Let's anticipate Lil Wayne, "The Carter III"

Let's anticipate how long before his next arrest...

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080123/en_nm/rapper_arrested_dc

http://articles.citypages.com/2008-01-09/music/the-efron-scandal/

i still don't totally buy this, wtf

dude

i mean:

"What's up, my nigga?'" Efron says, giving Wayne a pound, a hug, and then, to my astonishment, a full-on kiss reminiscent of the one Wayne famously gave his surrogate father Baby last year. (Needless to say, it's clear that Efron is going to have to work harder to squelch those rumors surrounding his sexuality.)

this was proven to be fake a while ago

i actually WANTED it to be real! oh well.

is "ben westhoff" ethan's pen name?

still, it was funnier than this:

http://voguingtodanzig.blogspot.com/2007/06/political-song-for-paris-hilton-to-sing.html

where's Arms when you need him?

http://www.fmqb.com/Article.asp?id=567285

Although Lil Wayne's Tha Carter III has been delayed numerous times in the past six months, it is finally expected to come out in March or April. The new album's official single, "Lollipop," features Static and reportedly will be serviced to radio shortly. And while Wayne is always in demand to do collaborations on other people's records, his own album is loaded with special guests too, including Hurricane Chris, Corey Gunz, Tyga, Jibbs, Shanell, Kidd Kidd, Mack Maine and Lil Mama.

"It's one of those albums people are really waiting on, so I made it so that whatever is on it will stick with you forever," he told Billboard.com. "I'm taking my time with it. And I'm giving artists I respect and people I want to do songs with -- not songs the label fixed -- an opportunity to collaborate... I think this album is going to be one of my best albums. I'm a true perfectionist. I might have to work out a deal with Universal to shoot a video to for all these songs, that's how crazy they all are. Every one of them is a movie."

Yet another report w/ a different lead single title, and a really weird guest list. Still, giving all the features to one-hit kiddie rappers would be in a weird way honoring his roots, and would probably still be better than the usual "anti-climactic song with Jay-Z, anti-climactic song with Eminem" formula that you get with most would-be blockbuster rap albums these days.

corey gunz!!! hahahe he must read bronxrap.com too

he's missing skyzoo and papoose though

that's the same guest list that was in the billboard article, but the billboard article made it seem like those were other ppl in the "lollipop" (<-this is gonna suck so much, esp. if it's anything like "grown man") video rather than ppl on the album

wtf @ guest list

i read that when it came out in the city pages and it was just like...what? it seemed like something you'd read in one of those local college onion clones or something, just dumb and a waste of a page

nah, Billboard article doesn't say they're all on that song:

The new album's official single, the Deezle-produced "Lollipop," features Static and will be serviced to radio shortly. A video for it was recently shot in Las Vegas. Other guests on the set include Hurricane Chris, Corey Gunz, Tyga, Jibbs, Shanell, Kidd Kidd, Mack Maine and Lil Mama. Jim Jonsin, the Alchemist and Cool and Dre contributed production.

I'm not gonna assume the song is garbage just because it's called "Lollipop," but yeah that's not an encouraging title. But I still kinda like the idea of Wayne embracing his role as the first "Lil" rapper to make the A-list and going back and encouraging the current ones coming up.

lil mama is great

save it for the teenpop thread.

OR FOR THE "SHAWTY GET LOSE" THREAD

"SHAWTY GET LOOSE" THREAD TOO!

I only save Yankovic.jpg for the "Shawty Get Loose" thread.

i'd be curious to know this:

do even the most ardent wayne fans actually think this is going to be close to a classic by now?

i mean, is it even going to be an above average major label rap record?

executive producer: george lucas

i don't think there is any way he has it in him to top tha carter II or even dedication 2. i think you define his career on those two, and since i'd say carter II is the best rap album of the decade and dedication 2 almost (almost) as good, it's obvious where i stand.

will he even ever have a single as good as "go dj"?

i don't think there is any way he has it in him to top tha carter II or even dedication 2. i think you define his career on those two, and since i'd say carter II is the best rap album of the decade and dedication 2 almost (almost) as good, it's obvious where i stand.

-- J0rdan S., Tuesday, February 5, 2008 2:56 PM (4 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

how the fuck do you define Lil Wayne's career without a single Mannie Fresh beat?

do even the most ardent wayne fans actually think this is going to be close to a classic by now?

i mean, is it even going to be an above average major label rap record?

-- M@tt He1ges0n, Tuesday, February 5, 2008 7:29 PM

not classic, but possibly above average.

how the fuck do you define Lil Wayne's career without a single Mannie Fresh beat?

-- Alex in Baltimore, Tuesday, February 5, 2008 2:02 PM (46 seconds ago) Bookmark Link

i love mannie to death but wayne's first great album was also post-mannie fresh. but what i meant was, i think general consensus (besides a few outliers either way) is that his albums up to tha carter II range betwwen okay and good but not great and he either elevated himself to the next level with tha carter II/dedication 2 or he kinda continued on that "yeah but where is his classic?" plateau

btw i should have said "defines his solo career" bcuz cash money group stuff is a different issue

lol @ 2 good-song-having-ass The Carter II being the pinnacle of rap

-- The Reverend, Tuesday, February 5, 2008 12:08 PM (44 seconds ago) Bookmark Link

wrong thread?

-- BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Tuesday, February 5, 2008 12:08 PM (26 seconds ago) Bookmark Link

wrong thread

-- The Reverend, Tuesday, February 5, 2008 12:09 PM (0 seconds ago) Bookmark Link

lol @ 2 good-song-having Graduation being the pinnacle of '07

gtfo

carter 2's got at least, like, six good songs.

Okay, maybe, but "Fireman" and "Shooter" are the only songs there I've ever given a damn about and I'm not even sure I still give a damn about the latter. "Fireman" fuckin slays, tho.

Carter 2 = too long, improves the closer you get to the end

I think I bought that CD at the wrong time (i.e. after hearing tracks from Da Drought 3 + other mixtape stuff) because to me Lil Wayne sounds better on other people's jacked tracks.

you probably don't like rap if you think "tha mobb" isn't fire

i'll revisit C2 tonight, who knows, i might feel differently

I can't even remember what the rest of the album sounds like, I just don't remember enjoying it at all, so I'm not going to argue about individual songs.

fair enough

Hustler Music, Receipt, and Best Rapper Alive are probably tops for me. And Shooter, but I played that one to death.

The backbeat on Tha Mobb is kind of distracting to me, I think it's jacked from the last note of Heart of the City?

"Hustler Music" = zzzzzzzzzz

appros of nothing, i'm thinking of starting an Infamous Mobb thread

I have to say I'm glad that Swizz is supposedly gonna have some production on Carter III. Wayne was so good on the "It's Me Bitches" and "Just Fine" remixes that I really wanna hear them do a proper collab.

"Hustler Music" = zzzzzzzzzz

-- The Reverend, Tuesday, 5 February 2008 20:22

does it take great effort to be this rong or does it come easily to you

i know right

Tha Carter is so clearly the pinnacle of Wayne's career.

nothing about it holds any point of interest for me, the lyrics, the production, the performance, nothing xxp

lol at rev

er i mean HOOS

it justs sounds like a completely forgettable album track that was picked as a single for who knows why

i wish his voice still sounded like it did in tha carter era. also "bm j.r." is probably one of my 3 favorite wayne songs ever.