Comments on: The Next Spot: Lil Wayne-”The Carter II”

By: wes

wes — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 21:11:23 +0000

i’m late to this party but i just wanted to say dedication 3 has some bangers on it, especially “bang bang,” “”stuntin’,” “get bizzy” “magic” and “dedication 3″

it’s a weak tape for wayne standards but i think 75% of that falls on the features’ shoulders. also, if you hate auto-tune wayne, it’s an easy tape to shit on, too. but still…

By: Trey Stone

Trey Stone — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 05:20:15 +0000

one last thing, in “D3’s” defense it’s a fun mixtape as the faded post-”C3″ victory lap, even though yeah it’s obvious he wasn’t exactly trying 100% there lol

By: Trey Stone

Trey Stone — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 15:55:32 +0000

for sure. from a cohesive album standpoint, “C3’s” probably his best since it’s basically mixtape Wayne made palatable to a popular audience, but when you’re in a don’t give a fuck mood, his mixtapes are the best

By: Victor

Victor — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 03:10:49 +0000

I’d place quite a few albums above The Carter 2. It is undenaibly Wayne’s best studio lp, but i think people are underestimating the quantity of good music which has dropped in this decade.

The Blueprint is probably my favourite album of the noughties as well but even then it isn’t far above the competition. Supreme Clientele, fishscale, cuban linx 2, below the heavens, the black album, God’s Son, Stankonia, Madvillainy heck even though Stillmatic was uneven stuff like Rewind blows most tracks till this day out of the water.

@Spirit equality, part of Supreme Clientele’s attraction are the loosely connected bars. The links can be tenuous but by and large they are there.

Nas not a Deep Thinker? That is his whole style man! “Even my brain’s in handcuffs” he uttered on his debut. If that is not deep thinking what is? Nas is based on social commentary and i think that a handful of critics maligned his last lp unfairly. There is nothing poor about Queens Get The Money or The Slave And The Master. The thing about that record is that it polarised opinion due to its content and the delivery of said content.

As for Wayne ultimately though i agree with Trey Stone pretty much. There is a reason why Jay highlighted the “mixtape weezy”. Dude was pretty unstoppable in that period.

By: simon

simon — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 21:31:04 +0000

dude abe, there are way more white people on weezy’s dick than on gucci’s right now

By: spirit equality

spirit equality — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 20:46:14 +0000

none of the lines you quote here are particularly noteworthy. tracks like “fireman” are particularly forgettable singles that dropped out of dj rotation for a reason (i.e. lack of replay value).

i think supreme clientele can go up against blueprint for album of the decade, btw, even though it took me years to get over the fact that sometimes ghost makes no cotdamn sense at all.

By: Abe Beame

Abe Beame — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 15:45:14 +0000

On what authority are you so certain? You have heard 500 Degreez right?

By: Disco Vietnam

Disco Vietnam — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 07:33:20 +0000

Gillie Da Kid : Carter 1 as Obama : Born in Kenya

By: Jere

Jere — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 22:53:34 +0000

No Ceilings is fine. Blows Dedication 3 out of the water. Will probably be better than Rebirth.

By: Abe Beame

Abe Beame — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 22:24:53 +0000

I love No Ceilings. If you’re the type of fan who needs to see an artist progress and evolve with each new release I can see eyes glazing over at it but for me it’s great competent rapping with an energy we haven’t seen in a while. If he’d waited through a Sigel-esque malaise than dropped this I bet there’d be more white people on his dick than Gooch right now.

Carter 2 actually makes for an apt comparison. With 1 (probably with Gillie on the pen) he established a new found seriousness and an ability to make the kind of solid, hungry punchline trap rap that plays in New York. 2 was more of the same with grander ambitions, less thematic and conceptual, a more open grab for mainstream appeal. I like it but not as much as the inebriated experimentation that ended up launching him into the stratosphere. I don’t know if I’d call that work overrated but I think he definitely suffered from over saturation.