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"If you haven&amp;#039;t heard of Lil Wayne before, it&amp;#039;s not because he hasn&amp;#039;t been trying. The 25-year-old from New Orleans regularly declares himself the best rapper in the world - and he&amp;#039;s not alone in thinking it. He was voted the &amp;quot;Hottest MC in the Game&amp;quot; in an MTV poll, while Blender magazine dubbed him the &amp;quot;Best Rock Star Alive&amp;quot;. Perhaps buoyed by the hyperbole, his new single &amp;#039;Lollipop&amp;#039; has already reached number one in the States. The pertinent question: is Lil Wayne the saviour of hip-hop? Well, if &amp;#039;Lollipop&amp;#039; is anything to go by, the answer&amp;#039;s a resounding no. Its synthy bleeps, vocoder effects and soft, seductive drums are fairly interesting, but there&amp;#039;s little else to recommend this track. Its lyrics, meanwhile, are crude and uninspired - hasn&amp;#039;t 50 Cent done the lollipop-as-sexual-metaphor thing to death? If Lil Wayne really is the future of hip-hop, it&amp;#039;s a truly worrying time for the genre.  "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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