At first glance, Lil Wayne seems incredibly self-praising. He compares himself to Martin Luther King, Jr. ("Assassinate me, bitch!) and in Dr. Carter he makes himself the model for "good health" as far as originality and concepts go. However, he acknowledges the fact that many of his lyrics are nearly impossible to understand. Also in Dr. Carter, he basically says that his handwriting is illegible and he's got arthritis in his hand anyway, so he's going to stop writing. On the other hand, that metaphor may refer back to his self-interest and be saying that he has no reason to make himself understood because the underlying brilliance and creativity of his tracks should be completely self-evident.
Charles Aaron makes an excellent point in his review of Tha Carter III, when he says Lil Wayne is “motivated and distracted, piercing and random, clear-eyed and stoned into total bewildering oblivion”. In Don’t Get It, he keeps saying “Oh lord, don’t let me be misunderstood”, but it’s almost impossible for that particular phrase to be taken seriously because of the ridiculously complex and convoluted tangle of lyrics that nearly all of his songs are built out of. Trying to decipher many of the tracks on the album is an exercise in frustration for anyone who isn’t Lil Wayne himself, and probably even for him.
Wayne bounces from songs like Tie My Hands, where he talks about the devastation of Katrina and the sense of helplessness and impotence that so many people can relate to perfectly when it comes to just being totally unable to help and make a difference in that situation to songs like Lollipop, which is nothing more than a sexual tangle of lyrics written for absolutely no reason other than to be played at clubs and rake in the cash. The man is impossible to understand, not just because his lyrics make no sense, but because he has the capacity to write songs that would move anyone’s heart and then turns right around on the same album and produces something to make the world cringe.
