The 10 Worst Lil Wayne Songs

Lil Wayne was once the Best Rapper Alive, but he's made some awful songs.

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With Lil Wayne and Drake on the road with their "Street Fighter" inspired "Drake Vs. Lil' Wayne" tour, fans can expect to hear Weezy rock hit after hit. But not all of Wayne's songs have been worthy of praise. In fact, after peaking in 2008 with Tha Carter III, most of Wayne's musical output can be best summarized as average.

He still had a lot of great moments along the way (the glory of "Rich As Fuck," the frenetic energy of "John," the "I can rap my ass when I want to" attitude that runs through No Ceilings, and his current resurgence with songs like "Moment," "Believe Me," and "D'Usse") but a lot of forgettable ones and a few terrible ones. 

Either way, Wayne has never truly found his way back to his mid-2000s peak were he'd just black out on any beat you gave him. And his not so genius idea to tackle the rock industry in 2010 didn't help in his attempts to climb back to the top of the mountain. We take a codeine-free look at the 10 Worst Lil Wayne songs. On second thought, you might need some syrup to enjoy these tracks.

Written by brokencool (@brokencool)

11. Lil Wayne “How To Love” (2011)

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Album: Tha Carter IV

Producer: Detail, The Drummahz

If you were in a room of Lil' Wayne fans…actually, scratch that. If you were in a room with Lil Wayne's family members, you would be hard pressed to find one person that would say “I love Lil' Wayne's singing.” Yet, that's exactly what Wayne did on “How To Love”, the third single released from his 2011 album, Tha Carter IV. If Wayne really loves the fans, he shouldn't be singing, just like he shouldn't be rocking. The song drowns in Auto-Tune and studio trickery to cover up for the lack of any real musical note held. In an interview, Wayne said this song was inspired by 2Pac's “Keep Ya Head Up, you know, the song where 2Pac rapped and featured a real singer to handle the vocals. And yet, none of that stopped this from hit No. 5 on Billboard and making it one of Wayne's biggest solo hits. 

10. Lil Wayne f/ Bruno Mars “Mirror” (2011)

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Album: Tha Carter IV

Producer: Ramon “REO” Owens, The Smeezingtons

Lil' Wayne and Bruno Mars go together like peanut butter and relish (read: not well). “Mirror” appears on the Deluxe Edition of Wayne's Tha Carter IV. The song was a commercial success, selling over a million singles but the combination of Mars and Wayne sound forced and pieced together. The song focuses on Wayne spitting back at his reflection, questioning past choices and life in general.

Cool idea but the lyrics are surface level at best and don't dig into that deeply personal Wayne heard on mixtape cuts like “All By Myself.” At the end of the song, Wayne spits “So I'm starting with the man in the…MJ taught me that.” Too bad MJ wasn't around to teach him a thing or two about effective collaborations as well.

9. Lil Wayne “One Way Trip” (2010)

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Album: Rebirth

Producer: Infamous

At least Lil Wayne isn't the worst part of this song. That honor goes to Cash Money's first "rock" artist Kevin Rudolf, who's nonsensical refrain of “I'm falling down a landslide, on a one way trip with you” and struggle singing do nothing to compliment such classic Wayne lines as “Suck me like soup and I'mma eat you like surf and turf" and “Suck me like soup?” Does he mean sip? Regardless, this song is a one way trip directly to the trash bin.  

8. Lil Wanye f/ Gudda Gudda “She's A Ryder” (2008)

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Album: Dedication 3

Producer: Midnight Black

After killing the game for years, Dedication 3 the moment we realized Wayne's unprecedented​ run had to come to an end. The third installment in his Dedication series with DJ Drama was almost entirely forgettable, a far cry from the classic first two entries in the series. It's so forgettable that seriously, without looking at a tracklisting, can you remember a song from this mixtape? Exactly.

There was a lot of bad here but “She's A Ryder” with Gudda Gudda was the worst moment. While Gudda's verse was okay (for a Gudda Gudda verse anyway), Wayne's auto-tune drenched vocals sound like studio outtakes. Before this song came out, Wayne had spent the last few years experimenting with Auto-Tune to great effect and creating some of his most inventive material. But "She's A Ryder" made it obvious that Wayne was running out of ideas and his Auto-Tune experiments were about as tired as the “my chick is a ryder” theme.  

7. Lil Wayne f/ Sizzla & T-Streets “The Only Reason” (2008)

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Before he butchered rock music with Rebirth, Lil Wayne managed to briefly damage the reggae music as well with his Sizzla & T-Streets assisted 2008 cut “The Only Reason.” The song features Wayne rapping in the worst Patois accent since Kofi Kingston's original WWE gimmick along with a forgettable guest appearance by Young Money's T-Streets. Sizzla adds some flavor to the track but the awful production makes this a soundclash that does not require air horns, gunfingas or fire.

6. Lil Wayne “The Price Is Wrong” (2010)

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Album: Rebirth

Producer: Infamous

It would seem Lil Wayne was listening to a little too much bad pop-punk music when he made “The Price Is Wrong/” This song can be best characterized as noise with words. How bad are the lyrics? Here's a sample: “Now she going out with some nigga name Michael/Okay rifle, yeah yeah yeah yeah yah yah/We used to be the nastiest couple on the school yard/Back yard, your yard, yeah yeah yeah yeah yah yah.” No, no, no. If you make it past the 1:15 mark of this song, you will be rewarded in the after-life with a pot of gold and a copy of Wheatus' "Teenage Dirtbag"—which is actually kind of a great pop-punk song.

5. Lil Wayne “On Fire” (2010)

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Album: Rebirth

Producer: Cool & Dre

Amy Holland's “She's On Fire” will forever be tied to the cinematic classic Scarface. It will also forever be tied to one of the worst Lil' Wayne songs ever made. The song is an auto-tuned mess that does anything but rock as Wayne gargles such ridiculousness as, “She's hot as hell; let's call her Helen/Fireman to her rescue like 9-11.” What would Tony Montana have to say about this song? Probably by saying, “You wanna waste my time?"

4. Lil Wayne “Hello” (2013)

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Album: I Am Not A Human Being 2

Producer: Mike Banger

“Hello” appears Wanye's I Am Not A Human Being II—or as I like to call it, I Am Not A Good Album II. What's so weird about it is that IANAHB2 is basically a stopgap release; Wayne wasn't ready to put out Tha Carter V but felt the need to put out an album for whatever reason. Much of the album is spent on Wayne trying to prove the past is behind him and he's still got his mojo. But for every step forward like "Love Me" there's 25 steps backward like "Hello."  

The song finds Wayne strangely trying to move himself into the “screamo” rock genre but instead toiling somewhere between a high school garage band and whatever pro skater Shayne Heyl is doing at the end of the song. “Hello, is it me you're looking for?” No, definitely not this time.

3. Lil Wayne “Piano Man” (2009)

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Album: Hottest Nigga Under The Sun

Producer: N/A

Billy Joel this is not. We would imagine this song is what it would sound like to be constipated while sipping on sizzurp. Wayne's ode to his “around the way girl” contains such poetic lyrics as, “You know where I'm from/I'm from where you're from” as Wayne struggles to find any shred of a musical note over piano laden production. There is a cool guitar solo at 2:56 but that one bright spot is quickly negated once Wayne starts singing again, sounding like Cee-Lo being strangled.

2. Lil Wayne “Fuck Me In The Moshpit” (2009)

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“Fuck Me In The Mosh Pit” is a leftover from Lil' Wayne's Rebirth. How bad does something need to be in order to be left off of Rebirth? Well, with production resembling The Ting Tings “That's Not My Name” (and not in a good way), Wayne dreams of finding a girl that will fuck him in the middle of the dance floor and in turn call him “Mr. I will leave her ass sore.” Question: How in the hell do you fuck someone in a mosh pit? Can you imagine getting thrown around all over the place while you're trying to live up to your reputation of being Mr. I will leave her ass sore? This song makes our ears sore. 

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