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Tuesday, November 18, 2008

Eat You Alive- Lil Wayne




Yes Lil Wayne is coming with yet another mixtape to bring the world a whole new onslaught of music, and honestly ask yourself did you expect anything different. Mr. F Baby basically made his entire career out of the work formula of having long waits between albums with that time being spent making mixtape after mixtape after mixtape etc. Keep in mind that I am not talking about the slew of unofficial mixtapes released by DJs trying to get their name out by taking already released songs that have been featured on the actual official tapes. No I am talking mostly about the Dedication series and The Drought is Over series, and even though I never really listened to the later of the two series due to not knowing if it was official and exclusive tracks and basically already having the songs on my itunes, but knowing that there is a part six about to come out, and the majority of Wayne fans only know him from The Carter series, this is a feat in itself.

If you compared the work ethic of Wayne and that of other artists that started their career around the same time Mr. Carter first started, and also the work ethic of up and comers of today's time(ex. Curren$y's mixtape a month or XV's 80 tracks in 40 days), you can see where Wayne was ahead of the time and also quick to adapt to the availability and life expectancy of songs(not many tracks become classics now a days). And if you think Dedication was one of Wayne's first mixtapes, then you are highly mistaken, but I don't blame you.

Before the Carter series or even the dreads(yes back when the Cash Money artist still had braids), Wayne started pushing mixtapes with his young group,  Sqad Up(yeah it's spelled like that), and started driving the streets of New Orleans crazy with these hits. I was too young to really know when each of them dropped, but there was at least 6 of the local classic. I say local classic because wikipedia doesn't even have it on his discography.

Now after writing all of this and actually thinking about it, Lil Wayne may not be the best rapper alive, but you can't count Wayne out when someone has the work ethic to not only release this amount of material, but to record the multitude of material.

Ok. now for the new mixtape. I don't feel like posting the youtube, but I do have the link to the new song. Just click the picture.

All written from math class. Damn I love college.

After listening to the actual track, Eat You Alive, I realize I don't really enjoy it, but I'll leave it up for anybody who wants it.

But for anyone who wants to listen to a new song from Wayne that is reminiscent of a younger, more gangster Weezy. Check out Street Life.

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