Billboard Hot 100 Top 10:
1- "Girls Like You" - Maroon 5 featuring Cardi B (=) -- I'm mad at Lil Wayne right now. He has a huge album bomb with "Tha Carter V," tying Drake's record with 22 new songs on the Hot 100, while also becoming the first artist to debut two songs in the top five (he also ties Drake with four debuts in the top 10), but among all of that, he CAN'T manage to steal the top spot from Maroon 5. Adam Levine and his pretend band have the radio to thank for this one as the song charts the radio charts for the 11th straight week. The song is No. 8 on sales and No. 19 on streaming. So SOMETHING is going to top this soon, because that radio is slowly declining. But what? For now the song celebrates its third week on top after spending 14 weeks between No. 2 and No. 4 prior to that.
2- "Mona Lisa" - Lil Wayne featuring Kendrick Lamar (new) -- Lots of Lil Wayne down below, so I'll keep this brief. Lil Wayne teams up with Kendrick, which he actually did like four years ago, but could never release the song due to legal issues. The timing is certainly helpful to Lil Wayne's chart success with this song as four years ago there was no way in Hades that this song would come anywhere close to debuting at No. 2. But Kendrick got it there. The song itself isn't that good. Both of these artists are capable of a lot better. But I'll easily take it over most everything else rap related in 2018.
3- "Lucid Dreams" - Juice WRLD (-1) -- With Lil Wayne dominating the charts, I'm not sure exactly what Juice WRLD's numbers are this week, but I'd take a guess that this has a shot at jumping up to No. 1 because "Girls Like You" is sliding quite a bit while "Lucid Dreams" is at the least remaining consistent. Will it get to No. 1 next week? I hope so.
4- "Better Now" - Post Malone (-1) -- Post Malone is also a good candidate to jump up on the charts. I don't think he has enough momentum to sneak past Juice WRLD, but I could see Maroon 5 falling below both of these songs. Although Post Malone did just barely release his music video for this song last Friday. I don't know if the view count thus far is enough to push it ahead (it has around 9 million overall, but Billboard only counts U.S. views in their formula), but that might give it a decent boost.
5- "Don't Cry" - Lil Wayne featuring XXXTENTACION (new) -- The second new Lil Wayne song. And this is the most frustrating song because XXXTENTACION was added to this song AFTER his death rather then this being something pre-planned prior to him getting shot. So this was done solely to cash in on X's death to get more streams and sales.
6- "SICKO MODE" - Travis Scott (=) -- With two new Lil Wayne songs debuting ahead of this, this song staying equal from last week is a bad thing. That means it's the fourth highest charting song not from Lil Wayne, which means this has a chance to jump into the top five next week when Lil Wayne falls.
7- "Uproar" - Lil Wayne (new) -- Out of the four songs that debuted in the top 10 this week, this is the best of the bunch. It's nothing super special, but if this was pushed as the actual single from this album once everything falls after the album, I would totally accept that. Better this than other songs that have charted.
8- "Youngblood" - 5 Seconds of Summer (+2) -- This was great news for me this week. There's only two songs that ROSE on the Hot 100 this week and "Youngblood" was one of them. Jumping two spots when Lil Wayne debuted three songs ahead of it means that this is the fifth highest charting song not from Lil Wayne. Could it jump to the top five next week? I hope so!
9- "In My Feelings" - Drake (-5) -- It brings me much joy to see that Lil Wayne destroyed Drake this week. This song was losing momentum pretty quickly, so it was probably on its way out regardless. But Lil Wayne seems to have pushed it out the door. And that's great because the world could use less Drake at the moment. I wouldn't be surprised to see this stick around next week if the three Lil Wayne songs all fall out, but I would be ecstatic if this was in fact this song's final week in the charts.
10- "Let It Fly" - Lil Wayne featuring Travis Scott (new) -- Don't let the "Lil Wayne featuring Travis Scott" thing fool you as this is more of a Travis Scott featuring Lil Wayne. And Travis Scott's portion is awful and annoying. More on that below. But can we take a minute and celebrate the fact that Lil Wayne debuting four songs in the top 10 this week means that he pushed out "I Like It" by Cardi B, "I Love It" by Kanye West, "Killshot" by Eminem and "FeFe" by 6ix9ine? What a solid purge! Granted, some of those songs unfortunately might be back. But not "Killshot" or "I Love It." Both of those songs tanked hard. For the sake of curiosity, had Lil Wayne not debuted this week, No. 7 would be "I Like It" by Cardi B, No. 8 would be "FeFe" by 6ix9ine, No. 9 would be "Happier" by Marshmello & Bastille and No. 10 would be "Taste" by Tyga. That is, those are the next four highest charting songs on the Hot 100 not by Lil Wayne.
Rising on the Hot 100:
13- "Happier" - Marshmello & Bastille (+2) -- Yup. Only one song in the rising songs section of this week. And I'm pretty happy that it's Marshmello and Bastille. In fact, this song and "Youngblood" are the only two songs that rose at all this week. And as I just said above, "Happier" is the ninth highest charting song this week not by Lil Wayne. That means it has a solid shot at sliding into the top 10 next week. It would be a welcome entry to a top 10 that's struggled mightily in 2018 to provide us with quality.
New Arrivals:
2- "Mona Lisa" - Lil Wayne featuring Kendrick Lamar -- Before we begin this venture into Lil Wayne's new album "Tha Carter V," allow me to give my quick thoughts on Lil Wayne. For me he's a rapper who simply exists. He's like a chameleon who blends into his background in that he can be as good or as bad as whoever he is collaborating with that day. Honestly I don't hate his sound or his style as there have been plenty of songs where he's featured on where I think he's done an excellent job fitting in. Honestly I really love his parts on David Guetta's "I Can Only Imagine" as well as Kevin Rudolph's "Let It Rock." He can also drop in on other pop songs and fit in well as the featured rapper in the third verse. But then he'll have no qualms jumping in with Nicki Minaj and doing something as disgusting and perverse as "Rich Sex" from earlier this year. In fact, he has no qualms singing about anything or singing with anyone as he's a quantity over quality sort of guy. His 22 new songs this week puts his all time Hot 100 entries count up to 166 songs, which is third all-time behind Glee Cast (207) and Drake (188). So when you do THAT many songs and you're not inherently annoying with your voice or style, every once in a while something's gotta show up that's at least tolerable, right?
Onto the album, though. Which, by the way, this is my first time listening to an actual Lil Wayne album, so don't ask me how it compares to his previous albums. I have no idea. This song is one that intrigued me for the sole purpose that Kendrick Lamar is a featured artist. I figure if Kendrick is with Lil Wayne, then there's potential there. And, well, the rap is good from both parties. If you play this in a room as background music, I'll be able to tolerate it, which is a step above most rap these days. But this is a really long song where Lil Wayne and Kendrick are telling some sort of story about a mysterious girl. I tried to keep up with it, but I got lost as both of them just seemed to wander on a lot longer than they really needed to and I never fully understood what the point was here. So this is a song that just kinda exists, much like most of Lil Wayne's career, which is disappointing in the sense that Kendrick is capable of doing stuff that is super deep, personal and interesting. But I just got bored this time around. Do we chalk this up to the song being recorded several years ago? I don't know. But I wonder how different this would've been if it was recorded earlier in the year.
5- "Don't Cry" - Lil Wayne featuring XXXTENTACION -- How many more songs from XXXTENTACION are we going to get? If he has more songs that he was planning on releasing, then I think that's just fine. But this is an instance where I'm annoyed because X's part was added to this song AFTER he passed away. That feels like they were trying to feed off X's death to boost their sales, which I think is pathetic. Not Lil Wayne's fault, though. Apparently he didn't even know who X was when people came to him with X's part, suggesting to include it, so they did. And if it weren't for that verse from X, maybe I could tolerate this like I do "Mona Lisa," but said chorus is super annoying and loud. It feels like it was attached afterwards to use X's death to boost the song's sales. Lil Wayne's part, which is 95 percent of the song, is alright. But I watched Lil Wayne's interview with Jimmy Fallon where he talks about his writing process. And his process is that he doesn't write his music. He goes into the studio and raps about what is on his mind. With "Don't Cry," it feels like there was a lot on his mind the day he recorded this and there's no real focus as he's just bouncing around about various subjects that trouble him. Certain portions of those lyrics I found interesting. But the song as a whole isn't interesting and it's made worse by X's annoying chorus.
7- "Uproar" - Lil Wayne -- Wikipedia seems to think that this is the first single from "Tha Carter V." I tried searching to verify that beyond Wikipedia, but couldn't find anything. If that's true and this sticks around beyond the album bomb this week, I suppose I'll be fine with that. This is simple song that sounds like it was recorded live in concert. I'm kinda thinking it wasn't and that the crowd noises were added afterwards for the effect of it. That combined with the instrumentals from Swizz Beat make this a catchy song if you ignore the lyrics. And Lil Wayne doesn't destroy the vibe with his lyrics, but he also doesn't bring much to the table as this seems like it was intended as a simple party banger. In that context, it kinda works, so I'm going to say this song is totally fine, even though it's nothing super special.
10- "Let It Fly" - Lil Wayne featuring Travis Scott -- Our fourth song that debuted in the top five feels more like a Travis Scott song that features Lil Wayne as it's all Travis Scott until just under two minutes in when Lil Wayne finally decides to come in on his own song, that barely tops three minutes. So its a two-thirds Travis, one-third Lil Wayne ratio here. In that light, Travis Scott is a useless, untalented rapper going along with all of today's modern rapping trends that bug me. His part is nothing but bragging about money, fame, drugs and everything that goes with that. Thrown in there are a lot of echoes that drive me crazy. Thankfully Lil Wayne comes and saves me from Travis Scott as his verse at the end is at least void of all the echoes. But he doesn't really add anything. It sounds like he recorded a quick verse for a Travis Scott song where he put no effort into. He repeats the word mind a lot in his verse, adding a whole bunch of rhyming words to go along with, thus creating a near endless stream of I sounds. That was kind of annoying. But less annoying than everything with Travis Scott.
14- "Dedicate" - Lil Wayne -- Here's a song where Lil Wayne decides to pat himself on the back a bit. He samples a 2 Chainz song where 2 Chainz is praising Lil Wayne. The song also ends with a sample of a 2009 Barak Obama speech where Obama says that we can't all be LeBron or Lil Wayne. In other words, Lil Wayne is emphasizing his dominance and influence on the rap game while seemingly throwing shade at Migos. Not only is the song structured like a Migos song, with short, simple phrases (though thankfully without the echoes and sound effects), but there's a direct reference to "Walk It Talk It" by Migos. But whether Lil Wayne is throwing shade specifically at Migos or simply other rappers in general, he's seems to be trying to put them in their place by reminding them how much better and more influential he is than them. And it kinda works. But I got more distracted with how many s-words he dropped in the second and third verses. Since I listened to the clean version of the album, there was a lot of empty, censored spaces which I think made the flow of the song crash. But his bragging felt like it actually had a bit of weight to it. More so than most other rappers who spend all their time bragging. So take that for what its worth.
17- "Can't Be Broken" - Lil Wayne -- In dedicate, I felt that Lil Wayne's bragging had a bit of weight to it. This song feels the same as "Dedicate," but with less weight to his bragging. Although it's more of him saying you can't break what can't be broken. In other words, his haters aren't going to bring him down. But his two verses sound more like him rambling incoherently and it doesn't feel like he's responding to anything specifically, but rather is simply just talking about the subject for the heck of it. The verses are separated with a chorus that sounds like it was from the Chipmunks. I think it's a high pitch voice filter and the singer is Thomas Troelsen given the uncredited vocals, who helped write and produce the song. It's super distracting.
24- "What About Me" - Lil Wayne featuring Sosamann -- Initially this was supposed to be a Drake feature, but that fell through last second, so whoever Sosamann is, he got put on instead. I could've looked up who Sosamann is, but I don't really care since his verse is more of an afterthought anyways, just repeating almost verbatim what Lil Wayne says on his verse and chorus. But this song is actually pretty decent. Lil Wayne is sad that his girl is spending more time with another guy instead of spending time with him. The song is a bit overly simplistic as there's not a whole lot of depth or details on exactly what's going on or who this is about, but it's a slower song from Lil Wayne that almost sounds more like a lamenting pop ballad instead of a rap song, so I kinda like it.
26- "Dark Side of the Moon" - Lil Wayne featuring Nicki Minaj -- Of course there has to be a collaboration with Nicki on this album. And I was bracing for the worst because every time these two get together, it's usually to rap about a bunch of dirty nonsense. So why should this be any different? Thus you can imagine my surprise when this also wasn't a rap song. No rapping from either Lil Wayne or Nicki. This is a pop love ballad. I don't think this really them singing to each other, but they have great chemistry and it's a fairly sweet love ballad, even though I'm not sure what the purpose of the backdrop being an apocalypse where the world seems to be getting destroyed. I guess they're going for more of a "our love is intergalactic" sort of thing. Regardless of what happens, they'll always be together. As pertaining to Nicki, I've always said that I hate her rap, but when she delves into pop, she's a pretty good pop singer. She sounds a bit like Rihanna or Beyonce in this song as she has some great vocals. I'm trying to come up with negatives for this song, because I was ready to destroy it, but I think any complaints here are more superficial. It make take a while to truly sink in, but I think this is an excellent love ballad. Well done, Lil Wayne.
27- "Take Taki" - DJ Snake featuring Selena Gomez, Ozuna & Cardi B -- There's three new arrivals this week that aren't Lil Wayne. This is the first of the bunch. I'm not surprised at all to see this song here as the lyric video was trending on YouTube for a while and the official video debuted two days ago. According to numbers by Kworb, it was the music video on YouTube with the most views in the last 24 hours, so there's good potential for it jump next week. Although in terms of YouTube, since Ozuna is part of the song, and DJ Snake has a pretty solid worldwide audience, a lot of those views won't count towards its Hot 100 streaming numbers as Billboard only takes into play U.S. YouTube totals. Pertaining to the song itself, Selena has been on fire for me of late, so I was excited when I saw it for that reason. But since this is more of a group thing, I don't blame Selena at all for this not being that great of a song. Don't get me wrong, DJ Snake has a great beat and since most of the song is Spanish, I can play the "I don't understand the lyrics" card here. But then Cardi comes in singing in English and her verse is trash while Selena's isn't a whole lot better, so I had to make myself accountable and look up the lyrics because I assumed the worst with Ozuna and I was right. This is super dirty and there's a line where Ozuna says "Your booty blows up like Nagasaki." If that's translated right, that's an awful thing to say. So I can't sleep well at night giving this a positive not. It's an awful song with a catchy beat.
28- "Shallow" - Lady Gaga & Bradley Cooper -- Welcome to the Hot 100, Bradley Cooper! The acclaimed actor has a lot of excellent accolades on his resume and now he gets to add Billboard Hot 100 artist on that. This, of course, comes from the movie "A Star is Born," which Bradley Cooper directed in addition to starring. In fact, it's his directorial debut. And it's certain to get showered with all sorts of Oscar nominations, probably taking home a few. This will be an easy candidate for best original song at said ceremony. However, I have a confession to make. I have not seen the movie. The reason being is that I want to watch the three previous versions first so that I can do my due diligence in how this movie compares. I've now seen the 1937 and the 1954 versions. Once I get around to watching the 1972 version, it's off to the theater shortly thereafter. As such, I'm avoiding this soundtrack because I want to be introduced to the songs in the movie. Yes, I've listened to this song. It's the one they use in the trailer. And it's great. Bradley Cooper and Lady Gaga play off each other well. Many props to Bradley Cooper for doing a solid effort himself when musician is not his career path. But I don't want to fully judge this song until I know the exact context of how the movie uses it. So get back to me in future weeks on this Billboard Analysis to see my full thoughts on the song. I sincerely apologize for that.
36- "Famous" - Lil Wayne featuring Reginae Carter -- I don't know much about Lil Wayne's personal life. I knew his name is Dwayne Carter. That's about it. So Reginae Carter must be a family member. And yeah, it is. It's his daughter. I had no idea he had a daughter. And she's... 19 years old? Wait a minute, how old is Lil Wayne? Oh, he's 36. I guess that makes sense since he's been around for a while. Anyways, Reginae is used as the pop chorus for this song and I think it's kinda cool that he collaborated with her. She's not given much to work with. Just a simple chorus that's repeated and not much in terms of lyrical content. But she has a nice voice. The song itself is not that interesting. Just Lil Wayne talking about being and all that entails. It has more depth than your typical rapper bragging about being famous, and the second verse here is pretty good. But overall not super interesting.
39- "Dope N-----" - Lil Wayne featuring Snoop Dogg -- I was initially intrigued about a Lil Wayne and Snoop Dogg collaboration. Until I thought that it was probably going to be nothing more than both of them rapping about smoking weed, then I became less excited. Although the final result is fine because both of them are competent rappers. I was surprised that this isn't a weed-smoking song, although it's referenced several times by both. However, I was more surprised at the fact that Snoop Dogg is barely in this song. He gets a quick chorus that is repeated twice and that was it. If you're going to bring Snoop Dogg in, at least give him a full verse to work with. I mean, Lil Wayne gave his daughter more time in their song than he gave Snoop Dogg in this song. The song is another song about Lil Wayne being famous and influential while being grateful he's not broke. I'm getting tired of this theme.
47- "Open Letter" - Lil Wayne -- What I gather from this song is that Lil Wayne woke up one day and the thought crossed his mind about what if he got shot and killed? So he wrote a goodbye letter to life. And I like how personal he gets as he contemplates what his purpose of life is and concludes at some point that he mainly wants to be a good father. And I appreciate that. In fact, on this album, "Open Letter" comes right before his collaboration with his daughter, so that's a good segway. But I'm not often a fan of the one giant verse structure, which is what this song. It gets to the point where I feels like he's just rambling as he dumps a whole bunch of thoughts about life into one giant verse instead of having a more interesting structure. And that does lead to him getting lost a bit in the song. But I do appreciate the emotion and genuine nature of this song.
56- "If I'm Lyin, I'm Flyin" - Kodak Black -- So the reason why we haven't seen much of Kodak Black this year is because he spent from January through August in prison. Police raided his home in January, arresting him for possession of marijuana, child neglect and possession of a firearm by a convicted felon after an Instagram video showed him with marijuana around his child. The latter two charges got dropped and he was able to get out early after he was initially supposed to spend a year in prison. But he's not off the hook yet as he's still waiting trial for sexual assault charges from October 2017. While he was gone, I certainly didn't miss him. He wasn't a talented rapper at all. This song here is his "I just got released from prison" song where he says prison changed him as God visited him and told him that he's gifted. Then he also goes on and talks about running out of money, loyalty, drugs and all that. For Kodak Black standards, this is certainly not the worst he's done. It's semi-tolerable. I just don't buy any of it. It seems superficial. If seven months in prison truly changed him, then let's see him prove it with his actions going forward rather than simply writing a quick obligatory song.
57- "Problems" - Lil Wayne -- One of the least interesting songs on this album so far. Lil Wayne spends a lot of time mumbling on this song as this sounds like a recording session where he was more bored with less interesting things to say, so he just talked about being rich and famous again. He also talks about the "problems" with being too rich, which in this case is more rubbing it in people's faces who aren't as rich as he is and that's dumb. This song also has a lot less structure to it, so not only does it sound like him lazily rambling on, it sounds quite messy, too.
59- "Hittas" - Lil Wayne -- Unlike "Problems," "Hittas" is a song that has more of a structure to it and less mumbling. It sounds like he tried to to create an actual song here. But what he didn't do was create lyrics that make any sense. I think the main idea is him doing more bragging about riches, but he goes in so many different directions that I don't even know what this song is about.
62- "Open Safe" - Lil Wayne -- I'm beginning to think that the deeper we get into this album, the less interesting content that there's going to be, which is certainly proving to be the case with these last few songs. Rappers really need to figure out that a 10-12 track album is often much more effective than a 20+ track album. Because with the latter, you often have so many tracks like this that are completely pointless and will probably never be listened to again by anyone and probably never performed at all by Lil Wayne. The beat in this song is interesting, but the song feels really long because Lil Wayne just has no good flow or emotion here and he has nothing interesting to say outside the usual cliche rap stuff with money, fame, girls, etc. that rappers automatically turn to when they have nothing else to rap about.
65- "Took His Time" - Lil Wayne -- The chorus in this song has a nice idea in it. Lil Wayne is referencing his mother again, as the album opens with a recording from his mother about how much she loves him. In "Took His Time," Lil Wayne states that "Momma said that God took his time when He made me." Now if only he were able to craft a song around that idea, perhaps focusing on his mother or something like that. But then he gets to the verses and drones on in mostly monotone about a whole slew of random things that have little or nothing to do with the songs itself. So I guess this wasn't one of Lil Wayne's best or most productive days in the studio when he conjured up this one.
74- "Mess" - Lil Wayne -- Unfortunately this word is a great word to describe the second half of this album this far. A mess. However, this song is a slight improvement over the last four songs from Lil Wayne. There's several times where he turns things up a notch in terms of the speed of his rap, which is pretty impressive, showing that he does have talent. But ultimately this mostly represents a bad day in the office for Lil Wayne as he laments about how his life is a mess and nothing seems to be going right. Which doesn't seem like an accurate portrayal of his life, but maybe it was a great portrayal of that specific day when he wrote this song. I don't know if all of his complaints feel super genuine and I kinda got bored of listening to him ramble on about how miserable his life is. Some of the things he complains about also make him sound a bit arrogant rather than me feeling bad that life isn't going well for him.
75- "Let It All Work Out" - Lil Wayne -- I'm not sure what to do with this song. The beat and the flow are alright, but each of the three verses are drastically different. The first verse is more boring bragging from Lil Wayne. For some reason he keeps thinking that the world is out to get him and he has so many haters that he needs to keep addressing them in each song to establish his dominance. In reality, I don't think he has that many haters. In the rap world I feel like he's one of the more well liked and well respected rappers, so all this nonsense of him attacking his haters feels empty unless he spends his days looking up mean tweets on Twitter. The second verse just kinda exists. Nothing awful. Nothing special. Then out of no where on the third verse he talks about the time he tried committing suicide when he was 12, but failed. And that was really good. But I would've rather had him put that in the forefront of the song and construct the lyrics around that instead of burying it towards the end of a five minute song. Although after he talks about his attempted suicide, he says that God came to him and made him a prophet. I rolled my eyes at that.
76- "Start This S--- off Right" - Lil Wayne featuring Ashanti & Mack Maine -- For some reason I feel like this should be the opening track of this album. Because, you know, the title. I feel this song was written to be a single from the album as I could see this being a popular club banger if it was promoted. Although maybe I shouldn't give Lil Wayne and his team any ideas because this is a garbage song to me. An empty club banger full of Lil Wayne talking about drugs and fame while bragging about his lavish lifestyle. Mack Maine starts us off with a swear-fest if listening to random people curse a lot gives you a rise while Ashanti is essentially used as nothing more than a backup singer with a quick chorus or two as a nice courtesy. So yeah, everything about this song is trash.
78- "Used 2" - Lil Wayne -- This album is so long that not even Lil Wayne fans will remember half of these songs. This is one that comes in right towards the end of the album and it seems like it's only there as an afterthought. A song Lil Wayne randomly recorded one day, but didn't put much effort into it, yet for some reason decided to throw it in for the heck of it to fill space. He kinda talks about things he used to do in the past and how he's evolved, but that's mostly on the chorus. On the verses I feel he just got distracted and wandered on through various subjects in a rather lazy way. I don't know why this is here. It'll be completely forgotten in a week or two.
81- "Demon" - Lil Wayne -- Rappers rapping about their demons always has a lot of potential because it requires them to dive deep into their soul and make themselves a little vulnerable. However, I was really disappointed to discover that Lil Wayne doesn't really talk about his demons on this song. There's one generic verse that's not really about anything and that verse is repeated twice. The rest of the song is filled with Lil Wayne repeating over and over that he's got demons on demand, but never really elaborates. It's as if someone told him to rap about his demons, so he tried, but came up completely blank as he had no idea what to say. So this song feels especially empty.
86- "Perfect Strangers" - Lil Wayne -- Unlike most of our recent songs, this is a song where it feels like Lil Wayne actually tried to make a decent song instead of lazily pumping out something dumb and generic. The song is constructed decently and the flow is nice. But the content mostly makes me roll my eyes. Lil Wayne is sad about his girl being gone, which is totally fine. But most of the rest of the song he's talking about all these other girls he's always with, not ever really knowing who they are as they're essentially just a string of one-night stands or something like that. It presents a side of the rapping industry that I find a bit disgraceful as a part of their lavish lifestyle. So I found myself having a hard time caring about the song as a whole.
90- "Dope New Gospel" - Lil Wayne featuring Nivea -- It's the final Lil Wayne song. We made it! And if you read all of this, then thank you very much. I really appreciate it. If you didn't, that's alright, too. It's a whole lot to cover and to read. I wish these rappers would learn to cut their albums in half by making 10-12 track albums instead of 20+ track albums. It might force them to be concise and focused, including only their best efforts as opposed to filling the album with a bunch of random filler just so that they can pad their sales and streaming numbers. But am I really surprised that money is the sole focus here with a lot of them since that's all they ever talk about? And I'm sorry. Lil Wayne has his moments on this album, but there's just way too much album and most of it is forgettable filler like this final song. It's just Lil Wayne padding his ego again by telling himself how awesome he is while making a whole bunch of Michael Jackson references, which always gets on my nerves. "I'm bad like Michael" is a phrase that we should just retire and never use again in any song or any genre. But yet Lil Wayne goes there, also calling himself the best rapper in the world. Yeah, I'll take a pass on this song. I'm also taking a pass on the album as a whole. Sorry if that hurts your feelings.
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