Even Drake and WondaGurl can’t save ‘Used To’, a song saddled with Riff Raff bookends ‘No Haters’ and ‘Admit It’ don’t fare well either. Whether he’s inverting the baking soda bombast of ‘Coco’ and taking shots at Cash Money, laying down lines like “I’m a verbal disease, I’m allergic to me / Been a turd on these streets since my curtains was sheets” on ‘Shit’ or remaking ‘Drunk in Love’ with girlfriend Christina Milian, Wayne still has it.įreestyles of ‘Hot Nigga’, ‘Try Me’, ‘Tuesday’ and ‘U Guessed It’ are solid (if a bit late) it’s the originals that seem half-baked. Sorry 4 The Wait 2, Wayne’s latest effort to tide fans over until the release of Tha Carter V, doesn’t change the conventional wisdom. the abysmal ‘Start A Fire’), skills needed to finish long-promised albums. What has been in question is his sense of what makes a song or a hook memorable (e.g. Over the last year, Lil Wayne has proven that his rapping ability hasn’t been snuffed out by strong weed, cups of lean and too much time on the half-pipe his appearances on songs like ‘D’usse’, ‘My Nigga’, ‘Senile’ and ‘Face Down’ show glimpses of the best rapper alive.
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