Each track, beginning to end, contains its own story, explained and detailed here for your reading pleasure. For the purposes of this ranking, we stuck with the original tracklist and pretended the god-awful “Pussy Monster” (which replaced “Playing With Fire” on new pressings) doesn’t exist. While Wayne will be celebrating the 10th anniversary at Lil Weezyana Fest this August, we’re preceding that commemoration with one of our own: ranking the tracks on the Tha Carter III.
With beats ranging from classic looped drums to spacey, weird alien music to a track once intended for the Shrek 3 soundtrack, the sounds on the album are strikingly different from those that were present in mid-2000s rap, and some of the lyrics are so out there and freeform that the bulk remain unexplained on Genius to this day. While the record is perhaps a few songs too long, it represents the solidification of Lil Wayne’s status as a hip-hop legend not only due to its album sales, but also to the artistry present throughout. Selling over a million copies in the first week (the first of any album following the rise of Napster, LimeWire, and iTunes, and the last rap record-excluding streams-to do so), combined with previously unreached heights of critical acclaim for Wayne’s work, bestowed instant classic status on Tha Carter III, setting it as a benchmark for success in rap. Carter,” Tha Carter III contains songs that not just are amongst Lil Wayne’s best and still slap ridiculously hard, but also ones that created a foundation for future artists to build on. From “Lollipop” to “A Milli” to “Let The Beat Build” to “Mr. Also, Mariah Watchman is featured in this video.It’s arguably Lil Wayne’s peak, the commercial and creative burst that the 2000s music industry needed, and the blueprint for most of modern rap. Small clips of Birdman are then shown as the music video ends with Lil Wayne sitting back down with his guitar, alone in the room from the first scene. In a seductive scene, Wayne is shown lying down shirtless while the dark angel caresses his body and clips of a snake hissing at the camera interfere with the scene. Wayne is then shown performing with a rock group to the song with clips of the dark angel dancing. Wayne then starts to flirt with a lady who is shown as a dark angel with black wings and is shown sparking every time Lil Wayne touches her. The scene then cuts back and forth to Lil Wayne entering a party filled with women.
Wayne gets up to start a recorder and starts to play his guitar which causes the music to start playing in the video. A black feather then drops on the ground giving a loud thud to were the video then cuts to Lil Wayne for the first time sitting down with his guitar alone in a room filled with recording equipment. Playing With Fire (Album Version (Explicit)) song from the album Tha Carter III is released on Jan 2008. A lady is then shown sitting on the lawn holding a white rabbit that quickly changes to a black rabbit. The music video begins with a shot of a mansion that is overlooked by storm clouds, to set the mood of the music video in a darker tone. The music video was shot on Decemby Chris Robinson. The song contains allusions from Amy Holland's song " She's on Fire" and was inspired in its entirety by Scarface.
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