Rapper Lil Wayne finally got released from his musical exile which was forced on him by his feud with his by former CEO and mentor Bryan 'baby' Williams and was allowed to drop his highly anticipated album The Carter V which went on to do a whooping 480,000 1st week sales and made it to No.1 on the Billboard hot 200 albums list according to Nielsen music turning out to be one of the best comebacks in a while seeing as his exile ran for almost 5 years, Wayne 1st had to find his way out of his cash money deal legally, 22 songs from the album went on to debut on the Billboard hot 100 which is a record tie. Only other albums that topped The Carter V are his protege Drake's album "Scorpion" and La flame's (Travis Scott) album.
In the past few years Wayne gave us a couple of mixtapes even though they weren't touching his mixtape form from 2005-2007 the Free Weezy mixtape was exclusively released in 2015 under TIDAL platform but didn't receive enough acclaim especially compared to his previous standards, in 2013 he also released I am Not A Human Being which moved a poor 217k but we Weezy Stans can finally say Wayne is back with his most recent release.
In less than 1 month after settling his dispute with Cash Money he announced the album and started the rollout, the 1st means we got to know of the album was through his Billboard cover story and a video that let us know the album was dropping on his birthday( Sept 28)
Not forgetting the fact that it had been a drought from Wayne and his 2017 dedication 6 project which according to critics was sub par this much expected comeback has been everything we imagined
My personal favorite "Let it All Work Out" the track where he bares a tale of a failed suicide attempt from his childhood memory, He Had hinted it on his 2016 song with Solange "mad" but this time he clearly references putting the gun to his chest and shooting, also claims he tried to kill himself cause him Mother tried to stop him from doing music and this is a double entendre to his battles with his former CEO to whom he was so close he called daddy as above mentioned.
The track with late XXXtentacion "Dont Cry" captures pain. On the other hand he has Houston native Travis Scott on "Let it fly" as he fades the song out, He picks one with Snoop dogg as well on which he samples "Bumpy Laments"
He goes on to feature his daughter on "famous" and on "new dope gospel" he says "Thank God weezy's back"
After we waited for almost half a decade it is resounding to have The Carter back, Lil Wayne also embraces streaming era and still proves to be a goat under the streaming rules with the songs with Travis, Kendrick and XXXtentacion features being the most streamed
He also proceeded to post a video of his children turning up to uproar maybe a model similar to what his Young Money artist Drake did with the "In my feelings" challenge.
Though the album might not be as good as the other ones from the Carter series, it is a solid work and the best since I Am Not A Human Being. In my opinion and the opinions of all the other 483million streams the song raked in its 1st week only coming 2nd behind Drake his protege who pulled 745.9 million even though he is a guy who boomed from the physical sales era selling over a million sales in 1st week. The internet and all his fans took a stand to root for him all over again and this wouldn't be so if he didn't deliver under The carter imprint which has high standards. .jpeg)
I know someone is wondering why I wrote this long ass write up but go on and listen 