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Post by Deleted on Nov 20, 2008 11:16:52 GMT -5
I love that the best selling album of the year's thread has 8 pages. Well Lil' Wayne doesn't have an overabundance of little gay boys that wet their 2(x)ist briefs every time he exhales. That's what I was thinking, but you phrased it oh so well.
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Post by Rican@ on Nov 20, 2008 18:16:18 GMT -5
Well Lil' Wayne doesn't have an overabundance of little gay boys that wet their 2(x)ist briefs every time he exhales. That's what I was thinking, but you phrased it oh so well. LMAO
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Post by Deleted on Nov 20, 2008 18:25:42 GMT -5
Pitchfork puts Weezy, usually one of their darlings, on blast for Dedication 3. Lil Wayne: Dedication 3 [mixtape; 2008] Rating: 3.7
Lil Wayne's been calling himself the best rapper alive since way before anyone took the claim seriously. On Dedication 2, the second in the series of reputation-cementing mixtapes Wayne made with DJ Drama, he explained: "I am better than everybody. I'm a competitor. I hope everybody else feel the same way about their craft. If you do, it makes it better for the people." So that was it: In an era of hustlers-not-rappers, Wayne was one of the few who took his occupation seriously, who put in 16-hour days coming up with the sort of word-drunk, out-there punchlines that made the world take him seriously. In a few years' time, Wayne went from a goofy Southern kiddie-rapper to a force of nature.
Fast forward to this year: Tha Carter III is the biggest-selling album of 2008 and also one of the most acclaimed-- in part because Wayne put so much work in. Note the past tense: Wayne no longer has anything to prove, and Dedication 3, his new Drama mixtape, sounds like it.
Wayne is very good at a few things: rapping, picking beats, making goofy facial expressions in videos. He's not especially good at playing guitar or singing or selecting rappers for his record label. But those other things seem to be monopolizing his attention these days. There's no guitar on Dedication 3, thank God, but we get a whole lot more of Wayne's off-key Auto-Tuned warbling than we get of his actual rapping, and he mostly leaves the rhyming to his Young Money Entertainment signees, which anyone who's heard Mack Maine's shockingly clumsy guest-verse on the "Got Money" video knows is a bad thing. When Wayne does get around to rapping, he usually sounds like he's fried his brain on so much cough syrup that he can barely bring himself to stick to the beat or come up with more than one good line.
This is a circa-2008 DJ Drama mixtape, which means the beats, both new and vintage, will be top-notch and well-sequenced, but it also means Drama's own weed-carriers Willie the Kid and L.A. the Darkman will be along for the ride. The title track sets the tone: Over Drama associate Don Cannon's pretty-great beat for Outkast's "Da Art of Storytelling, Part 4", Wayne gargles out an unmemorable chorus while Willie, Mack Maine, and Gudda Gudda spit boringness; Wayne jumps on at the end for a quick afterthought of a verse. This is the first track, and it goes on for nearly seven minutes. Things don't get a lot better from there.
Every big-name rapper these days has a crew of associates, but only a few-- T.I. and Kanye-- have ones worth hearing. But, hey, these guys need to rap somewhere, so it might as well be on a free online mixtape. Still this is a Dedication mixtape, and listening to all three of them in order tells a sad story. The last two featured Wayne, hungry and fearsome, ready to take over the world through whacked-out genius and force of will. This time, he's barely paying attention. Example: "Get Bizzy". The track snatches the simple, spacey, orchestra-hit-heavy beat to V.I.C.'s "Get Silly", exactly the sort of low-budget novelty-hit that the Wayne of two years ago would've just annihilated, the way he did to Dem Franchize Boyz' "I Think They Like Me" on Dedication 2 or DJ Unk's "Walk It Out" on Da Drought 3. This time he drools all over the track in a half-conscious Auto-Tuned slur, loses the beat a couple of times, comes up with exactly one slick line ("Red scarf on my neck/ Red diamonds looking like red barf on my neck, uhh"), then turns the whole thing over to the unbelievably s**tty Plies sound-alike Gudda Gudda. Epic fail.
More bad decisions: Tyga, the squeaky-voiced younger cousin of Gym Class Hero Travis McCoy, gets pole position on Drumma Boy's gothically churning beat for Young Jeezy's "Put On" and he absolutely sucks. Nondescript protégé Nikki Minaj, meanwhile, gets to defile the beat to T.I.'s "No Matter What" so she can complain (in Auto-Tune, guh) about the **people who just so happen to have an opinion that I disagree with and therefore I think it is inferior to mine** she's not famous enough to have. And for the first time, a Wayne signee-- Jae Millz, journeyman veteran of the New York mixtape and battle circuits-- upstages his boss. Millz isn't a great rapper, but he's got a no-bulls**t monotone flow and a way with punchlines: "Y'all nothing like me, f**k boy, don't be outlandish/ We gorillas in the mist, y'all just some kung fu pandas." Here and there, we get brief flashes of the truly nasty Wayne, but we have to wade through so much bulls**t to find these gems that it's barely worth the effort. One of Wayne's most entertaining moments comes on a non-rapping skit where he's just talking about Sarah Palin-- and he even loses focus near the end of that.
We've been here before. The first time Wayne started f**king around with Auto-Tune was on another near-unlistenable mixtape released near the end of last year, Empire's unlicensed Da Drought Is Over, Part 4. When I heard that, I wrote that Wayne might need to slow down, that his appetites and his volume of output were finally starting to bring down the quality of his work. Wayne pulled it together for Tha Carter III, and a handful of post-album guest-appearances (Drake's "Ransom", Keri Hilson's "Turnin' Me On") show that he's still a monster when he wants to be. But when he stops wanting it, we get bulls**t like Dedication 3.
- Tom Breihan, November 20, 2008 www.pitchforkmedia.com/article/record_review/147568-lil-wayne-dedication-3
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Post by Wavey✨️ on Nov 21, 2008 0:50:18 GMT -5
^Dammmnn. D3 got dissed. Weezy loves his auto-tune. Can't fault him for that,he's havin fun.
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Post by JC. Da Don on Nov 22, 2008 18:52:21 GMT -5
Need to get a hold of the new mixtape.
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Post by marcjm on Nov 22, 2008 23:47:11 GMT -5
I don't like the gangsta rap instead preferring more of the wholesome brand. However, I do believe that Lil' Wayne has some pretty hot songs. Mr. Carter and Mrs. Officer are the only ones I can tolerate, but I am beginning to respect his craft and artistry to a certain degree.
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Post by Myeahhh. on Nov 23, 2008 21:09:55 GMT -5
LOL, I actually predicted this to be the biggest album of the year. And I was right!!
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Post by Deleted on Dec 3, 2008 21:40:32 GMT -5
Lil' Wayne received eight Grammy nominations, the most this year.
Album of the Year for Tha Carter III. Best Rap Solo Performance for "A Milli". Best Rap Performance by a Duo or Group for "Swagga Like Us". Best Rap Performance by a Duo or Group for "Mr. Carter". Best Rap/Sung Collaboration for "Got Money". Best Rap Song for "Lollipop". Best Rap Song for "Swagga Like Us". Best Rap Album for Tha Carter III.
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Post by sdot23 on Dec 4, 2008 10:17:06 GMT -5
Good for him! I think he will also be the top winner come February.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 4, 2008 11:33:56 GMT -5
The songwriting categories are such jokes. "Lollipop" over "A Milli"?!?!? Come on. Very proud of Weezy though.
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Post by Active Aggressive on Dec 4, 2008 13:07:40 GMT -5
CRAZY Progressive Grammys this year!
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Post by OH SNAP! on Dec 4, 2008 15:55:52 GMT -5
The songwriting categories are such jokes. "Lollipop" over "A Milli"?!?!? Come on. Very proud of Weezy though. I thought he didn't write songs ??? :o ;)
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Post by Deleted on Dec 4, 2008 16:31:19 GMT -5
The songwriting categories are such jokes. "Lollipop" over "A Milli"?!?!? Come on. Very proud of Weezy though. I thought he didn't write songs ??? :o ;) Just because you don't put lyrics down on paper doesn't mean you're not writing songs.
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Post by OH SNAP! on Dec 4, 2008 17:50:39 GMT -5
I know, it was just a joke
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Post by Deleted on Dec 4, 2008 18:00:53 GMT -5
OK - I see what you did there.
Cuz I dont write s**t cuz I aint got time
There are so many Weezy h8erz on here that I guess I've grown defensive. I saw a comment from someone in the Grammy thread who was pissed about Wayne's nominations because "he doesn't have a good voice." Like bitch, you've totally missed the mark there.
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Post by OH SNAP! on Dec 4, 2008 20:10:02 GMT -5
Someone on here said that too in the Grammy thread
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Post by when the pawn... on Dec 5, 2008 14:14:33 GMT -5
I like Lil Wayne and Tha Carter III. I'm not suprised by the Grammy love and I don't mind it but I do think he's a bit overrated. He is creative and plenty unique but his lyrics can sometimes be immature and obvious IMO. I don't think he's the greatest rapper alive (Nas, Jay-Z, Kanye, Lupe).
I think he has a very good shot at winning all 5 rap grammys (never happened before - Kanye won 4/5 last year) but I'm kinda hoping Lupe somehow stops him, I think Lupe deserves all 4 he's up for. If he does win all 5 though, it'll be interesting to see if Coldplay can match them - I wouldn't be too shocked if they went 7/7.
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Post by Active Aggressive on Dec 5, 2008 14:23:11 GMT -5
Yeah, his lyrics aren't always on point, especially in the Carter III where they can be at their laziest. Oh wewl. I still got love for Lil Weezy F Baby but I don't think he deserves album of the year, by any means.
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Post by aaliyahoneinamill on Dec 7, 2008 12:12:44 GMT -5
I think lil wayne deserves album of the year because he worked hard, his album is the best selling album of the year, and it`s one of the most well recieved albums of the year.
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Post by musicaddict on Dec 7, 2008 12:14:06 GMT -5
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Post by Young Money on Dec 7, 2008 12:14:50 GMT -5
That is a fantastic reason.
Coldplay stole their hits. Wayne didn't :)
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Post by aaliyahoneinamill on Dec 7, 2008 12:17:56 GMT -5
hard work gets a lot of grammys
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Post by musicaddict on Dec 7, 2008 12:18:31 GMT -5
That is a fantastic reason. Coldplay stole their hits. Wayne didn't :) and the more reason to LOL at you replying to that.
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Post by aaliyahoneinamill on Dec 7, 2008 12:19:02 GMT -5
do yo have a problem with lil wayne?
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Post by Young Money on Dec 10, 2008 18:54:18 GMT -5
LIL' WAYNE THA CARTER III
#01 | 1,007,706 | 06/28 (PLATINUM) #02 | 0,308,505 | 07/05 #02 | 0,209,305 | 07/12 #01 | 0,156,370 | 07/19 #01 | 0,124,676 | 07/26 #02 | 0,105,490 | 08/02 #05 | 0,085,166 | 08/09 #05 | 0,078,742 | 08/16 (2X PLATINUM) #05 | 0,067,138 | 08/23 #06 | 0,061,662 | 08/30 #07 | 0,056,820 | 09/06 #06 | 0,054,030 | 09/13 #10 | 0,046,575 | 09/20 #08 | 0,047,345 | 09/27 #09 | 0,043,114 | 10/04 #11 | 0,035,556 | 10/11 (FUCK THE JONAS BROTHERS) #14 | 0,034,553 | 10/18 #13 | 0,027,229 | 10/25 #12 | 0,025,794 | 11/01 #10 | 0,025,384 | 11/08 #20 | 0,023,037 | 11/15 #19 | 0,023,960 | 11/22 #26 | 0,023,134 | 11/29 #41 | 0,022,853 | 12/06 #39 | 0,031,920 | 12/13 #47 | 0,023,358 | 12/20
TWENTY-SIX WEEK TOTAL: 2,749,947
Three weeks at #1 Six weeks in the top 2 Nine weeks in the top 5 Fifteen consecutive weeks in the top 10 (Sixteen total) Twenty-two weeks in the top 20 Twenty-three weeks consecutive weeks in the top 40 (Twenty-four total)
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Post by Wavey✨️ on Dec 11, 2008 2:03:29 GMT -5
This was the year for him.
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Post by Lowe on Dec 31, 2008 20:00:08 GMT -5
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Post by SHOOTER on Jan 1, 2009 14:57:59 GMT -5
Lil Wayne Doesn’t Think He’ll Win Any Grammys
QD3.com caught up with Lil Wayne after his show in Los Angeles to screen the latest cut of his documentary, 'The Carter'. The rapper was enjoying a massage while eating steak and french fries. Weezy talked about getting eight Grammy nominations, but suspected that he wouldn't win any. "Because you know politics," he explained. "I think they think it's just enough to nominate me or something. They'll probably give me one next year actually. Everyone's like, 'You gotta win one, that's why they nominated you for so many so they could have a reason to give you one.' I hope that's the case but I keep telling people I don't think they'll give me any, I think it's just a nomination. Not because of politics, only because there's a lot of great people in the categories and honestly, I don't think I did what they did."
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Post by Wavey✨️ on Jan 1, 2009 15:57:15 GMT -5
Weezy, your one of those great people! At least he's still happy to be nominated.
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Post by Young Money on Jan 1, 2009 21:43:09 GMT -5
Lollipop 3,161,234 A Milli 1,273,054 Got Money 1,185,532 Mrs. Officer 0,736,081
Most up-to-date digital sales for his Carter III singles.
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