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It's official; The most terrible rapper alive is also the most popular.  This isn't at all surprising considering the track record of popular music.  As I write this, Lady Gaga is rated #1 on Billboard, so use that as a measuring stick.  Lil Wayne is the Lady Gaga of hip hop, and I say that with the utmost sincerity.

I was once suckered into thinking Lil Wayne MIGHT be talented after Chris played me Milli.  I liked that song and still do.  But after one Wayne screams into his microphone for a million hours, eventually something came out sounding good.  Or maybe he didn't have anything to do with what was good about the song.  All I know is that I listened to lots of what he put out (he has like 1700 songs) and couldn't find anything else good.  All it was was him crying whining and bragging about how awesome he is and how he likes to have sex with random women.

Still, even when I don't like something, I like to figure out why other people like things.  So I saw a documentary on Lil Wayne and decided to check it out and maybe get some more insight.  Instead I just ended up putting myself through a 1 hour 15 minutes ego fest of a delusional boy with diamond and platinum and shit in his mouth.  Minus the part at the end of the documentary where he apparently told the director to go fuck himself and they just cut and pasted a bunch of stock footage of him smiling in slow motion.

For starters, he's not even into banging women.  Throughout the documentary he states repeatedly that he doesn't have time for women and isn't interested anyway; he just wants to smoke blunts and drink syrup (cough syrup no i'm serious) and make music.  As admirable as that is, why does he rap about being hard and banging women?  Isn't keeping it real about singing about what you actually do and like to do instead of pandering to the audience.  Do his fans even think he's hard?  He isn't.  If you don't believe me watch the documentary.  He is a money hungry corporate owned egomaniac who can rap but cannot sing without the help of his fakeass voice modulation studio faking his inflections and emotion for him and telling him who his new sponsor is and what advertisement to wear today.  Good job living the american dream.

the costs of working

Working in an office environment is strange.  We have only been working in offices for a microscopic amount of time in evolutionary history.  So it seems like we will eventually figure it out, but that aint yet.  I witnessed this interaction where an employee went in to talk to a manager, and the manager was audibly irritated at them, asking questions like what about this and that, and then building to what do we (as a company) care?  I can understand he was busy and stuff, but it was painful to watch because the employee was actually trying to be helpful and proactive, and his boss didn't see this at all.

I don't pretend to have social skills, but I think we all need to be more aware that when we are getting annoyed at someone, it is because of internal reasons we get annoyed and probably not because what they are saying/doing.  Although people can be purposefully be annoying, these are jokes and should be treated as such.  The rest of the time, the person is trying to do something.  I don't know what because it's always different.  But when they approach you in an office environment, it is awkward and unsure to begin with, and the individuals have their own things going on and life crap that is on in the back of their mind.  Very few people only think about and deal with work when they are at work, and although work dominates our lives time wise our minds are always trying to escape it because few people enjoy their job and some of those people are mentally imbalanced workaholics.

Since you probably know the other person better than I do, you can tell yourself points of trivia about the person, why they formulated what they are saying, what they may be actually trying to say.  Reading between the lines is a very valuable skill.  Try to bunch all your anger inside instead of displacing it onto coworkers who in all likelihood are put off being where they are at the moment.  Then release it when appropriate on a punching bag or maybe a cardboard cutout.