In New Jack City, “the Carter” was a crack factory fashioned out of a Harlem apartment complex, the cornerstone of Nino Brown’s business, essentially. My impression was always that he used his mixtapes as a testing ground for different flows, and weirder lyrics, and whatever worked for him would end up on one of those Carter albums.Ĭraig Jenkins: I think the answer to the question is in the name. If I had to get inside the mind of the Martian, I’d say the Carter series exists for whenever Wayne feels like acknowledging the commercial side of rap just so he can say he did it and still can do it, or so I would assume is the point of Tha Carter V. What does the Carter series mean in the context of Lil Wayne’s entire discography? Is he trying to do something specific with those albums? Does he succeed?ĭee Lockett: Well. They’re home to the most famous version of Wayne - the Wayne who gave us “A Milli” and “Got Money” and “Go DJ.” But what can looking back at the previous four installments tell us about Wayne as an artist? About how he’s evolved, and what his entire career means? Vulture editors Sam Hockley-Smith and Dee Lockett got together with Vulture music critic Craig Jenkins to discuss. Wayne is no stranger to album sequels, but his Carter records occupy a specific place in his staggering discography: they’re the big budget albums that draw in all of his wild mixtapes experiments.
After years of delays, Lil Wayne’s Tha Carter V is finally out.
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