And when the titanically jittery drums kick in, the string of possessed one-liners that follows puts the song in the same league as those older ones. Opener "I'm Me" starts with tinkling ominous piano and stray vocal samples from past Wayne hits ("Go DJ", "Fireman"). And even at his laziest, he's still riveting.īut first the great. And even if every song on The Leak finds Wayne sticking to his usual talking points, finding even more clever and circuitous ways to let us know how fly he is, his voice has more urgency and determination than he's shown in recent months. So it's oddly reassuring to hear Wayne deign to finish a few actual songs, complete with verses and choruses and intros and everything. But by the end of the year, he appeared to be losing steam on the November mixtape The Drought Is Over, he busied himself playing around obnoxiously with T-Pain's autotuner effects, and the actual rapping was, by Wayne's high standards, exhausted and uninspired. He'd sacrifice none of his demonic magnetism if he just kept rapping at that level forever. His weeded-out free-associative signature doesn't need to conform to old ideas about song structure to do its work on last year's double-mixtape bonanza Da Drought 3, he mostly just followed his muse over every half-decent recent beat he could find, letting the overblown boasts and batshit similes flow freely.
#LIL WAYNE THE CARTER 3 ALBUM LEAK HOW TO#
One of the common critical complaints against Wayne is that he can rap but that he doesn't know how to make songs. The Leak EP is a meager offering: five songs, ranging in quality from absolute bangers to intriguing sketches, which tell us little about how The Carter 3 might eventually sound. And then, on Christmas, a new Lil Wayne EP hit online stores like iTunes and Amazon with zero fanfare, without even Wayne's face on the cover.
But The Leak never came instead, we got a new solo album from Birdman, Wayne's shitty half-rapping father figure. Late in 2007, he said that he'd end the year with a compilation album called The Leak, clearing away all the best tracks that have trickled past the lax security at Cash Money's offices in preparation for the real thing.
He says he's keeping demand up by making us wait, while message-board gadflies speculate that he just isn't cut out to make a classic full-length album. Tha Carter 3, his long-awaited follow-up, should've arrived months ago, but Wayne keeps pushing it back. Even though he's spent the past couple of years flooding the market with mixtapes, he hasn't released a proper solo album since Tha Carter 2 in 2005.
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