Still, the tumult of years passed undoubtedly left its mark. Lil Wayne is back on center stage, back on top. It doesn’t matter that his first retail album since 2013’s desultory, depressing I Am Not a Human Being II is haphazardly sequenced, with the best tracks arriving somewhere in the middle and the end, and that its 87 minute running time can barely be consumed in one sitting. His place on rap’s postmillennial Mount Rushmore is assured. He is as much of a hero to a certain generation of rap fans as Jay Z and Rakim once were. All that was missing for me was more tracks where Wayne is just snapping with bars, but we received that last year with Dedication 6 so I'm not tripping (if you haven't listened to that tape then go do it now).If the celebratory reception surrounding the long-delayed Tha Carter V proves one thing, it is how much Lil Wayne is truly beloved. He showed on this album why so many artists are influenced by him and the amount of new artists he's birthed (Lil Uzi, K Dot, Young Thug, etc.) A true genius and trend setter, I will always appreciate what he's done for the culture. Travis Scott where Wayne snaps and shows everyone why he was proclaimed best rapper alive for so many years (and still is to me). Mona Lisa is a hip hop classic and my favorite track right now is Let It Fly Ft.
Almost every feature on here delivers (Kendrick, Travis Scott & Snoop Dogg, XXX are the stand outs for me). and the project feels like a culmination of his past projects (drawing from I Am Not A Human Being, Dedication, Carters, even the Drought 3). We got different sides of Wayne, introspective Wayne, story teller Wayne, romance Wayne, etc. fan, I thoroughly enjoyed this album from beginning to end. We got different Speaking from the perspective of a true Dwayne Michael Carter Jr. Speaking from the perspective of a true Dwayne Michael Carter Jr.
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