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Tha Carter III Changed Hip-Hop Forever

The album that solidified Wayne as top five.

Josh Braggs

Sep 17, 2019

Oklahoma State

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It was the Summer of 2008, my siblings and I were riding back to my hometown in Texas. Before the road trip started, my dad stopped at Best Buy to get one of the most anticipated albums that will turn out to be the greatest album in Hip-Hop. That album was Tha Carter III. Soon as we got on the road, he put the CD in and the album began playing. From the the first song on the album, to the middle, and to the end was like listening to Shakespeare rap.

Tha Carter III was not like any other hip hop album; why? The album was different. What Wayne was rapping about was so relatable to everybody; not just in New Orleans; but everyone who experienced the same thing. With the wordplay on almost every song that will make you go over your head for a day or years that will make you say, " That's what he meant?!".

One of my favorite was ''Don't Get It''. The song was about being him being misunderstood and in the middle of the song, he starts actually talking about mass incarnation in the black community compare to a white man who didn't go to jail, but is a registered sex offender living right next to man. Then he dissed Al Sharpton. Also, he rapped about saving hip-hop's life on "Dr.Carter" where he was rapping as he was a doctor operating on Hip-Hop trying to keep it alive.

The crazy thing about Tha Carter III was that it wasn't the original Carter III. The original Carter III got leaked, so Wayne turned that into a mixtape called, "The Leak". One song I wish Wayne should've put on Carter III was "Gossip". With Lollipop featuring Static Major, a single from Tha Carter III and a song I had no business rapping when I was young, was a hit for Summer 2008. Freestyles and Mixtape had everyone wanting Carter III now! Tha Carter III sold a million physical copies in his first week, which was rare in the rap game back in the day. No Apple Music and no Spotify; either you went to Target, Walmart, or a local record store that was selling physical copies.

In conclusion, when the rap game was slowly dying and there was no hope left, Lil Wayne aka "Weezy F. Baby" came through with one of the greatest hip hop albums ever that put him in the position to be top 5. Without Tha Carter III, there wouldn't no be a lot of inspiration in the rap business nor a lot of big time artist.

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4. When you need to see an advisor, but they are too busy/unresponsive.

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6. When you have a perfectly planned out schedule, and one class ruins it.

7. Carefully moving things around to accommodate a different class/section.

8. Waking up at 6:00 a.m. for your enrollment time.

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