LIL Wayne! Is the "G" in "Lasagna" Silent?

My college twitter buddy @AMIruje tweeted the following:

And at first I didn't get it.  Then I thought about it.  The layman's way of interpreting this line is as follows:

Real men with street credit and respect move quietly.  They are not loud or boisterous like a young child or wild untrained man.  Their calm and collected silence is comparable to that of the letter "G" in the word "Lasagna."

When I realized that this is indeed what Lil' Wayne was saying, I thought about it further.  It's not that I'm a hater.  I don't really know what exactly Lil' Wayne stands for/ supports.  I don't know his music and I don't know his attitude toward the world in general, so my questioning of whether the letter "G" in the word "lasagna" was not based on any after effects of sipping on Haterade.  


Rather, I am a classically trained musician, and my mind went straight to my days in classes like Italian diction and the International Phonetic Alphabet [IPA].  The only thing that I could come up with right from the top of my head was the "Eng" sound [ŋ]


However, that particular sound is used in words like "king" and "sing"... words that are spelled with the letter "n" before the letter "g", so Lil' Wayne passes that test.  


After getting over my instinct, I did a google search:

See?  I wasn't the only one in the world who thought that Lil' Wayne might be wrong!  Simply typing "Is the g" in a google search will reveal that so many other people are trying to figure out the same thing.  So it was no surprise when the first result was an article by New York Magazine about this very subject.   


In the posting, we get the following from Carl Chery [whoever that is] at BET:

BET’s Carl Chery adds “If we start being technical with lyrics, then we'll have to void a lot of these rappers' punchlines.” (Very true, Carl Chery.)

But my question is this:  Shouldn't we be technical about things?  I mean, when do you draw the line?  Who remembers "Your Love" from Nicki Minaj a while back?

"When I was a Geisha he was a Samurai somehow I understood him when he spoke Thai"

I mean... WTF was THAT all about?  These rappers need to step their game up.  I'm no rapper, but that doesn't mean that people can just say whatever they want to say so long as it rhymes.

Just like Britney Spears' song "If You Seek Amy".... Yes, we all know that it's a play on words.  When you say the line "If You Seek Amy" it sounds like you are spelling out "fuck" and saying "me" afterwards, but how does that make sense with the rest of the sentence:

"All of the boys and all of the girls are begging to IF YOU SEEK AMY"

It was like she was about to say one thing and then suddenly throws in this [not so] clever play on words.  It doesn't make sense [all of that was completely off topic, but I wanted to make sure I said it before I forgot].  

In the end, Lil Wayne gets by this time.  Even in Italian [contrary to what some are saying [those are the real haters]] the "g" is not pronounced.  

At the end of the day, it was a pretty clever line.  But not everyone can be so "G"-like.