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Lil Wayne on stage at the 2017 Billboard Music Awards.
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Lil Wayne on stage at the 2017 Billboard Music Awards.
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After years in the proverbial purgatory of hip-hop, Lil Wayne finally released his long-awaited album Tha Carter V, just after his 36th birthday.
CV, the fifth installment in Wayne's Grammy-winning Wayne series, which began in 2004, has almost become a fable of pop culture on the perils of music industry politics, after years of legal battles with his Cash Money Records boss.
Few aspects of the album sound like hip-hop-circa-2012, when the project was unveiled for the first time. It is clear from the production of beat, the subject of Wayne's verses and the panoply of rappers featured among the featured artists that it is not a body of music that picks up dust somewhere in Cash Money's offices. ; As trap and rap-rock rhythms have become the dominant hip-hop sound over the last four years, Wayne has been listening. The feature films in this 23-track album range from longtime names Snoop Dogg, Nicki Minaj of Kendrick Lamar and Wayne Money to big names in culture like Travis Scott and the late XXXTentacion.
Weezy spends twice as much time on rapping on "Let It Fly," bragging about staying resilient on "Can not Be Broken," but passes by to let Kendrick shine on "Mona Lisa". Wayne's own daughter, Reginae Carter, sings the captivating chorus on "Famous," while Weezy rhymes about becoming a foreigner over the years.
As described in a recent Display panel profile, Wayne addresses his childhood suicide attempt on the disc "Let It All Work Out" on a sample Sampha that serves not only the closing of the album, but as the most sincere revelation of the project.
"I woke up, the blood was all around me / it's mine, I'm not dead but like I was dying / God came to my side and we talked about it / He m & Sold another life and made a prophet "Wayne.
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