“The excessive leaks and bootlegging of Lil Wayne’s new album haven’t prevented it from being a hot seller: The rapper’s “Tha Carter III” sold 423,000 copies in its first day of release, according to Billboard magazine. With such sales, Lil Wayne is on pace to sell about 900,000 copies of the CD in its first week and post the best sales debut of the year. “

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 Lil Wayne’s new album, “Tha Carter” is dropping today, and all is not well in the land of music reviews.  While Los Angeles’s Power 106 gave the album rave reviews, MSN Music critics are not buying what Lil Wayne is selling.  I will admit that I have not heard the album yet, but I already agree with some of the comments from the review, which you can read below.  Lil Wayne has almost become a second generation Ja Rule, with all of his collaborations and budding acting career.    Read MSN.com’s review for yourself and if you have heard the album, let us know if we missed the mark and need to rethink this post. You can also sound off at our new gossip fourms at EvilGossip.net 

REVIEW:
Lil Wayne, “Tha Carter III” (Universal Motown)

More than most rappers, Lil Wayne is a master at self-mythologizing. Like his predecessors the Notorious B.I.G. and Jay-Z, Wayne claims of no longer writing down his lyrics before recording. Given the volume of record-stealing guest appearances and the flood of mixtapes since his last studio album, “Tha Carter II” (2005), that free-association songwriting approach seems all the more remarkable. So much so that he has claimed to be the best rapper alive.

Now with the release of “Tha Carter III,” Wayne attempts live up to his own hype, but falls short. The disc is a frustratingly uneven effort that’s filled safe songs aimed at commercial radio and a few quirky cuts that feature Wayne’s bizarre sense of humor and inflated opinion of his rap skills. The best of the latter is “A Milli,” a bizarre, breathless rundown of Wayne’s self-worth: “Threw the pencil and leak on the sheet of the tablet in my mind/Cause I don’t write (expletive) cause I ain’t got time/Cause my seconds, minutes, hours go to the all mighty dollar.” He gets conceptual on the jazzy, Swizz Beatz-produced “Dr. Carter,” on which he diagnoses and cures rap’s ailments. Later Kanye West lends a soaring soul sample under Wayne’s staccato, twangy flow on “Let the Beat Build.” And on “Phone Home,” he channels E.T. in a semi-robotic cadence: “We are not the same/ I am a martian.”

However, it’s obvious that Wayne’s rap ambition is more dependent on radio play than true experimentation. Hence, there are Auto-Tuned throwaway ditties — “Got Money” with T-Pain and the ubiquitous first single, “Lollipop” featuring the late Static Major. And he further tempers the out-there moments with conventional R&B hooks and smoothed-out grooves — Robin Thicke, Bobby Valentino and Babyface all make appearances. Ultimately the gloss seems to dull Wayne’s potential to be one of rap’s true innovators.

CHECK OUT THIS TRACK: On the clever “Dr. Carter,” Wayne plays Dr. Phil urging rappers to “stand out like Andre 3K” and then offers to put “more vocab in your IV.”

HipHopAllStarz.com

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Cash Money Brothers rapper and self proclaimed ‘pretty boy’, Lil Wayne just signed on to appear in the upcoming Fast and Furious 4 movie. Original cast members, Vin Diesel, Paul Walker and Michelle Williams are also rumored to be on board as well.  Whatever even happened to Vin Diesel?  Wasn’t he supposed to be the next big action star? 

NEway, looks like your boy Lil Wayne is following in the footsteps of Ja Rule with the acting bug and the collabos.  He’s also said to be appearing in the movie Patriots, which will star Forest Whitaker and is set to release in theaters this November.

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