Hey guys, I'm still alive.
Long story short, I had a throat infection for over a week and struggled to talk so that
was lovely.
But today, we will be talking about Tha Carter V, an album that honestly surprised me with
how good it was.
Wayne made a hell of a comeback with this.
So in this video, I will be telling you what my personal favourite songs from this project
are and why.
So with that being said, there's my social media accounts, follow me there and when I
hit 10k on them I'll follow a bunch of you guys back, and let's get right into this
video.
8 - Uproar
Now this song is probably about to become ten times more popular than it already is
due to Wayne starting a challenge based around this song, but I can't really complain about
that because this track goes hard.
The very upbeat instrumental combined with Lil Wayne's memorable flows during the chorus
makes it very easy for this song to stick in your mind, and it's one of the catchiest
songs on this project.
Lyrically it's very much a punchline and rhyme focused song, and it makes for a fun
track.
I wouldn't be surprised if Wayne's Uproar challenge helps this albums sales increase
past its already impressive numbers.
7 - Dope N***az (feat.
Snoop Dogg)
This is a great song overall, but the thing that got me most hyped was when the sample
of Xxplosive by Dr Dre came through on the beat.
I legit jumped up in excitement when I heard that, because that was one of my favourite
instrumentals on Dre's 2001 album.
Hearing it sampled here was so unexpected.
Snoop Dogg's voice works perfectly over this sample during the hook as you can imagine,
and it gives the song a really relaxed feeling to it.
And I particularly enjoy Wayne's second verse on here, where he talks about how the
people he grew up around, and how even though he was similar to them, he was raised to go
down a different path with his talents.
Oh and if I didn't mention already, the beat samples Xxplosive and it's so goddamn
nice on here.
6 - Let It Fly (feat.
Travis Scott)
I'm already a massive fan of Travis Scott's music, so this song basically scored points
instantly by just having him on here, and his performance is pretty great on this track.
He comes with this fairly unique delivery during the chorus where it's still very
much Travis's style, but he delivers his vocals in a noticeably different inflection
to make them stand out.
He also has a cool verse on here too.
Then Lil Wayne.
My god Wayne killed it on here, with these segments of never ending wordplay, using the
words "mind" and "line" in as many different contexts as he can think of.
The line wordplay got a bit far fetched in my opinion towards the last 1 or 2 bars, it
just dragged on a bit too long, but it's still very impressive and it's always nice
to see Wayne is still so sharp after all this time.
5 - Dark Side of the Moon (feat.
Nicki Minaj)
I think the best word for this track is soothing, if you wanna just sit back and mellow out,
this is the perfect song from this album for you.
Lil Wayne opts for a more laidback melodic delivery on this one, and gives us a really
interesting verse where he uses the world going through an apocalypse as a metaphor
for himself hitting rock bottom, but even in these times where everything seems doomed
he still has his girl by his side.
Then Nicki Minaj comes through to contribute to this idea with some nice metaphors of her
own, and goddamn her singing was way more on point than I ever thought it would be.
She genuinely sounds great on here.
It's a really cute track overall, and I love the creativity behind a lot of the bars
on this one.
4 - Used 2
This is one of the most intriguing songs in terms of the instrumental to me, because it
implements a lot of these slight changes as it goes on.
It generally stays the same, but more and more drums are slowly added to or dropped
out of the beat, and it means the song always keeps your attention because you're constantly
keeping a look out for the next change, with it happening more so during the first verse
as everything is building up.
Speaking of the production, this track also marks the first time that Metro Boomin has
produced a Wayne song.
Wayne himself comes with gripping verses, with his voice getting more frantic and intense
as the beat starts to build up.
It's a really engaging song, and I love the energy behind
this one.
3 - Dedicate
This song was great for so many reasons, but one of my favourite things about it is how
much Wayne references the large influence he has had over modern day rap culture.
He had his face tatted before every single up and coming rapper started doing that, and
he lets you know about it on here.
In fact, the hook on this song is a sample of a 2 Chainz song where he praised Wayne
for how he pretty much changed the game, and it's hard to deny the impact he's had.
Weezy also comes through with some attention grabbing flows and rhyme schemes on this track,
just peep the second verse where he maintains the same multisyllabic rhyme scheme for the
entire verse.
And then he continued the same rhyme scheme through the entire 3rd verse.
It's great.
And just to cement the fact that he is a well respected rapper, Wayne ends the track with
a sample of a speech where Obama complimented him.
This was his main flex track on here for sure.
2 - Let It All Work Out
Without a doubt this song contains one of the emotional highlights of this album, the
third verse on this one, it had ya boi tearing up a little.
You see, when he was 12 years old, Lil Wayne shot himself in the chest with his mother's
gun, an incident that he claimed to be an accident in interviews up until now.
In this verse, he reveals that it was actually a suicide attempt.
Now Wayne has mentioned that he attempted suicide before on the song Mad, but he didn't
go into to much detail and didn't mention that it happened when he was only 12 years
old.
It's heartbreaking to hear about, but Wayne turns it into a positive moment, saying how
things will always work out.
Just like many people, Wayne hit the lowest point in his life, and he shows with this
track that he bounced back from it in a big way.
It's a very hopeful message.
Top that off with a great beat and a beautiful chorus sampled from a Sampha song, and it's
something that is heartbreaking but uplifting at the same time.
Amazing stuff.
1 - Mona Lisa (feat.
Kendrick Lamar)
Now I've loved pretty much all of the tracks featured in this video so far, but this song
is on a whole other level of great.
It combines well crafted storytelling, intense deliveries and non stop flows all over a somewhat
low key but powerful beat, and it is brilliant.
Lil Wayne has some really hard hitting punches here, and there's so much wordplay that
I doubt you'll catch it all on the first few listens.
In his verse, he tells the story of how he robs a man by getting this girl he knows to
get close to this man and find out all his information.
It's a straightforward narrative, but the way Wayne tells it is really compelling, and
he sounds so invested in telling this story that it's hard to not cling on to every
word.
Not to mention some of his lines here are hilarious.
As for Kendrick, he came through with a pretty awful verse honestly, I don't know what
he was doing- of course I'm joking he absolutely f****** killed it too.
He told a different story, but with the main focus still being on a woman.
He goes through a range of emotions, talking about how he fell for this girl, then revealing
that he hasn't been faithful to her, but he hypocritically flys off the handle at her
for sleeping with rappers behind his back.
The intensity ramps up to the point where Kendrick's character kills himself in the
end, finishing the song off in a tragic way.
There's a lot to analyse through all the verses, and both rappers have incredible vocal
performances that fit the story they tell on here.
It's near perfect and makes for my favourite track on the album without
a
second thought.
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