The hard part about listening to rap after Tha Carter III came out is that you don’t get to wait for Tha Carter III to come out. Because for like a year all I did was download Lil Wayne mixtapes and try to guess what would make the album. It got really bad I dreamed about making “Zoo” the first single or something, and “Something You Forgot” was going to be my favorite song. The fact he recycled that kitchen verse on “Playing With Fire” was like my crowning achievement as a Lil Wayne fan.
Do you see the effect this man has on me? I can’t write straight, that made so little sense.
What I mean about it’s hard listening to rap after Tha Carter III came out is I’ll look forward to something maybe a little, and then I’ll do the internet rounds two weeks before it’s release date and I’ll have it. I guess there were a couple fake Paper Trails but it took for-e-ver for Carter III to come out. And it wasn’t like “Oh man David Banner got postponed he’s my favorite dude” it was like “Shit I just wasted February.”
And the other thing is I half didn’t believe it would ever be released. I had this theory that Carter III was supposed to be a posthumous album, and that he was going to release mixtapes until he OD’d and then they would release it. So my anticipation wasn’t even that the album was coming out, I really thought Life After Death was about to happen.
But really the hardest part, and it’s sort of a combination of all this, is that he’s hibernating. His pre-Carter output was ridiculous, like 2 weeks between mixtapes. That’s the unexplainable part of my Weezy obsession, because it’s like what was I even waiting for there were new verses bi-weekly. He didn’t abstain for a year and bust a huge nut, this guy was in the proverbial studio bed nightly. So when the album finally came out sure there were a few surprises, but it was the exact same Lil Wayne I’d been listening to every day for a year and a half, just less gunshots. Where’s the new tapes I’m so lonely.
I don’t know what there is to look forward to anymore. PRGz just got a release date, so that’s only a matter of time. I’m so bored. Like I’m listening to Deep House and watching Jumpstyle videos and yeah there’s that feeling of discovery but it isn’t like Germany’s going to accidentally drink too much cough syrup and all I’ll have is the bootleg.
Duncan
James