Now look--bring in the 18 year olds that are going to say "he makes party music, who cares.

" But go sit in the f*cking corner young one, I've been listening to this guy since you were sucking on your mommy's tit, so its time for the grownups to tell you why this album sucks. Just shut the f*ck up and listen, maybe you'll learn something.
I've listened to every Lil Wayne song that he's ever put out.
Every Cash Money album--from True Story to Let Em Burn.
Every Young Money mixtape.
Every Sqad mixtape.
The hour long freestyle session.
His rock projects.
Everything. And not after the fact, but as it was happening.
This album is complete, effortless, sub-par music.
It continues the run he's on these last few years of, in my honest opinion, listening to the people like ME who always said he was great, instead of listening to the people in this thread that always said he was garbage. I've been defending that young man for damn near a decade and a half, and as his fame grew, so did his hunger--until he leveled out and lost that drive.
So where does that leave this album: it's just so far beneath where he should be right now if he still wanted to be "the best rapper alive."
The only 2 tracks that stood out to me on the entire album were Days and Days, and Back to You.
Not because they were good, but because the samples that were lifted came from such amazing tracks, they only highlight how lackadaisical Wayne is as a musician right now.
Back to You:
How can HE take THAT track... how can HE rap over THAT sample...
and he's rapping about girls hair cuts?

- This is a man whos father was killed when he was a kid
- who was a millionaire before he was 18
- who was touring the country and had fame and fortune, for all intents and purposes lost it when the hot boys split, rebuilt his image and his brand, and became the biggest celebrity in the world.
- been to jail
- almost died TWICE now--from drugs, and yes, shooting himself
- has done every drug on the planet
- has been to every continent 10 times over
- has had a kid since he was a kid
and he gets that sample laid at his feet, and he's talking about women's hair cuts? at this point in his career?
I would kill a close family member to produce a Lil Wayne album.
And I don't mean "produce" like make beats, I mean
produce like come in the studio, drop his 80 garbage songs that he made that week in the trash, hand him a notebook, and say, write about your father, and I don't mean Baby.
It's never been about him being the BEST lyricist, it's been about his unique voice, the way he can make any song come alive. But since Mannie left Cash Money, I feel like Wayne has never felt truly comfortable in the studio--enough to talk about crazy sh*t on records.
Whatever man. PM me if you want to make a historic concept album Wayne, I can get you the album you need so you can ride off into the sunset on a handful of percs and a fifth of jack
