Lil Wayne - Tha Carter IV... HORSEMEN

song is dope man -- once i got past that it's not "i'm not a star" i grew to really like it

also had to get past wayne fumbling w/ a guitar while wearing jeggings during that song at the vmas

I never did get past it not being "I'm Not A Star" :/

http://www.manolith.com/files/2012/08/toilet.jpg

nah there's some good stuff here. rebirth is a fucking toilet

nope

This thread = 1,000x more entertaining that the album it's about

nope to which j0rdan?

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.

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.

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

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

CARTER V

i was a pretty big fan of this dude at one point but to me this shit is unlistenable

This is what I needed right now.

what's with the voice, he doesn't sound like himself?

on first listen this is disappointing

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

This albums is pretty good, people. What is wrong with you? Lol

this was a good thread title

yeah this is far from unlistenable lol

what's with the voice, he doesn't sound like himself?

I dunno, on the collaboration with Kendrick he sounds like himself, albeit older and more weary than in his prime years back

the flow is super different on mona lisa. but i like it.

sounds kinda like young thug which is weird bc those guys are not friends

He varies the flow on it -- some parts sound newer but other verses seem old-school

This albums is pretty good, people. What is wrong with you? Lol

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

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

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.

he's not old though

*ageing - he was starting to sound old a few years ago. Now it's more like he has matured.

i could live inside the beat for demons

I like 'Mess' a lot. Really the whole last chunk of the record is the best part.

totally agreed. there are 5 or 6 tracks that are completely worthless, and most of them are near the beginning

Don't Cry is really good

xp i'm mostly thinking of dark side of the moon, yeesh

wayne comes off real nice here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T_o6BmTb48A

“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.