Lil Wayne - “CoCo” (Official Video)

Our last-ever Mixtape Of The Week column, before we switched over to the Week In Rap, was dedicated to Lil Wayne’s Sorry 4 The Wait 2. Given that Wayne had a huge hand in making the mixtape landscape what it is, that’s appropriate. The tape opened with Wayne’s version of O.T. Genasis’ pounding street hit “CoCo,” using it to explicitly address his legal battle with Cash Money Records. Wayne has now made a video for the “CoCo” freestyle, and it’s got him, shirtless in a ski mask, trying to break out of a metal cage. As metaphors go, that one seems pretty obvious. We also get archival footage of Wayne and Birdman when things were still cool, and a few gory movie clips for good measure. Eif Rivera directs.