| Tha Carter III | 
 enlarge | Artist: Lil' Wayne
Label: Cash Money Records
Category: Music
List Price: $13.98
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Avg. Customer Rating:  157 reviews
Sales Rank: 99
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
MPN: 001103302
UPC: 602517655188
EAN: 0602517655188
ASIN: B0013ABI48
Release Date: June 10, 2008
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 who's buying these cd's? August 20, 2008
i dont understand how he's over 2 million already.this album is mediocre at best.i'll admit he's got a couple of bangers but most of it is trash.honestly,i'd advise you not to waste your money.
 West remix is sick! August 20, 2008
Beats are tight! For just beats check out: Rap Beats Hip Hop Beats All Instrumental Music Volume 2
Something to blast in the car August 13, 2008
Excellent album. I play the whole thing almost everyday and i'm still not tired of it.
 WTF? August 12, 2008
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
This CD happened to be playing on the listening station at Borders as I was walking by, so I decided to put on the headphones to find out what is popular these days. OMG. First of all, I don't know what the hell it was. I thought it was supposed to be RAP, but what I heard was worse than the sound of my bassett hound hacking up a bad hot dog. It certainly wasn't anything close to music. I am SO glad I am not a young person these days being influenced by this garbage.
3 1/2 stars August 11, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Lil Wayne - Tha Carter III (Cash Money, 2008)
Mainstream hip-hop fans vs. underground hip-hop fans: can't we all just get along? I mean, is it cool to dig both Lil Wayne AND Little Brother? (Incidentially, Wayne did make a guest appearance on Little Brother's last album, suggesting that his appeal stretches beyond the Billboard charts.) Well, although I'm more of a fan of underground, indie hip-hop, I'll give credit to where it's due. Lil Wayne is a pretty nice rapper and he was even nice in 1998 when he was on Big Tymers' "Millionaire Dream". And although he hit a dry spell (namely during 2001-2003 when the Cash Money trend was dying and people were leaving the label), he reengerized and came with Tha Carter. That album wasn't all that great except for the song, "Ain't That a B***h", which was lyrically sharp. That set the stage for Tha Carter II, which found Weezy F. Baby finding his niche. Then came all the mixtapes and guest appearances on every song, occasionally making songs by nobodies sound better (i.e., Playaz Circle's "Duffle Bag Boy" and Shop Boyz' "Party Like a Rockstar" remix). With so much critical acclaim, of course there would be so much hype for the much-delayed Carter III.
There are a couple of hot tracks on here like "3 Peat", the inspired "Tie My Hands" and the David Banner-produced "La La". But the best song is the innovative "Dr. Carter", where Wayne plays a surgeon operating on wack MC's. Swizz Beatz (with a beat that is very uncharacteristic of him) takes a David Axelrod sample ("The Smile") and when the music intensifies, Wayne follows suit with his rhymes. The nurse then tells him of each patient's condition. If only all of Wayne's songs were this clever.
In fact, if Wayne could spend his time making actual songs, the album would be better. A lot of times, we find him just spitting off the dome, saying nonsensical stuff and lazily getting through a song, making tracks like Kanye West's "Let the Beat Build" good only because of the beat itself. Other times, he makes songs that scream, "My next single", like the subpar "Mrs. Officer" and the ringtone-friendly "Lollipop" (which was a single). Also, the last track, "Dontgetit", finds Wayne talking out his you-know-what about society today and why he hates Al Sharpton. Leave that conscious rap for Talib Kweli.
There are many times last year when Lil Wayne spit a rewindable lyric and you'll have no choice but to compare the songs on this album to those moments. Has he used up his best material already? It's hard to say. But Tha Carter III is still one of the better mainstream hip-hop albums of the year. [Earlier editions of this album also came with a bonus disc of his best mixtape songs, the highlight being "Kush".] -EJR
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