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(Long long post alert, but a good read if you like an old head’s opinions. Lol)
I thought FWA was 100% some of best shit. It has a very special place in my heart too.. that summer was amazing for me when it came out. I remember blasting on drive home from work every night in the warm summer evenings. Living Right was so dope at sunset (no homo). Such a great album.. real flashes of the Wayne I love from back in the day (but with a new twist).
I would post his prison output I would rank as follows:
1- Dedication 6/6R - no sequence or logic to the track list which is totally fine because it’s a dedication and they’re random ass fucking tapes lol, but it’s just bars bars bars. His best lyrics and most passionate rapping since 2009. First time I ever thought “I think Wayne has finally owned this new sound”.
2- FWA - best album (not project) since C3 when it dropped. Great vibes. Great hooks. Beautiful production. Wayne in good form on all but one or two tracks. This was all about that slow, old school flow I love so much - which is interesting because it came along in his fast phase. Although the second half of S4TW2 had that similar old flow so maybe it was a continuation of that. Either way, I love FWA. It’s like C3 sobered up. Lol
3- S4TW2 - immensely important project. It was the first time many of us felt hope again after those flashes of C5 greatness were lost. Most Wayne mixtapes feel totally random but this one actually felt more like an album than some of his actual albums!! Crazy. I wore this bitch out when it dropped. Great project overal.
4- S4TW - the only post project which holds the distinction of sounding officially like “the old days”. This tape’s DNA can be traced to the classics like DD3, D2, C3, NC... not on that level but definitely solid and the very very very last of its kind. It was a little bit like an island itself too, because it was sandwiched between two much, much worse projects: IANAHB (part 1) and C4.
5- NC2 - ugh. This one was not a good one for me. This was way too long with way too much misused auto tune. Funny, D6 is almost like a correction of NC2: similar flows but he got the lyrics better on D6 with less auto tune, harder bars, and the project was smartly divided into two volumes to make it more digestible (and desirable). NC2 was like an early blueprint for what D6 would nail perfectly. But there were definitely some nice highlights that showed Wayne was working his ass off in the stu’!
6- D4 - people think i am crazy but I’ve always enjoyed D4 more than D5. For me, D5 had higher highs (fuckin problems, cream, type of way, you song) but the lows were rough as fuck. And it was mostly lows. D5 was not the most inspired project. Once again overly long and not enough substance. D4 on the other hand was three things: (1) a breath of fresh air after the boring passionless C4, (2) a batshit crazy exercise in overreaching to prove relevancy.. which kind of worked, (3) a lyrical shitshow, overflowing with disgusting amateurish “single entendre” sex lines but just as many hilarious, clever, classic Wayne one liners.. if you could catch ‘em fast enough. D4 was also mixed and mastered poorly, only furthering its infamous legacy as the black sheep of the D series. I don’t throw on D4 much but it’s always fun when I do. Stupid shit, but fun.
7- D5 (see D4 review)
8- C4 - boring flow, the first sign there was a problem brewing. The fall off point from which we are still recovering. Few decent tracks but it was like a ghost of Wayne stood in for him. 6’7, mega man and a couple others were dope but overall a poor excuse for a
Weezy album, let alone a Carter installment.
9- IANAHB2 - rock bottom. I don’t know if this was a joke or something but it was a disaster. Don’t need to elaborate. If you know, you know.
I think that covers it.
Eh...I'd put IANAHB2 over D4 and C4 and D5 over that, but otherwise I'm witchu.
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