Comments on: NPR Demystifies Lil Wayne’s Carter III Success

By: Lil Wayne: o protótipo do artista do século XXI? | Remixtures

Lil Wayne: o protótipo do artista do século XXI? | Remixtures — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 04:10:14 +0000

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By: Shelton

Shelton — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 16:14:15 +0000

Hype machine or not, wack album or not… let’s investigate the current landscape of hip-hop music: Damn near everyone I talk to complains about regional music and how it’s wack (I know cats from the South who hate everything out of NYC right now and vice versa); people bitch and moan about ringtone music and how it’s killing the game; Fans are fickle and will love you one day and hate you the next; the same subject material we heard last year is the same subject material we hear this year; beef is played out – and dudes still beef; oh, and people don’t wanna pay for music and would rather build their album collection via rapidshare.

And this dude managed to get one million people to actually pay money for C3? Respect.

By: Timza

Timza — Sat, 12 Jul 2008 10:14:11 +0000

The reason he sold all these albums, cuz he on err’body’s mind compare comments on the Skillz Cover/Samples/Leak whatever with Weezy’s…The dude made a whole lot of hype himself and got a whole lotta o people interested

By: david

david — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 23:18:04 +0000

mondea…make me

By: esbee

esbee — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 22:10:45 +0000

@Flint: LOL, you and Rizoh do agree on the Buzz issue if you read his comments thus far. He has agreed that buzz doesn’t guarantee hype. With Wayne yes, some of those mixtapes in their entirety were worth the hype but not all of them imo were top notch quality. However he had already won a lot of ppl over prior to going into this album, expectations were high as well. I also take issue with your mention of Buddens as one of those guys that dropped tons of material and never got mention. If you recall, Budden was hot before Def Jam signed him as the next “Jay-Z.” He actually got signed off the hype surrounding his mixtapes. All this in 2001/2002. By the time “Pump it up” dropped it garnered a storm, became a club staple and got airplay everywhere. Heck I was in Nashville at the time and radio and DJ’s played the heck out of his jam. When his album dropped though it became something of a disappointment so I do agree with your comment on the quality of C3 helping to boost that.

Again I’ll say Wayne benefitted from timing, chance and a good measure of hard work. I will agree with Flint that a lot of other rappers have dropped material a la G-unit with little to next to nothing hype following but Wayne did (even though some of what he dropped remains questionable, however) and got successful.

I think he’s an artist that’s getting his break ‘cos the ’stars are all lined up’ properly. The sad thing and what we should be wary of is artists now jumping the bandwagon and swarming us with too much material too quickly.