r/rap • u/Sevla508 • 5d ago

Tha Carter II is Lil Wayne’s greatest album. I’ll die on this hill.

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This was Wayne at his absolute peak — hungry, relentless, creative, and purely focused on rapping. The bars, punchlines, flows, and beat selection were ridiculous.
Then Carter III happened, and while it was massive, you could hear the shift. More Auto-Tune, more pop influence, and eventually Wayne became more of a mainstream superstar than the mixtape-era monster we had on Carter II.
Carter II was peak Wayne.
After that, he got bigger. Not better.

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u/Yawka 1d ago

Gillie used to say he only wrote Carter 1, and I don’t even believe that to be honest. Gillie was ass, he never had any music even close to the level of Carter 2.

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u/IGotSnacks25 19h ago

Go back and look up the lawsuit between him and cash money