Track Listing
1. 3 Peat
2. Mr. Carter - (featuring Jay-Z)
3. Milli, A
4. Got Money - (featuring T-Pain)
5. Comfortable - (featuring Babyface)
6. Dr. Carter
7. Phone Home
8. Tie My Hands - (featuring Robin Thicke)
9. Mrs. Officer
10. Let The Beat Build
11. Shoot Me Down - (featuring D.Smih)
12. Lollipop - (featuring Static Major)
13. LA LA - (featuring Brisco/Busta Rhymes)
14. Playn With Fire - (featuring Betty Wright)
15. You Ain't Got Nuthin On Me - (featuring Fabolous/Juelz Santana)
16. Dontgetit
| Details | | Contributing Artists: | Babyface, Betty Wright, Brisco, Busta Rhymes, D.Smih, Fabolous, Jay-Z, Juelz Santana, Robin Thicke, Static Major, T-Pain | | Distributor: | Universal Distribution | | Recording Type: | Studio | | Recording Mode: | Stereo | | SPAR Code: | n/a |
Album Notes
Although his first studio album in three years has been long-awaited and repeatedly delayed, Lil Wayne has been anything but absent. Since THA CARTER II, Weezy has left an impressive mass of recordings--from mixtapes (authorized and otherwise) to guest appearances--in his wake as he blusters through the rap industry. In the third installment of the THA CARTER series, Wayne shows he's earned the right to ego-trip as he lets his off-kilter flow, freak-out lyrics, and vocal acrobatics run wild over 16 tracks. Scaling the heights of hubris on "Dr. Carter," he plays an MC/doctor treating a certain music genre diagnosed as lifeless and closes with a quintessential Weezy snarl: "Welcome back hip-hop/I saved your life." Wayne then shifts to alien-mode for the E.T.-inspired "Phone Home." Later on, he details his sexual conquest of a female cop on "Ms. Officer." As expected, THA CARTER III is rife with big name producers (The Alchemist, Kanye West, Wyclef Jean, David Banner, Swizz Beatz, will.i.am) and guest artists (Jay-Z, Babyface, Busta Rhymes, Juelz Santana, Fabolous, T-Pain) from all coasts.
Editorial Reviews
4.5 stars out of 5 -- His taste in beats and sounds is omnivorous, his crushed-charcoal rasp equally indebted to crisp East Coast complexity, Southern sing-song and his own warped imagination.
Blender
Wayne's supreme confidence as an MC dominates the album....His songwriting skills continue to get more thoughtful and focused...
XXL
'Misunderstood', based around the Nina Simone track, has lines that come straight from the heart, and the vital signs are strong...
The Wire
There's some intricate art here: 'Dr. Carter' and 'A Milli' have bursts of spectacular rhyme...
Entertainment Weekly
Ranked #2 in Spin's 40 Best Albums Of 2008 -- [With] rapping, Auto-Tune crooning, groping guitar strings, and rasping for air over a digital patchwork of beats and synths...
Spin
[T]he purest product of the most transformative, chaos-inducing man-made disasters of the 21st century -- New Orleans, hip-hop, and the Internet.
Spin
Ranked #3 in Rolling Stone's 50 Best Albums Of 2008 -- Lil Wayne's greatness lies not just in what he says, but in the way he says it...
Rolling Stone
4.5 stars out of 5 -- He really is the best rapper alive....As usual, Wayne's tumbling freestyle rhymes are full of imagination and surprise, but his voice itself is half the fun.
Rolling Stone
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