Lil Wayne first to sell a million since 2005

[That's Right]

the link

 

[CaboWabo]

never heard of him.

 

[Nuclear Bear]

In todays day and age thats absolutely incredible.

Its been a year since I last bought a cd.....and now that I think about it, it was actually the last Lil Wayne album.

The Carter III is pretty damn good.

 

[Upgrayedd]

If the music business was still working, if you can ever say it did work, "Shooter" off the Carter II should have been a giant crossover hit like "Hey Ya."

 

[TexonLongIsland]

who?

 

[That's Right]

I don't know if y'all are serious about having never heard of Lil Wayne, but I have honestly never heard of 90% of the bands that are mentioned on here for various reasons, even in "album or song of the year" threads.

 

[Horn-N-LA]

I only know of him because my friend shot his friend "Birdman" for a magazine or CD coming out. Of course he apparently is the one who gave us "Bling Bling" so I should have heard of him earlier.

 

[HornsHornsHorns]

Another nail in hip hop's coffin.

 

[l00p]

De La Soul is dead.

 

[Upgrayedd]

Here's the video for "Shooter"

Crappy vid, great song

Can anybody tell me why this was not a hit?

 

[JonathanMardukas]

I thought Trae's song "No Help" was pretty good, but it didn't even chart.

 

[AustinBadger]

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[Endust]

that the "Tha Carter III" has sold well is more of a testament to someone's marketing strategy than the strength of the album. Releasing all of those free mixtapes apparently enticed a LOT of people into buying his "real" release, which pretty much sucks. the whole genre is in a pretty sorry state these days.

The extent to which he rips off Kool Keith/Dr. Octagon is embarrassing.

It's pretty much a bust from the second track, where Jay Z whips Lil' Wayne's *** on a cameo.

I enjoyed Drought 3 so much that I went ahead and put $10 down, but the new album pretty much blows.

 

[Upgrayedd]

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[hookem2102]

Lil Wayne sucks and giggles likes a school girl for some reason.

 

[justobservering]

He's got a verse about VY on the new album (can't remember the track). Something like "And you ain't Vince Young, so don't clash with the titan..." That alone makes it a great album. But yeah it's just ok.

 

[RabidLonghorn]

Man that sucks.

 

[Nuclear Bear]

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[ADMIRALSTOCKDALE]

i wasn't a lil wayne fan before hearing that song, but now i'm even less of one.

 

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[Upgrayedd]

Ah, whatever. I should have known better than to come on a message board and say something was cool instead of slagging it off.

To me, that song sounds like Sly Stone meets the Beatles in New Orleans. But what do I know? I am just a freshly retired music critic.