best song on Tha Carter III

top 5

1. nuthin on me
2. a milli
3. mr carter
4. tie my hands
5. let the beat build

i feel kind of leery about voting for a song where wayne has the best verse out of the three but whatever

still don't get they hype about "dr. carter", the concept is pretty ok i guess but i don't even think he pulls it off that well. i remember alex saying that he liked it cuz it finally makes wayne stay on topic, and ill buy that, but it's one of the best examples of post-dedication 2 wayne ending up with a middle of the road song cuz he drags down a bunch of great lines ("fly go hard, like geese erection", of course) with a bunch of really questionable bullshit ("mr jeezy will stitch your back up the nicest!", "and that's called recycling!" etc)

I love the recycling bit, it's like the most sincere defense of lyric biting ever. and it's just a great beat and I love the way he weaves around it.

top 5 at the moment:
Dr. Carter
Let The Beat Build
Comfortable
Tie My Hands
La La

i was pretty disappointed when i found out that he recorded "tie my hands" something like 2 years ago, cuz it really seemed like an oasis of clear headed wayne among all the songs where he raps like he does now

i actually remember thinking the first time i heard it, "wow, it sounds like he recorded this like two years ago!"

favorite: let the beat build
surprised i like it so much maybe secret favorite: mrs. officer

i like shoot me down a lot

This is the thread where I realise I've been listening to the wrong leak of this album as I don't actually have the first or last tracks. I knew I should have read that mammoth thread.

Anyway, You Ain't Got Nuthin.

my favourite verse right now is 'la la'

shoot me down

1. Milli, A
2. Let The Beat Build
3. Lollipop - (featuring Static Major)
4. You Ain't Got Nuthin - (featuring Fabolous/Juelz Santana)
5. Dr. Carter

I'm underrating "Comfortable"

mrs officer

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"Shoot Me Down." The terrible guitar solo is endearing!

For having such terrible guests on paper, Mrs. Officer and Tie my Hands are much better than I expected. The former is funny, the chorus makes me love the song, and the siren thing is pretty sweet. And I actually like Robin on Tie My Hands better than Wayne - he seems a bit predictable on there. But the songs I expected to hate are nice.

Biggest Let-Down - La La. Him and Busta at their best should combine to make the zaniest hard rapper ever (considering Don't Touch Me brought old Busta back, it could have happened) but they failed. And the beat is terrible IMO.

Favorite: Let the Beat Build. Oh, there's my sam-PLE!

I hated "Shooter" but I really don't see how Robin Thicke is a "terrible guest on paper."

Didn't like "La La" at all at first but every time a DJ puts it on now I like it more, definitely one of Wayne's best verses on the album.

actually, on paper, when i saw "tie my hands" (ft. robin thicke) on paper, and i assumed that it was a song about kinky sex w/ a whiny robin thicke chorus, i thought it was going to be for sure the worst song on the album, so i kinda get what skygreen means

as for "la la", lots of ppl i know irl hate on that but to me the song has the only beat on the album that really matches with the famed martian reputation/motif that wayne has cultivated, those kinda creepy backing vocals make me picture this little ewok army or something

which is a BAD THING

did you know the loop in "A Milli" is a jabba the hutt sample

i know you're joking but it still blows my mind that that's Phife

yeah, I had just assumed is was some (either current or canonical, maybe even wayne himself) southern dude

its not phife! its some toaster on the beginning of remix whose name we don't know ---- probably sampled from another record. right??

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lQtMvJ1kdXQ

in fact bangladesh could've gotten it from the same place tribe did, wherever that was ---

dude, it's phife

doing patois?

or carribean accent rather

sounds nothing like him

right, just like he did on a whole bunch of other atcq tracks

xp it sounds exactly him wtf are you one

hmmmmmmmmm

haha one

one on

strikeout doesn't really work on the letter e

OK I believe it!! he is from Trinidad, which I didn't know, plus I think he says "phife on the microphone" there at the beginning of that track --

man.

or his folks are from Trinidad or something. Wikipedia says Trinidadian-american

he was born in NY to Trinidadian parents

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Neither "Got Money" or "Tie My Hands" got votes in either poll.

makes sense, i love both of those but neither are really OMG THE BEST.

someone thinks 'playing with fire' is the best though :/

I've really started digging Phone Home - so funny!

Why does everyone hate lollipop so much?

"Mr. Carter"

i think i voted lollipop

I think Comfortable is my favourite.

La La got 2 votes? It's unlistenable!

lil Wayne blows and is boring

http://www.collider.com/uploads/imageGallery/Verdict_The/the_verdict_collectors_edition_dvd_paul_newman__large_.jpg

i'vbe beeen in a lot of aweomew movies

milli a milli a milli a milli

obviously i am betraying the fact that all i listen to is top 40 radio nowadays but lollipop and got money are fuckin jams, haters to the left

wow you guys are pretty butthurt about people not voting for singles in this thread considering that the worst song on Tha Carter III thread also exists.

also "La La" is totally one of the best songs on here, even with the shitty Brisco verse.

yeah i never got the hate about that one as i noted upthread, busta on point too

Maybe because it sucks compared to "La La La."

Maybe because it sounds like the Rugrats theme or some shit.

wow you guys are pretty butthurt about people not voting for singles in this thread

yeah, but I'm pretty butthurt about almost everything on ILM these days....

"Tie My Hands" = biggest grower of the album

I was pretty let down by "Let the Beat Build" when I finally heard it

ok holy shit is "Lollipop" great; I know this is old news but I'm just getting around to this record now. "Tie My Hands" too but damn I love "Shooter" so this is like pt 2.

The banjo in the still worried me, but that was pretty cool.

i wish i'd have seen this thread - i'd have voted for got money

heard a radio dj drop "comfortable" today during a mix & it sounded kinda perfect

can't believe briscoe is on this album

rick ross, tip, stunna and fat joe and i can't--can't--can't believe briscoe

Surprised at the lack of love for '3 Peat' here. But the winner won.

"Comfortable" was so great. did the chorus come from an actual Babyface tune or was it just for the Wayne song?

just for the wayne song

's a great chorus.

lollipop still dope
dont get why ppl hate on that. prototype for a lot of singsongy rap yeah?

i always liked Lollipop....think some people got burnt out on it what w/ how many remixes of it there were. the last time I heard it in a club it went over huge

yeah those opening boopboopboops are the shit

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=biVETVmwxgg

JJ, giving Lil Wayne the Gorillaz Demon Days treatment. All it's missing is a Booty Brown verse

"Lollipop" is an A+ classic joint

the only song I really can't stand at all from Carter III is Miss Officer, there are others I'm indifferent to but they're inoffensive to me.

Naw, "Mrs. Officer" is cool.

16. DontGetIt 1

I don't even remember this song.

i honestly rarely made it that far on the album when I ever spun it after the first few listens.

"DontGetIt" is the tedious "Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood" sample joint where he talks about Al Sharpton for like 5 minutes after the song ends

lollipop still dope
dont get why ppl hate on that. prototype for a lot of singsongy rap yeah?

― geeks, dweebs, nerds & lames (D-40), Sunday, May 1, 2011 10:12 AM (11 hours ago) Bookmark

a lot of it for me is that it just goes on & on & on, but even if it was 3 minutes instead of 5 i think melodically it's weak and wayne's voice has a really unpleasant texture to it, overall just kind of a sickly anemic little song.

the song holds up really well imo that said yes it is 2 mins too long

"DontGetIt" is the tedious "Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood" sample joint where he talks about Al Sharpton for like 5 minutes after the song ends

― some dude, Sunday, May 1, 2011 6:29 PM Bookmark

oh, right

no way 'lollipop' is better for feeling that it goes on & on imo

u dont want dreamlike euphoria to zip to a 3 min conclusion, u have to let it ~marinate~

also dont understand 'melodically weak,' shit is insanely catchy

Are any others besides "Mr. Carter" not joke songs?

"Comfortable" into "Dr. Carter" is the shit.. And then "Shoot Me Down" going into "Lollipop" is nice.

I don't really listen to anything else on this album.

"Comfortable" would've gotten my vote if I knew the song prior to 8/21/08.

deej otm

i know you're joking but it still blows my mind that that's Phife

― some dude, Thursday, August 21, 2008 2:03 AM (2 years ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

O_O

Can't believe a whiney didn't know tbh

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3DMWVxVWeos

shit even i knew that

looking for that led me to this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tCSvz4iC9_A

XD XD XD

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Y5QAAySycM

there was a time when this was my favorite rap album

what is your favorite rap album now?

lollipop was a great single. in that song, and many others from this era really goes great stuff with his croaky vocals.

when i was a freshman in college, lil wayne was a rare point of agreement between me and the mostly libertarian frat bros on my floor. they admired how many drugs he took and how little he was said to sleep. to them, he was sort of a folk hero.

the big flaw here is "phone home."

i don't know what my favorite rap album is now. not this one.

carter II is still in the running for mine tbh