Tha Carter IV
 

deserves its own thread.

.... FOR ME TO POOP ON!!!

That album cover's funny. I'm looking forward to this though, for real.

definitely. I really like "Six Foot Seven" a lot. Wise that he teamed up with Bangladesh to make another "A Milli" sounding track w/ no chorus to hype up the next Carter.

6 foot 7 foot is a cool song, seriously.... i'll listen to the rest

"john" is even cooler

THIS iS LAME

WHY DOIES THAT KID HAVE TATTOOS

nice. Did you like Carter III? Have you heard "A Milli"?

I couldn't agree more.

Am I the only one who hates Lil Wayne?

Most of the planet hates him.

nope, fear not. You're actually quite hip.

Not really these days. Its become quite the thing to not only like lil wayne but also credit him as the greatest troubadour of modern hip hop. In my observation, its become cool for kids who are into basically rock, noise, hipster drone to be into f. baby. These kids don't know really anything about hip hop and don't care to, they only want to mess with wayne. They will say its because he's the best, but if your rubric is weezy vs. the radio, then yeah, ok, sure he's better than that.

essentially, these people pretentiously read non-pretentious magazines and music articles and take every word as concrete truth. They forget this all opinion based and are satisfied by reading the hipster bibles (Pitchfork, The Wire, etc..) and following blindly.

Lil Wayne has become to the people as Outkast was in the mid to late 90's: The only hip hop artist that predominantly rock fans would listen to.

So, if you like Wayne and don't like any other rap, then you are walking the tightrope of coolness.

if you say so man. I really don't know what people listen to anymore.

I thought that was Kool Keith.......

that seems a little closer to me, although I feel like Keith's reign of that title ended around 2004/2005ish.

Good point, but, Keith was never really on the radio and Outkast was, I mean they sold a ton of records and toured everywhere. Kinda the same thing with Wayne, he's rap fan famous and is also embraced by mostly rock audiences.

this is the part I think yr wrong about.

That Lil Wayne is embraced by people that mostly listen to rock?

that's not what you said above. you said he was " embraced by mostly rock audiences." Which is to say that MOST of his fans are non-hip hop fans. I think that's wrong. I think he's huge to fans of hip hop, and is so big that he also spills over into tastes of those that are not normally into hip hop.

I mistyped that. I meant to type mostly-rock, as in people that listen to mostyl-rock music.

yeah I know. Grr. we Have a miscomunication here. This is what I think:

MOST OF Lil Wayne's fans are hip hop fans.
SOME OF Lil Wayne's fans are rock fans.

Agree or disagree?

Anyone who thinks Lil Wayne's main audience are rock fans is delusional. He didn't get a bunch of number ones or sell a million albums in one week off of the back of SOME ROCK FANS.

right?

I was agreeing with you by the way. Hahaha.

yah I Know.

Yes, I agree. My point was that a lot of the rock fans (the hipsters) think that rap starts and stops with Lil Wayne.

ok.

noisereductions going for the more minimalist approach to posting.

yes.

no. No. Sorry. No.

oh I get it. You're too hip to like him because you remember him BEFORE Tha Carter, eh?

Well I love his early work with Hot Boys. Love his first 3 solo albums before breaking through. Love the stuff he recorded with CMM. I'm just not sure what's so "typical."

yeah UNUSUAL not typical. Maybe typical subject matter, fine. But he's into interesting flows, weird enjambments, trainofthought freestyles, and trying ridiculous shit to see what sinks and what floats. Not typical. Ballsy to the point of fearless of releasing something bad. Interesting. not typical.

um I"m not sure that's a logical thing to say.

Rappers from the South are gonna sound Southern. And there were a lot of Southern rappers pre-Weezy.

can't wait for this to leak

da drought 3 is dope btw

only wayne i "bump" regularly really

Yeah Drought 3 is very good. From the same period, I'd say Drought Is Over 2 is maybe even better. Though Dedication 2 is EASILY my favorite Lil Wayne mixtape. Easily.

lulz

I haven't actively sought anything Weezy's put out in a while but I've been bumping the Michael Watt's chopped Carters recently and also Da Drought Is Over.
I'll definitely listen to this.