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Lil Wayne’s highly anticipated album Tha Carter III arrives in stores Tuesday. Find out if it lived up to the hype…

Entertainment Weekly: The meandering TC3 is like 16 songs from 16 different albums, barely more composed than one of Wayne’s mixtapes. It’s the sound of a great artist not trying his best, or questioning whether effort is even a worthwhile metric. B-

Rolling Stone: OK, it’s true: [Lil Wayne] really is the best rapper alive. Tha Carter III establishes beyond a doubt that the zeitgeist in 2008 belongs to one artist: a dreadlocked dadaist poet from New Orleans with a bad weed habit and a voice like a bullfrog. 4 1/2 out of 5

The Boston Globe: [Tha Carter III is] not an instant classic, but it is the best rap album since Kanye West dropped Graduation last year.

Los Angeles Times: Ultimately, Tha Carter III will have you believing in Wayne’s greatness but wondering why, as often as not, he just isn’t very good. 3 out of 4

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14 Comments

Catie
June 9th, 2008 at 1:21 pm
Ouch! I\’ll probably still get the album, i don\’t know yet though.
stupidgirl
June 9th, 2008 at 4:07 pm
The Boston Globe is a bunch of idiots
Real Man
June 9th, 2008 at 4:29 pm
Please…fuck all these newspapers, there opinion means absolutely nothing. this is white people trying to tell us what the fuck is “cool?”…not even, we the peeple determine that..not no phukin newspaper who know nothin about him in the first place
3 Star Stunna
June 9th, 2008 at 5:48 pm
Yeah Fuck what the news paper says, Weezy is the Shit… Dont believe? Watch and see how much this Nigga to goin to sell. Yeah Yall Niggaz need to get this Shit, I am a p2p person, but Fuck that I have to buy this album…
Seth Elledge
June 10th, 2008 at 5:28 am
Yeah fuck what they say this album is the shit believe that. Ive been listening to Wayne since i was kid he gives me motivation. Shit hes got the midus touch ya dig. I even had to whip this dudes ass cause he said Weezy aint shit. Its alright though everbody is going to cop that shit.
exclusive
June 10th, 2008 at 7:36 am
man i got the first copy of this album not including leaked bullshit off a truck i paid for monday it is a great album be happy. pay respect buy the fuckng cd you hating bitches .learn good music common lupe kanye nas jayz andre 3k clipse and so on grow up dont destroy music the album is great the songs are in wierd order due to the bonus songs .mr carter is a excellent song from start to finish best song on album.please dont shoot me down is also a good song there are many other hits that will appeal to those who want to blast it those who care for production and those who love the good sound of music. 4 in a half out of five. lchaim
al nen
June 10th, 2008 at 12:20 pm
the album no doubt lives up to the hype weezy has been generating to us since Tha Carter II dropped back in 05. You can\\\’t trust critics on anything, but it does have nothin to do with them being white man, leave the racial bullshit out of it!
Dwayne
June 10th, 2008 at 1:45 pm
Even the ones who hate Weezy and say his music sucks, are still going to buy this album. he is the best rapper alive, who gives a fuck about Jay-z. This album is going to blow out he first day in stores. and he is going to top the records on album sails
Chris
June 10th, 2008 at 4:28 pm
Hey fuck all these other newspapers. Rolling Stone it’s a classic, So that’s all i need to hear. Ya digg.
LIL GIO
June 10th, 2008 at 6:19 pm
these white people always sayin shit bout black folks why are they always sayin shit bout us when they dont know nuffin
Danny
June 12th, 2008 at 10:13 am
Fuck The Newspapers weezy is the best rapper alive he is to good for people not to buy his album his lyrics is to abressive nobody is better than him right now
Erik
June 12th, 2008 at 6:30 pm
The papers don\’t know shit. They are a bunch of country western listeners. Wayne is the best rapper alive and Tha Carter III is the shit. Fuck the newspapers.
estevan
June 12th, 2008 at 11:46 pm
i got summer hatin\’ on me cuz im hotter than tha sun, got spring hatin\’ on me cuz i ain\’t never sprung,winter hatin\’ on me cuz im colder than ya\’ll,and i would never i would never i would never fall!!….. you can\’t fuck wit lil wayne!!4 3/4 out of 5…
DC
June 16th, 2008 at 4:53 pm
Newspaper reviews are bogus… Most of those people dont know their ass from their elbows… TC3 is hotttt, however I would have liked a ten minute track with some lyrics instead of weezys ramblin about crack cocaine and regular cocaine and niggaz in jail. I agree with what he is sayin but this is Tha Carter 3!!!!! the most anticipated hip hop album of my life to this point… I expected more fire but the album as a whole is the shit I just expected more tracks..