That's a pretty exaggerated take on what I said. And "I'm Not a Star" >>>>
― banjee trillness (The Reverend), Monday, 4 April 2011 22:07 (thirteen years ago) link
i like "john" a lot -- i did a mock up of my first quarter top 10 and wayne appears three times so i'm trying to figure out why that is
― J0rdan S., Monday, 4 April 2011 22:13 (thirteen years ago) link
What were the other two?
― banjee trillness (The Reverend), Monday, 4 April 2011 22:16 (thirteen years ago) link
I still can't get over the fact that the song is called "John"
― banjee trillness (The Reverend), Monday, 4 April 2011 22:17 (thirteen years ago) link
he's (obviously) still a far cry away from when he was GREAT but he seems to be rapping w/ more purpose & focus now -- that's a big vague but more specifically it seems like he's at least temporarily dropped a lot of his bad habits (i.e. laughing at his own jokes) (though not all i.e. grocery bagging, excessive "the earth is a girl" metaphors) -- also for the time being at least he's not doing gross 'pop' stuff like the i'm not a human being/young money stuff that immediately preceded his sentence -- seems like he wants to go back to street shit a bit & i dig that
― J0rdan S., Monday, 4 April 2011 22:18 (thirteen years ago) link
"john", "look at me now" & "hustle hard (remix)"
I wouldn't have problems with him doing a pop joint or two if they were more "Lollipop" and less "Bedrock".
I would f/w "Look at Me Now" but fuck Chris Brown.
― banjee trillness (The Reverend), Monday, 4 April 2011 22:28 (thirteen years ago) link
i'm kinda interested in the way he's now dropped 2 straight up rap singles (whereas w/ C3 he dropped "Lollipop" and "A Milli" simultaneously), i'm assuming he does have some shameless crossover single coming before the album drops but i have no idea whether it'll be a predictable R&B singer(or Drake)-assisted AutoTune extravaganza or something else entirely.
other than the "real G's move in silence like lasagna" slow burner I can't say he's done any rapping I care about at all post-prison, though, he has dropped some annoying tics but he's hardly back to pre-C3 level.
― Metal Jennifer Saunders (some dude), Tuesday, 5 April 2011 00:08 (thirteen years ago) link
Yeah, I pretty much appreciate him coming out with two rappin'-ass rap songs right away even if I think one of them sucks.
― banjee trillness (The Reverend), Tuesday, 5 April 2011 00:24 (thirteen years ago) link
http://cdn.concreteloop.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/lil_wayne_cover.jpg
― PΓ☼LΞG☼ (prolego), Thursday, 21 April 2011 10:55 (thirteen years ago) link
idk why people were getting all OMG about that cover which is a fairly obvious next step from tha carter iii
― lex pretend, Thursday, 21 April 2011 11:01 (thirteen years ago) link
It's kind of cute.
― Matt DC, Thursday, 21 April 2011 11:06 (thirteen years ago) link
kinda feel like people on the internet now are just constantly feigning SHOCK and AMAZEMENT at totally in character album covers like Wayne's and Gaga's
― some dude, Thursday, 21 April 2011 11:43 (thirteen years ago) link
it's hilarious & awesome
― J0rdan S., Thursday, 21 April 2011 11:52 (thirteen years ago) link
it's the exact same concept as his album cover from 2008
― lex pretend, Thursday, 21 April 2011 11:58 (thirteen years ago) link
It's not OMG SURPRISE but it is funny.
― Matt DC, Thursday, 21 April 2011 12:00 (thirteen years ago) link
It's the facial expression primarily
― Number None, Thursday, 21 April 2011 12:02 (thirteen years ago) link
Reminds of that poster for The 40 Year Old Virgin, staring hopefully into the future kind of thing
― Number None, Thursday, 21 April 2011 12:03 (thirteen years ago) link
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― lex pretend, donderdag 21 april 2011 13:01 (1 hour ago) Bookmark
OTM. It's a kid, smiling. How OMG FANTASTIC is that after his previous album covers?
― Future Debts Collector (Le Bateau Ivre), Thursday, 21 April 2011 12:15 (thirteen years ago) link
fwiw i think the OMG thing is about the photoshopped present day Wayne tattoos on the face of child Wayne, but again he did that w/ the last album so it's kinda ho hum
― some dude, Thursday, 21 April 2011 12:43 (thirteen years ago) link
The same thing can be cute and funny more than once, dudes.
― Matt DC, Thursday, 21 April 2011 12:59 (thirteen years ago) link
Well in the case of Gaga< I think a lot of the shock comes from the fact that it looks like a bad photoshop job. But maybe bad photoshop jobs are in character for Gaga...
― MarkoP, Thursday, 21 April 2011 13:00 (thirteen years ago) link
oh it is cute and funny, i agree, it's just not very OMG WTF
― some dude, Thursday, 21 April 2011 13:02 (thirteen years ago) link
^^ indeed
― Future Debts Collector (Le Bateau Ivre), Thursday, 21 April 2011 13:03 (thirteen years ago) link
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― popular gay automobile (a hoy hoy), Thursday, 21 April 2011 13:38 (thirteen years ago) link
yah this is p lol cmon
partly bcuz it doesnt look like a rap album cover
― geeks, dweebs, nerds & lames (D-40), Thursday, 21 April 2011 17:34 (thirteen years ago) link
would've been funnier with present day wayne wearing that outfit imo
― some dude, Thursday, 21 April 2011 17:35 (thirteen years ago) link
could not be funnier u are idiots
― flopson, Thursday, 21 April 2011 17:55 (thirteen years ago) link
OH MY GOD ITS THE NEW BIG BEAR WAYNE IS RUNNING THANGS AMIRITE
― i put that on my sub (Whiney G. Weingarten), Thursday, 21 April 2011 17:56 (thirteen years ago) link
yes it does! it looks like a very specific rap album cover! that sold a lot of copies not very long ago!
― lex pretend, Thursday, 21 April 2011 18:01 (thirteen years ago) link
when you think about it what *is* a rap album anyway?
― O da Huge Manatee (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 21 April 2011 18:03 (thirteen years ago) link
― geeks, dweebs, nerds & lames (D-40), donderdag 21 april 2011 19:34 (46 minutes ago) Bookmark
Uhhhmm, what Lex said, it looks just like its predecessor? And that is only partly why it's "p lol"? What's the other part? I must be missing out on a HUEG amount of LOLS and HILARITY here.
To make things worse, this ridiculous orgasmic gawking over this unfunny, unoriginal cover has made me completely agree with the Lex. Damnit.
― Future Debts Collector (Le Bateau Ivre), Thursday, 21 April 2011 18:26 (thirteen years ago) link
ok shut up
― flopson, Thursday, 21 April 2011 18:27 (thirteen years ago) link
no it looks like a 12 year old in a graduation gown
― geeks, dweebs, nerds & lames (D-40), Thursday, 21 April 2011 18:27 (thirteen years ago) link
if only there was some sort of precedent for rappers putting little kids on their album covers that are supposed to represent them
― i put that on my sub (Whiney G. Weingarten), Thursday, 21 April 2011 18:28 (thirteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ktDeFS8KZPs
― flopson, Thursday, 21 April 2011 18:30 (thirteen years ago) link
http://www.myguitarsolo.com/500Albums/Pics500/400Nas%20-%20Illmatic.jpg
hahaha look at this guys
http://static.rateyourmusic.com/album_images/8c13dc6f8d23800563063f75c5213a7f/9079.jpg
a baby with an afro what?!
― i put that on my sub (Whiney G. Weingarten), Thursday, 21 April 2011 18:32 (thirteen years ago) link
i mean i guess its funny because wayne still has a tattoo of an erect penis between his eyebrows
― i put that on my sub (Whiney G. Weingarten), Thursday, 21 April 2011 18:34 (thirteen years ago) link
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_o22Ef2hfHHU/TUBvpT1MKII/AAAAAAAABeE/cLsyO2PTO9U/s400/DB%2BTha%2BGeneral%2B-%2BThe%2BYoung%2BO.G.%2BII%2B%255B2011%255D.jpg
― flopson, Thursday, 21 April 2011 18:38 (thirteen years ago) link
omg
― Future Debts Collector (Le Bateau Ivre), Thursday, 21 April 2011 18:39 (thirteen years ago) link
theres a big diff whiney & its that the wayne cover looks goofy as shit
― geeks, dweebs, nerds & lames (D-40), Thursday, 21 April 2011 18:40 (thirteen years ago) link
alright looks like the joke has been thoroughly killed
on to the next one, boys
― flopson, Thursday, 21 April 2011 18:46 (thirteen years ago) link
dude don't be talkin that illuminati shit
― O da Huge Manatee (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 21 April 2011 19:21 (thirteen years ago) link
This is the worst Wayne single ever:
http://www.lilwaynehq.com/2011/05/26/lil-wayne-how-to-love/
― Evan R, Thursday, 26 May 2011 16:25 (thirteen years ago) link
i kinda like it?
― Jacques_Lamure, Thursday, 26 May 2011 17:07 (thirteen years ago) link
the production's pretty thin but the vocal is kinda nice as far as LIl Wayne Sings! songs go
― Jacques_Lamure, Thursday, 26 May 2011 17:10 (thirteen years ago) link
No, this is awful. And I love "Lollipop."
― my beautiful dark twisted fennessey (rennavate), Thursday, 26 May 2011 18:11 (thirteen years ago) link
You really think it's worse than the stuff he released off of Rebirth?
― MarkoP, Thursday, 26 May 2011 18:24 (thirteen years ago) link
My 11 year old son wrote a story for school entitled "The Best Day Ever" that involved him meeting some friends and one of them giving him Tha Carter IV. The teacher corrected "Tha" to "The".
― death, taxes and (onimo), Friday, April 1, 2011 9:27 AM (1 month ago) Bookmark
^ slept-on post
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Thursday, 26 May 2011 18:31 (thirteen years ago) link
I do. Rebirth was an ugly album, but at least Wayne full sold that material; there was an energy and enthusiasm to it that I found endearing, even if I didn't much care for the actual music. But this... yikes.
― Evan R, Thursday, 26 May 2011 18:38 (thirteen years ago) link
nope to which j0rdan?
― heiswagger (rennavate), Tuesday, 16 October 2012 15:02 (eleven years ago) link
i think j0rdan was saying carter 4 is a toilet. although rennavate's post seemed to misunderstanding whiney's post re: the song title "john."
as far as unworthy blockbuster rap albums go, you could do a lot worse than carter 4. it's more bland and overly familiar than outright bad.
― some dude, Tuesday, 16 October 2012 19:48 (eleven years ago) link
Yeah. It had some songs but was mostly bland and uninspired. I don't know why everybody hates How To Love though. That's a pretty good song.
― Gelados n cream (longneck), Tuesday, 16 October 2012 20:02 (eleven years ago) link
The singles are almost all better than I remember them, and there were a fair amount of them, so by that measure the album did what it set out to do
― Evan R, Tuesday, 16 October 2012 20:06 (eleven years ago) link
Also forgot about that closing track where Bun B, Busta and Nas all kind of kill it, but Wayne never shows up and it's just as well
i grew to appreciate "How To Love" over time, as much as i wanted to dismiss it outright
― some dude, Tuesday, 16 October 2012 20:10 (eleven years ago) link
CARTER V
― triggercut, Friday, 28 September 2018 13:34 (five years ago) link
i was a pretty big fan of this dude at one point but to me this shit is unlistenable
― (•̪●) (carne asada), Friday, 28 September 2018 15:45 (five years ago) link
This is what I needed right now.
― Popture, Saturday, 29 September 2018 04:19 (five years ago) link
what's with the voice, he doesn't sound like himself?
― niels, Saturday, 29 September 2018 08:09 (five years ago) link
on first listen this is disappointing
― niels, Saturday, 29 September 2018 08:17 (five years ago) link
That Kendrick verse is possibly the worst thing he's ever done, unless it was tongue-in-cheek, in which case it's only one of the 10'worst things he's ever done
― nba jungboy (voodoo chili), Saturday, 29 September 2018 14:16 (five years ago) link
This albums is pretty good, people. What is wrong with you? Lol
― human and working on getting beer (longneck), Saturday, 29 September 2018 22:47 (five years ago) link
this was a good thread title
― J0rdan S., Sunday, 30 September 2018 01:29 (five years ago) link
yeah this is far from unlistenable lol
― dyl, Sunday, 30 September 2018 14:23 (five years ago) link
I dunno, on the collaboration with Kendrick he sounds like himself, albeit older and more weary than in his prime years back
― curmudgeon, Sunday, 30 September 2018 14:47 (five years ago) link
the flow is super different on mona lisa. but i like it.
― Trϵϵship, Sunday, 30 September 2018 14:49 (five years ago) link
sounds kinda like young thug which is weird bc those guys are not friends
― Trϵϵship, Sunday, 30 September 2018 14:50 (five years ago) link
He varies the flow on it -- some parts sound newer but other verses seem old-school
― curmudgeon, Sunday, 30 September 2018 17:36 (five years ago) link
otm, even on first listen it's so much better than Tha Carter IV, which was such a letdown after III. it's been 7 years (?) since I listened to a new lil Wayne album and this is good
― flappy bird, Sunday, 30 September 2018 21:57 (five years ago) link
was thinking recently how lucky we are that Wayne is still alive, how lucky he is. so many more rappers OD'ing in their 20s than in decades past
― flappy bird, Sunday, 30 September 2018 21:58 (five years ago) link
yep, I had that exact same thought. It made me appreciate this even more. If you had asked me couple of years ago I would have said the chances of Wayne actually growing old w a certain sense of dignity were close to zero. But here we are.
― human and working on getting beer (longneck), Sunday, 30 September 2018 22:40 (five years ago) link
he's not old though
― Trϵϵship, Sunday, 30 September 2018 23:26 (five years ago) link
*ageing - he was starting to sound old a few years ago. Now it's more like he has matured.
― human and working on getting beer (longneck), Monday, 1 October 2018 00:22 (five years ago) link
i could live inside the beat for demons
― nba jungboy (voodoo chili), Wednesday, 3 October 2018 13:59 (five years ago) link
I like 'Mess' a lot. Really the whole last chunk of the record is the best part.
― change display name (Jordan), Wednesday, 3 October 2018 14:21 (five years ago) link
totally agreed. there are 5 or 6 tracks that are completely worthless, and most of them are near the beginning
― nba jungboy (voodoo chili), Wednesday, 3 October 2018 14:24 (five years ago) link
Don't Cry is really good
― flappy bird, Wednesday, 3 October 2018 17:09 (five years ago) link
xp i'm mostly thinking of dark side of the moon, yeesh
― nba jungboy (voodoo chili), Wednesday, 3 October 2018 17:46 (five years ago) link
wayne comes off real nice here:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T_o6BmTb48A
― niels, Saturday, 6 October 2018 10:29 (five years ago) link
“Mona Lisa” is fucking weird & unpleasant, don’t know why people like it.
Overexcited high-pitched Wayne flow is probably his worst stylistic development in the last 3 or so years.
― nova, Sunday, 7 October 2018 21:57 (five years ago) link