
Lil Wayne’s new video, “How to Love,†is his latest and most cynical salvo to crack the top 10 of the pop charts. Watching the video for the song, complete with its reportedly Wayne-penned plot lines presumably ripped from “Reality Bites,” it’s tempting to say that Wayne has finally jumped the shark. After all, there seems to be a certain ironic resemblance to someone water skiing over a lake of sharks to the art of writing a hit single during a nihilistic era bereft of any notions of artistic integrity (at least at the mainstream level). But it’s hard to begrudge Lil Wayne his attempt to slow jam for the ladies. He’s a thug who wants to sell, and I’m sure he will.
