Originally announced as "Third Times the Charm" for 2005, "The One and Only" follows up "Doubt Me Now" ('03) and "Phinally Phamous" ('04), which according to the rapper account for combined sales of 400,000, a very respectable number. And somewhere along the way they picked up this Wyte guy from the Shelby section of Memphis, and with "The One and Only" release his third solo in a row on their Hypnotize Minds imprint. Three 6 have been sharpening their business sense for a long time, from the '90s when they helped build the southern rap scene to 2006 when they brought an Oscar back to the hood.
LIL WYTE ALBUM COVERS SKIN
The fact that Wyte accepts that his skin color has influenced his signing and his subsequent willingness to make the best of out it speaks to his intelligence. It's so much deeper than just being a white rapper, it breaks racial boundaries in certain areas." I asked Paul, 'When y'all were looking for me, were you looking for a rapper period, or a white rapper?' He looked at me real serious, and gave me a smile and said, 'I was looking for a white rapper.' Paul and Juicy are some of the most honest people in the world. Everybody's got a purpose on Earth, and I think mine was to be with Three 6 Mafia rapping my lil' white ass off.
When I woke up one morning and realized I was that white boy, it all made sense - I became that guy, I get it now. Lil Wyte's current press information readily acknowledges that, as he is quoted as saying, "Eight years ago I said, 'Man, Three 6 Mafia needs a hard-ass white boy.' It wasn't a racial comment or nothing to talk shit about, it was how I felt. Growing up in an overwhelmingly black neighborhood and then still joining a white rap crew, that would only go to show how color of skin can determine a rapper's career choices. But what puzzles me is that his bio says he 'began his career with the all-white underground rap group Shelby Forest Clique,' while on his latest album he states that he "grew up in the bad part of the all-black hood on the west side of this Tenn-a-ki." Don't get me wrong, it's very well possible. I was glad to learn that he didn't become Lil Wyte when he joined the Hypnotize Camp Posse but that the name dates back to when he first formed a tag-team with a partner who called himself Lil Black in high school. It is disarmingly honest and charmingly naïve. With a moniker like Lil Wyte, Patrick Lanshaw sort of has it coming to him. Like the self-appointed "King of the Burbs" John Brown with his half-baked "Ghetto Revival" gibberish. On the other hand if they don't keep a certain respectful distance, they are liable to get things mixed up. A highly educational piece of television, it showed us that aspiring rappers can only benefit from connecting with the roots of the artform. Exploiting the apparent oxymoron 'white rapper', it was based on the premise that America's melanin-deficient MC's still don't quite fit into the overall picture and have to earn their place in both the hip-hop culture and the rap game. Like a reality show is supposed to, ego trip's _The (white) Rapper Show_ from a few months back was all about an unlikely combination. Let's start by acknowledging that both Vanilla Ice and Eminem, each in his own way, made it (even more) difficult for white rappers. But I'll gladly address the topic, especially when the artist himself makes the first step. Even yours truly, who can be said to be harping on the subject, is perfectly able to review an album completely color-blind. But rap music is at a point where they don't have to be brought up every single time.
When you read a review of a rap record (particularly one on the text-only ), do you sometimes wonder if the rapper in question is white? Have you read write-ups that you feel failed to spell out the obvious, that the rapper is white? Or that you thought irrelevantly pointed out that the rapper is white? Does it occur that you're curious whether a reviewer who covers rap is white or not? These are legitimate questions. Lil Wyte :: The One and Only :: Hypnotize Minds/ Asylum Records Lil Wyte :: The One and Only :: Hypnotize Minds/Asylum Records
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