But in 2008, the release of Tha Carter III held the attention of an industry. Wayne sings the hook to Rihanna's “Umbrella” and, at the start of “Got Money,” arguably the album’s biggest club hit, Wayne screams, “I need a Winn-Dixie grocery bag full of money right now to the V.I.P.” On any other record, these could be isolated riffs on humor or just symptoms of good times and too much Promethazine. Take, for example, this lyric: “I do this shit for my clique like Adam Sandler,” or the fact that he tries to summon Beetlejuice by saying his name three times. It would go on to influence a generation of hip-hop by showing MCs how to be stupid again. Upon release, Tha Carter III defied expectations. He wrote, “Swagger tighter than a yeast infection.” I don’t think someone trying to carry hip-hop on his back as a serious artist writes that.

Wayne wrote a relationship song where the metaphor is police brutality.

They wanted an opus and they got a rubber chicken. It’s a nasily laugh at a hip-hop industry begging Wayne to make good on the trending maturity of the first two Carter albums. Leaked in 2007, then released as an official/unofficial mixtape later that same year, then officially released in 2008, this kaleidoscope vision of Wayne’s world (party on) is one of the most creative, fun, lazy, funny, frustrating, bizarre, etc. Besides the interludes, a majority of the mixtape has Wayne using auto-tune and rapping alongside artists signed to his label, Young Money Entertainment.At 3.8 million units sold and counting, Tha Carter III has got to be the best selling comedy album of all time. The mixtape has sold over 70,000 copies in the United States, despite being available for free download. Although Dedication 3 was a major success, it failed to match that of its predecessors despite gaining some attention. Lil Wayne also told MTV, ' Tha Carter IV is nice but you need to be looking for Dedication 3'. It is the sequel to its predecessors, The Dedication and the highly successful Dedication 2, becoming the third in Lil Wayne's 'Gangsta Grillz' series. Dedication 3 is a mixtape by Lil Wayne, hosted by DJ Drama.

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