Lil Wayne "Classics"

[bhawks24]

Let's see everyone's list of list OFFICIAL of Lil Wayne classic albums and mixtapes
(Empire leaks and unofficial compilations excluded)

- Dedication 2
- Drought 3
- Tha Carter II
- Tha Carter III
- No Ceilings
- D6 & Reloaded (counts as a double disc to me)
- Tha Carter V

This should cause a lot of debate. Two projects that I almost included are Tha Carter IV which had the mass popularity, but the quality was not consistent enough, and FWA has the consistent quality, but it was overlooked by the general public.

[martian master]

- Dedication 2
- Drought 3
- Tha Carter II
- Tha Carter III
- No Ceilings

agree on these

[mania983]

agree on these

do you think anyone has more classics than Wayne?

[Blu]

Carter II
Dedication 2
Drought 3
Carter III
No Ceilings

HM: Tha Carter, S4TW, Carter IV

[jhoya101]

do you think anyone has more classics than Wayne?

jay when it comes to the general population

and to the general pop for wayne 5 1/2

dedication 2
da drought 3
tha carter ii
tha carter iii
no ceilinngs
we are young money

but as far as to me based on just quality not how well it was perceieved

dedication
dedication 2
da drought 3
tha carter ii
tha carter iii
no ceilinngs
tha carter
suffix
like father like son
we are young money
sorry for the wait
blow

waynes discography is really crazy. d6/6r and d5 are almost up there

[Tha Mobb]

Carter II
Carter III
Dedication 2
Da drought 3
No Ceilings

These should be the undisputed ones among every wayne fan imo

Just wish I'd see more of C2 or C3 being listed as classics among general hip hop

[mania983]

jay

and to the general pop. 5 1/2

dedication 2
da drought 3
tha carter ii
tha carter iii
no ceilinngs
we are young money

but as far as to me based on just quality not how well it was perceieved

dedication 2
da drought 3
tha carter ii
tha carter iii
no ceilinngs
tha carter
suffix
like father like son
we are young money

hm: blow, dedication, sftw

you kidding, right? Jay has 2 classics - RD and The Blueprint, the only ones that are close to Wayne are Eminem and Kanye

[KingEz514]

you kidding, right? Jay has 2 classics - RD and The Blueprint, the only ones that are close to Wayne are Eminem and Kanye

????

American Gangster?.... Black Album?.... You good bro?

[Yuvic01]

Carter II
Drought 3
Dedication 2
Carter III
No Ceilings

[mania983]

????

American Gangster?.... Black Album?.... You good bro?

i'll give you The Black Album, but not American Gangster and yes, i'm good. Still, Wayne has more classics

[jsharma17]

Tha Carter III
Da Drought 3
Dedication 2
Tha Carter II
No Ceilings
Drought is over 2
Drought is over 4

Personal classics I'd say Dedication 1, Like Father Like Son, T-wayne

[martian master]

i'll give you The Black Album, but not American Gangster and yes, i'm good. Still, Wayne has more classics

black album
RD
BluePrint

even his S. Carter collection tape id consider classic... was huge when it dropped for a rapper of jays level to do a tape
And its on multiple best mixtape lists

watch the throne classic as well


american gangster can be argued.. as time past the music aged wonderfully. it wasnt recieved well but looking back - alot have changed their mind on it. and it is still a relevant, talked about album today

eminem has 3 (sslp mmlp em show)

kanye 5 as well

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hm: blow, dedication, sftw

blow aint official wrote a long post about it

6 years later but I did some more research into this.

So the first time we heard Wayne reference "I Can't Feel My Face" was on the W. Carter Collection Vol. 2 mixtape with DJ Mick Boogie that was released in early May of 2006. We know this tape is official because Lil Wayne says so on the intro of the tape. Furthermore, on track 13, "Interlude", Wayne says "I Can't Feel My Face featuring Juelz Santana mixtape out right now". Now, Blow was not released until August 2006 so it couldn't of been Blow he was referencing. Before Blow, a mixtape titled "I Can't Feel My Face - Advance" was circulating on the internet and featured all the exclusive songs off of Blow - but unmixed and raw. I still have a copy of it but to this day still can't figure out exactly when it was released, but considering what Wayne says on W. Carter Collection Vol. 2, it must of been around May 2006.

Fast forward to August and the Blow mixtape came out. On the official MixUnit posting for Blow in 2006 (MixUnit was the authority of mixtapes back in the day - they're still active today) it says "Mick Boogie hooks up this tasty with two of the hottest names in the game, Lil' Wayne and Juelz Santana, and brings the official I Can't Feel My Face prequel mixtape."
, which makes it sound official. This post was made August 22nd, 2006.

Also in 2006, Wayne and Juelz would go on tour with Ne-Yo and Chris Brown. I found the article @Leaff quoted in the first post of this thread and in it Juelz says "We was doing a mixtape at first, but it got leaked on the Internet, so we decided to say “F**k it”, ya dig? N***as want the album, so we gonna officially put it out. We still haven’t officially put out our version of the mixtape either. It’s still just a leaked version of the mixtape so we gonna do our version. We got it getting mixed down right now, so we gonna put out the mixtape with all our drops letting the people know we gonna do the album. It’s probably gonna be a Gangsta Grillz or DJ Khaled, something like that. It may even be Green Lantern, we don’t wanna leave anybody out so everybody gonna be involved at the same time because Green Lantern did the “Rubber Burnin’” beat. Drama and them n***as do beats, so we gonna include everybody in everything. It’s official like a ref with a whistle.". Earlier in the article it says "After getting everyone to whistle along to his infectious runaway single, Juelz got a coveted spot performing next to artists such as Chris Brown, Lil Wayne, and Ne-Yo on the Up Close and Personal Tour. It was in the luxury of the Lakeshore W that Juelz hid himself from the brisk Chicago air the day after the all-star lineup performed for the city, reminiscing about how he got to where he is today and shedding some light on what the future may hold.". I found the dates for the tour and they came to Chicago Sept 17, 2006 - so this interview was done Sept 18, 2006. This is where it gets weird. "Blow", a mixtape assumed to be official, came out almost a month before that, and Juelz is saying that there's no official "Can't Feel My Face" tape.

Then in December 2006, Lil Wayne and Raj Smoove released "The Carter Files" mixtape, that we know is official, due to Wayne saying it on the intro. On track 8, "Carter Talk Part 3", Wayne says "You got I Can't Feel My Face mixtape out right now, and then you got the official "I Can't Feel My Face" mixtape coming out later on.". Earlier on in the same interlude Wayne says to go buy Like Father, Like Son, indicating the album was out at this point - so this must have been recorded after October 2006 - 2 months after Blow, the "official" "Can't Feel My Face" mixtape came out.

Also, in early 2007, Wayne was featured on the "Street Talks DVD Volume 13". In an interview on that, Wayne said that "I Can't Feel My Face" was going to be a mixtape, but it leaked before they could put it out officially, so they decided to make it an album - again no reference to Blow.

In addition, the "Weezy Speaks" interlude on "Blow" is a mash up of various interludes Wayne did with Mick Boogie on their official tape "The W. Carter Collection Vol. 2". If you listen to the skits on that tape you can tell the one on "Blow" was spliced together from those. Juelz's skit is from a tape Mick did based around Jim Jones in 2005.

So at this point, I'm not sure tbh. There was a mixtape before Blow with leaks, and I assumed originally they compiled the leaks officially for Blow - but Juelz and Wayne don't seem to know Blow came out. I reached out to DJ Mick Boogie hope he hits me back.
@Leaff @hawth33 @Caesar @Danny M what you guys think

SOURCES:
ICFMF Advance: felipe: juelz Santana's Discography
MixUnit Post About Blow: https://web.archive.org/web/20061022...oogieblow.html
Juelz Interview About ICFMF: https://allhiphop.com/features/juelz...EuVQA8oCU7uwA/
Wayne & Juelz 2006 Tour Dates: Ne-Yo to Co-Headline 28-City "Up Close & Personal Tour" with Chris Brown
Wayne Interview About ICFMF Leak:https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_c...&v=cZy03jjijUY
Wayne Tape His Interlude is Spliced From: https://www.datpiff.com/Lil-Wayne-Th...xtape.696.html
Juelz Tape His Interlude is Spliced From: https://music.apple.com/us/album/the...nual/560158288