Wayne goes hard in a way thatвЂ™s comparable to Ghostface KillahвЂ™s Supreme Clientele (a rap album that, swear to God, has been lyrically compared to James Joyce), spitting out phrase after phrase of pure eccentricity while still keeping his flow tight and his meaning intact. He ends the song by confirming that heвЂ™s himself, only times three. Haters will point to rapвЂ™s history of violence and claim that he's just riding another trend, but when have we heard someone go wild like this? Later in opener вЂњ3 Peat,вЂќ he talks about the impossibility of getting on вЂњhis levelвЂќ (hint: you would need either a) a space shuttle or b) a вЂњladder thatвЂ™s foreverвЂќ). Not only in WayneвЂ™s distinctively bizarre vocal delivery, but also in the fact that one of the first lines on the album is about вЂњshooting up grandmotherвЂќ and getting вЂњ baby mother fuckedвЂќ. But it does something unforgivable on mainstream radio-it dares to be strange. The former, on first glance, seems a little easier: this album contains all those trendy вЂњmainstreamвЂќ things like Auto-tune and T-Pain and talking about bitches and money and bragging and whatnot. One of the most fun things about Tha Carter III is precisely that: attempting to work out both how it got so popular and how it became such a compulsively discussable record. Then we all realize that this the album with that вЂњLollipopвЂќ song on it, which once again begs the question: how does this shit work?

something that gets reassessed annually by us music nerds).

something that sells a s hitload) and вЂњundergroundвЂќ (i.e. Which is to say: this is one of those instantly divisive records that manages to blur the dichotomy between the вЂњmainstreamвЂќ (i.e. Throw nearly any one of these tracks on at a party and youвЂ™ll get the same fevered rap-a-long response, but this is also a record that can be talked about on end for hours-what it means in the context of mainstream rap music, how it takes вЂњmainstream rap musicвЂќ and devours it and swallows it whole, and how, seven-figure sales notwithstanding, itвЂ™s really f ucking weird. Man, how does this sh it work? Tha Carter III is one of those albums that takes an unbelievable amount of liberty with its artistic and aesthetic choices yet comes out all the more вЂњfun,вЂќ or вЂњaccessible,вЂќ or whatever it is that gets an album to one million copies within a week.

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