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Hustler Musik (produced by Tristan 'T-Mix' Jones), On the 22-song Tha Carter II (2005), containing Go DJ (Lil Wayne's signature song of that era), This is the Carter, BM Jr and Cash Money Millionaires and on the more commercial follow-ups: Lil Wayne reinvented himself as an eloquent and grandiose rapper on Tha Carter (2004), a 21-song monolith, again produced by Mannie Fresh who is the real brain behind That disposed of written lyrics and turned towards an improvised stream of consciousness. Meanwhile, Lil Wayne had started the series of 'Sqad Up' mixtapes that culminated with SQ7 (2003), containing the epic 35-minute rap 10000 Bars Posturing like the typical southern gangsta-rapper but mostly relying on the beats of Mannie Fresh. Get It How U Live (1997) and Guerrilla Warfare (1999) producedīy one of the great hip-hop magicians of the time, Mannie Fresh (Byron Thomas).ĭebuted solo with Tha Block Is Hot (1999), The master of diction and free-form rapping was New Orleans'Ī former member of the Hot Boys, a quartet that released the Lil Wayne: I Am Not a Human Being II (2013), 3/10 Lil Wayne: I Am Not a Human Being (2010), 4/10 ( Copyright © 2013 Piero Scaruffi | Terms of use) Lil Wayne: biography, discography, review, links

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