Tha Carter III | 
 enlarge | Artist: Lil Wayne
Label: Cash Money
Category: Music
List Price: $13.98
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Rating:  7 reviews
Sales Rank: 162
Format: Explicit Lyrics
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.4 x 4.9 x 0.4
MPN: 001197702
UPC: 602517834866
EAN: 0602517834866
ASIN: B001E4IY3Q
Release Date: August 18, 2008
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Tracks:
| • | 3 Peat | | • | Mr. Carter | | • | A Milli | | • | Got Money | | • | Comfortable | | • | Dr. Carter | | • | Phone Home | | • | Tie My Hands | | • | Mrs. Officer | | • | Let the Beat Build | | • | Shoot Me Down | | • | Lollipop | | • | La La | | • | Pussy Monster | | • | You Ain't Got Nuthin | | • | Dontgetit |
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Amazon.com
Lil Wayne put out enough material in 2007 to inspire a Vibe magazine list of the 77 best Lil Wayne songs of that year alone. That level of output is the primary reason behind Tha Carter III's bumpy ride. The albums opens well with the appropriately boastful "3 Peat," followed by the symbolic torch-passing of "Mr. Carter," featuring Jay-Z. But nothing matches or exceeds that until the Swizz Beatz-produced lark "Dr. Carter" and the album's arguable high point "Phone Home." Framed by simple, bombastic beats from Cool & Dre, Lil Wayne argues in "Phone Home" that he's so far beyond the competition he's extra-terrestrial. Within that track comes a stellar example of how Weezy's reptilian flow can let an inspired aside such as "I'm rare, like Mr. Clean with hair" slip by almost unnoticed. But no artist this prolific can avoid dropping some duds amongst the winners. The disc's three monster hits sound silly ("Lollipop"), annoying ("A Milli"), and generally uninspired ("Got Money") when stacked up against the non-hits. David Banner's musical backing for "La La" provides the kind of brain-tickling inventiveness that Lil Wayne should always have in order to push his gift for verbal absurdity to greater heights. --Kris Kendall
Album Description
Tha Carter III is the sixth studio album by rapper Lil Wayne and it is the final album in Tha Carter trilogy. Originally known as the youngest Hot Boy, Lil' Wayne has orchestrated a steady stream of hits. The New Orleans rapper began his long career with Cash Money as part of the Hot Boys, a popular late-'90s supergroup consisting of Juvenile, Turk, and B.G.
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 The evolution of Lil Wayne January 8, 2009
Dereyck J. Moore (Marietta, GA United States)
In this era of iTunes and single digital downloads, I have to feel a strong sense of urgency to click "buy album" these days...Other than Jay-Z and Kanye West, the only other rap artist to complete this distinguished "move my mouse" triumvirate is "Mr. Carter" - aka Lil Wayne. Needless to say, this hallowed click comes with lofty expectations, and "The Carter III" does not dissapoint.
Most good action movies seek to smash your senses with the opening sequence. They make you sit up in the theater seat and say...."Whoaaa...Ok, Here we go!" Lil Wayne's phenomenal action film begins with the swagger-laced anthem, "3 Peat", and from there: its on. The music flows forth brilliantly, and serves up a wide array of clever beats and hooks to heads from one end of the genre to the other. Solid contributions from T-Pain, Busta Rhymes, Kanye West, Robin Thicke, and even Babyface (yep, that's right) make this album a definite mention in the Best of 2008.
While listening to Jay-Z and Lil Wayne since the mid-90s, I've followed the microphone progression and the skill advancement. While there are parallels, here's the difference: Jay-Z's 'pen' has always been most impressive, even before you knew who he was. His lyrical expertise was never in question..But Lil Wayne's entrance at the age of fifteen meant we would be allowed (if he stayed around) to hear his education along the way, and witness his advancement. But wait? Lil Wayne? Hanging around like L.L Cool J? Sure. Wait...But, Lil Wayne's advancement?
Well, here we are. His work has been solid, the production top-notch, he's done "sixteen bars" with the best of them --- you know, all the ingredients from the "Notorious B.I.G formula"... And at last, Lil Wayne has mastered the art of -- well: himself.
He has transcended the "New Orleans" rapper mantra, and now resides in a pantheon of elite status in the Rap landscape these days. If you think about it, he's not even a "Southern rapper" at this point anymore. Back to that whole mastery thing, he could have very easily branded the Lil Wayne ala Cash Money records in the late 90's. Hey, it was a winning formula right? Keep the flows steady, the beats would follow, and butts shall shake in the club accordingly. Instead, he evolved.
Evolving, while returning to the comfortable confines of Baby and Manny Fresh tracks along the way these past few years, just long enough to churn out bangers like "Stuntin' like my Daddy" and "I'm Ridin" in signature style. This time, Wayne has jam-packed "The Carter 3" with head-bobbers that speak to all styles all over the genre, while making each of them, all of them - his very own.
We should have seen this coming. Did we not know? We should have known with "The Carter II" being light years away from "The Carter" that the evolution was indeed taking place. Even with mixtape appearances, leaked joints, and EP's along the way, the same Lil Wayne seldom showed up twice in a collection of songs.
If your a casual fan, or a serious hip-hop enthusiast, "The Carter III" is Hip-Hop's kind of Hip-Hop. Lil Wayne has challenged himself to be better than his former self, and he wins. Again.
4 stars doesn't cut it! December 29, 2008
redhooded (USA)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
Lil wayne did a great job on this. Imagination, Hard work, Dedication all rolled out in this. To the hip hop world his names been around for awhile...he's going mainstream in a hardcore way. Forget what ya heard and listen to the track Mrs. Officer...I love it and can't stop humming it!
 Overdubbed gansta cRap December 18, 2008
RetiredB4U (Bellevue, NE)
8 out of 13 found this review helpful
When will we wake up from the 2000s and realize that the entire decade was made up of albums that sucked like Lil Wayne's Carter III? How can this be number 3 in sales rank? Because people with no true musical taste bought this MP3 album for $5 so they can be "hardcore" while driving in front of their high school in the morning and afternoons. This is one of the worst albums I have heard in a long time. It degrades women, glorifies the idiotic 'thug' life, and is more explicit than artful. Whoever labeled this as music was mistaken...it is pure cRap...it isn't even Rap music...there are a lot of kids out there who have been rapping or making music since they were 12 and they are much better than this 'thug' wannabe.
 nanna December 16, 2008
Mary Ann Scott (Rescue Ca)
1 out of 4 found this review helpful
I'm a 58 year old women and I think lil wayne is fantastic with his voice and his performances. The Mrs. Officer is the best ever lil wayne and valentino are just very handsome. I love the cd thanks mary scott
NOT IMPRESSED November 28, 2008
Supreme Clientele (U.S. of A.)
3 out of 6 found this review helpful
I understand everyone has their own opinions, but what I don't understand is why people love this so much. People brag how he's been rapping since he was 12, if someone's been rapping that long (for him over half his life) I'd expect them to be way better.
This album consists of him throwing out the most random words and phrases. He has absolutely no flow, he sounds bored, and he sounds like he's half asleep. Everything about this album is wack. Even the cover, which he blatantly ripped off from Nas's "Illmatic" / Biggie's "Ready To Die" / and Method Man's "The Prequal" ... Sorry weezy, but you're not quite on that level.
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