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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 - (featuring Kidd Kidd/Bobby Valentino)
10. Let the Beat Build
11. Shoot Me Down - (featuring D. Smith)
12. Lollipop - (featuring Static Major)
13. La La - (featuring Brisco/Busta Rhymes)
14. Monster
15. You Ain't Got Nuthin - (featuring Fabolous/Juelz Santana)
16. Dontgetit
| Details | | Contributing artists: | Babyface, Bobby Valentino, Brisco, Busta Rhymes, D. Smith, Fabolous, Jay-Z, Juelz Santana, Kidd Kidd, Robin Thicke, Static Major, T-Pain | | Producer: | Andrews Correa, David Banner, Jim Jonsin, Kanye West, Play-N-Skillz, Rodnae, Shondrea Crawford, Swizz Beatz, T-Pain, Vaushaun "Maestro" Brooks | | Distributor: | Universal Distribution | | Recording Type: | Studio | | Recording Mode: | Stereo | | SPAR Code: | n/a |
Album Notes
Personnel: Eddie Montilla (strings, keyboards); Ludas Charles (keyboards); Darius Harrison (drums).
Additional personnel: Sha-Ron Prescott (background vocals); Pro-Jay, Robin Thicke, Cool & Dre, Jim Jonsin.
Audio Mixers: Miguel Bermudez; Andrew Dawson; Edward Lido; Fabian Marasciullo.
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.
Industry 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.
Wayne's supreme confidence as an MC dominates the album....His songwriting skills continue to get more thoughtful and focused...
'Misunderstood', based around the Nina Simone track, has lines that come straight from the heart, and the vital signs are strong...
There's some intricate art here: 'Dr. Carter' and 'A Milli' have bursts of spectacular rhyme...
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...
[T]he purest product of the most transformative, chaos-inducing man-made disasters of the 21st century -- New Orleans, hip-hop, and the Internet.
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...
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.
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