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Lil wayne tha carter iv4/6/2024 ![]() This is more than a crowd-pleaser-there are tactics, careers at stake here. Here, he claims as if he’s an emcee just starting out, “I’m a diamond in the rough like a baby in the trash” (“Megaman”). On the pre-album mixtape Sorry 4 the Wait (2011) we get “all my hoes dirty like welcome mats”: good-time wordplay from Mixtape Wayne. This is Weezy standing over his nascent, Utopian hope like a 5’6” Colossus over Rhodes. And here is Tha Carter IV, which is, more than anything else Wayne’s released, an album-length look at one emcee’s ability to utterly remake the world in his image, to write more arresting and psychologically rich lines in his unhindered, aphoristic cadence, cackling while the vistas crumble and then speaking the fetal civilization back into being. Although he doesn’t boost a cut’s energy like Busta, or slosh it in paint like Nicki, or infuse a certain, necessary levity like Ludacris, what he does better than any other is filter a song through his unique sensibility until it’s unrecognizably anyone else’s out the other end, unexpected metaphors and non-sequiturs each a miniscule prism refracting the Top 40 into something surreal, something existential. There’s never been a guest rapper like Lil Wayne. ![]()
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