It’s pretty touching, with Mama Weezy personifying Wayne’s steadfast fan base. I know these gargantuan releases help streaming numbers but the art making cohesive albums certainly is suffering.Īnyway, the album begins with “I Love You Dwayne,” a tearful opener from his mother professing her unconditional love for him. Yes, Tha Carter V is yet ANOTHER 90-minute behemoth of an album, continuing the current trend of massive albums that sink under its own weight. It’s too bad this story is SO long-winded. This is Wayne’s opportunity to rewrite his story, something rap veterans rarely get an opportunity to fairly do. The former kingpin is now an underdog yet again. That’s why the release of the looooooooooooong-delayed Tha Carter V is such an important milestone. Lil Wayne is the father Abraham of this rap generation.īut in the decade that followed the monumental success of C3, Wayne’s career has been wracked with turmoil – drug and personal issues public problems with his former label pointless rap beefs wildly inconsistent music releases and former proteges eclipsing his own popularity. You can’t throw a rock without hitting 17 Weezy clones. From the simile-heavy bars and the obsession with autotune to the endless face tats and infinite cups of lean, Wayne’s DNA is ALL OVER current hip-hop. That influence is blatantly evident today. By the time Tha Carter 3 dropped in 2008, he might not have been the best rapper alive but he BY FAR was the most influential. He was just a cog in the machine.īut by 2004, when Wayne kicked off his Tha Carter series of albums and started flooding the game with mixtape after mixtape, a weird thing happened:Īll those boasts of being the Best Rapper Alive? He willed them into existence, becoming hip-hop’s hardest working man. Still, he was still seen as a glorified hype man – the charismatic kid known more for funny one-liners than lyrical prowess. His story is made for film: As a young buck, he enjoyed platinum success off the strength of his association with Cash Money records for the 99 and the 2000. People love an underdog story and no one has gone from 0 to 100 quite like Dwayne Michael Carter Jr. Tha Carter V (released September 28, 2018)
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