No matter if Lil Wayne's really is the greatest rapper alive, he sure knows his game. The name Lil Wayne stir things up whether it concerns a feature on a track or headline over at TMZ. Hands down, Dwayne Carter is a smart businessman. No matter if he do things wrong with gun and drug charges he always manage to end up on the right side.
Last year Lil Wayne stepped down as the president of Young Money Ent. the record label he once founded, the imprint of Cash Money Records and distributed by Universal Records. This year Mack Maine serves as the president and Weezy kept himself busy making babies, building his empire and with signing the stars of tomorrow like Drake & Nicki Minaj.
"We Are Young Money" is the debut album from the label and is a collaborative album between the full line up of all artists signed with the label: Lil Wayne, Nicki Minaj, Drake, Mack Maine, Gudda Gudda, Shanell, Tyga, Jae Millz, Lil Chuckee, Lil Twist, Short Dawg & T-Streets. Sounds like way too many chefs in yhe kitchen but the album is actually not a hot mess at all.
Of course, Drake, Nicki Minaj & Lil Wayne are the brightest shining stars but they're not overpowering the way I though they would, which is kind of nice, all artists manages to get their own spot and find their own place in the big whole.
And with that big line up Young Money really doesn't need features, but they got them anyway as Lloyd, Birdman and Gucci Mane features on the album. 'Lloyd' takes over the former Toung Money affiliate Omarion's role on the second single 'Bedrock' and sounds better than Omarion ever did, Birdman features on the Andrew "Papa Justifi" Wansel & Warren "Oak" Felder produced 'Fuck da Bullshit' with Nicki Minaj, Gudda Gudda, Lil Wayne & Drake (you might recognise Nicki's verse from the first part of the demo she did for Rihanna's 'Mad House') and Gucci Mane teams up on the Kane Beatz produced 'Steady Mobbin' with Lil Wayne.
To be perfectly honest, there's not a single track I dislike out of all 15. Don't know when that happened the last time listening to an album. Sure, all of them 15 isn't super hot single material, but they don't have to be either. One great side about "We Are Young Money" are the productions. David Banner manages to pick himself up on 'Streets Is Watchin', Kane Beatz does an amazing job on most tracks, Tha Bizness shines on 'Mrs. Parker' but the best productions comes from Chase N. Cashe, no question about it. 'New Shit' is superb in it's complex simplicity and so is 'Pass the Dutch'.
'Roger That' makes me long for Nicki Minaj's upcoming album more than ever, girl actually got flows tighter than a dick in a butt.
Lil Wayne has not only created a label, signed artists that will dominate the rap scene years from now, no he has created an unstoppable movement and the thing is, I don't you have to be a fan of Lil Wayne to enjoy this album, as it's offering plenty for all.
Buy album over at Amazon or iTunes. 
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Monday, 21 December 2009
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2 comments:
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Unstoppable movement? Really? Wow this album was mediocre at best While Wayne will continue to shine,let's face it, Nicki Minaj will be forgotten by next summer which is four months longer than the rest of the crew will last. Drake will fade in the fall. The "unstoppable movement" will stop movement before 2010 is over
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