shame... because 2007 was the last vestige of lyrical lil wayne. 2003-early 2007 was his prime and after that it all went downhill year after year
now truthfully 2007 was when things started to go awry for tune because he had transitioned from his best iteration birdman junya to the martian (by we are young money album it was the abysmal tunechi). the martian persona began on tracks like thank god i'm famous, nikka wit money, and donks off rah smoove tape. all of them were AMAZING performances and paved the way for nicki's roman zolanski persona she began to craft under wayne as early as can't stop won't stop. "you'll be harry potter and i'll be hermione!!!" those three mixtape records were all blassic performances from wayne. i still listen to them religiously. absolute genius...
but the problem became that wayne got arrogant & stuck in that martian persona and started to slack lyrically. he never depended on punchlines from 2003-late 2006. it was more subtle fly shyt than punchlines because they just are not wayne's strength. so with the martian came a lot of wack similes like we heard on drought 3 which i consider the last vestige tape from wayne; and the start of being very gimmicky-bells-and-whistles over substance. but when you're the hottest artist on the entire planet who gon tell you to change it up b? lmao... so, by the time you got to the carter 3 it was really bad bars from wayne. was it losing mickey factz, spitta, and gillie's pen also? i dunno..
do it for the Coli you b*stard.
