Classics Discussion: Lil Wayne

[Inspect Her Deck]

Ok so some of y'all will be familiar with a project I'm deciding to run. I made this thread: The Official 'Classic Album' Discussion Thread, trying to reach a conclusion as to what defines a classic album. After much discussion, I am running with this definition personally, so take it as you will when you consider your classic albums. But this definition in particular was most agreed upon.

Classic: 1. An album considered by consensus of the core hip hop community to be of the highest quality (doesn't have to be perfect or flawless, just an album that the consensus deems the shyt).
2. Assuming that condition 1 is met, is this an album that has stood the test of time amongst the core hip hop community? Is that an album still held in high regard, still referenced at least ten years after its release? By a consensus of the hip hop community?

Props to @mobbinfms for the definition and also for his help generally in helping me with ideas to create these threads.

So I'll be going through one artist per day, and I will list out all their discography or close to all of it until the year 2005, as we decided that an album needs at least 10 years of existence before it can be called a classic or not.

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To help bring even more attention to these threads, I'm gonna create a hashtag (again props to mobbinfms for the idea) and I urge you guys to click on the tag and click on the option to watch the tag.

Here it is: #coliclassics

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Lil Wayne in da house! The best rapper alive, yup.

Vote!

I will be making a POLL. For each album I will present a YES or NO option so if you think that particular album is a classic, you click 'yes' on the poll for THAT album and vice-versa. The acceptance rate for an album to be deemed a CERTIFIED classic is 80%.

If you don't think an album is a classic, DO NOT LEAVE THE POLL BLANK. You vote NO for that album instead so at least we register your vote.

I will NOT count any comments in the thread as votes, you must use the poll. The comments section should be used for discussion only.

Tagging some mods:

@FreshAIG @That Singer Guy... @hustlemania @houston911 @SoulController

 

[KiD WavE]

c3 isnt in the discussion ?

2008 was long enough ago for us to be able to know if its a classic

 

[Inspect Her Deck]

#coliclassics

voted C2

doesn't get its due props

fantastic album, Wayne was on top of his game then

Tha Mobb

 

[Inspect Her Deck]

c3 isnt in the discussion ?

you posted faster than my customary 2nd post


and nah C3 was 2008

 

[mobbinfms]

No
No
No
No
And...
No

 

[KiD WavE]

you posted faster than my customary 2nd post


and nah C3 was 2008

aight I can understand that you had to draw the line somewhere


5 stars and daps for taking the time and effort to do this though

 

[Inspect Her Deck]

aight I can understand that you had to draw the line somewhere


5 stars and daps for taking the time and effort to do this though

thanks breh, we been consistent with the 2005 rule in all these threads, so yeah

if you want to keep up with them, follow the hashtag in my 2nd post in this thread

 

[str8up]

For me just Carter 2, the first one is borderline - I liked it more than Carter 3 but can't call it a classic

 

[BlackMamba824]

There was a time when I was a big Wayne fan, but it's a definite no for everything except the Carter 2. Ive been on the fence about that album, and although I can definitely say it has a lot of good tracks I'm not sure exactly what makes it classic. Now do I think it's better than some of the other albums that we've collectively voted classics?...most definitely...as of now, though, it's just Wayne's best album and also a very good album. Voting no, but interested in hearing from other people that voted yes.

 

[NoHalfWay]

I gave him C2 cuz that shyt was fiyah

Probably change my mind later

 

[wingstop]

carter 2 is the closest he has to a classic album, if you think about it his album discography is kinda trash

 

[BlackMamba824]

Just for the sake of discussion I always felt like Wayne didn't get the nationwide recognition he now enjoys/enjoyed until after C2. Yes, he proclaimed himself the best rapper alive since the best rapper retired on C1 and officially named himself that on C2, but at least at that time I felt like he hadn't quite hit that stage yet. A lot of my friends in college who weren't quite up on him like that still saw him as "the youngest guy from the Hot Boys". Growing up near/around that whole Cash Money wave I had to hear about Wayne being the best around the people I knew, but I feel like it wasn't until after C2 with the Drought series, all the features, affiliations with Dipset etc that everybody else took notice and took him seriously like that. Ironically, it was during this time I thought his music took a step back quality wise...

 

[MoneyTron]

The first two Carter were nice but not classics IMO. I'd rather judge Wayne off of his mixtape collection. Far better than his studio albums.

 

[2CT]

Wayne is the best rapper with no classic albums

 

[Deltron]

Gave it to the Carters.

not the biggest Weezy fan, but he made an undeniable impact with those albums