play on “suicide doors”

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9UYaLjGrgz8

From the Carter Documentary, Lil Wayne is referring to Hollygrove

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=xHN8zGn28BA

Lil Wayne is –of course– a Pussy Monster.

Monsters are usually slumped, it helps their innate monsterness.

This is my version of a Buddhist Koan.

Male and female rap artists are separated in their “spit game” but also in their “physical appearance” game. Both are subject to an erasure of self that occurs in trying to become someone else.

mimics the blackbird’s “cawing” circling the poem back around the poet’s cipher

The “we” here refers in a narrow binary sense to male and female genders and how constructions of beauty differ for these two states. Lil Wayne, I suggest, has a wider latitude in his “look” than a female rap artist who is still expected to look sexually appealing in order to garner commercial success.