Not just prescription pharmaceuticals at that. He needs not our platitudes, doesn’t have any reason to thank for being championed by us law-fearing little people (those of us that don’t have us much money, or as much sex, haven’t given as much head, have never considered drawing deep lines in the sand sanctioning our own impenetrable greatness while half-drooling about dying without a visceraful of drugs). Because he’s unrestrained, yes, but mostly because all this shit’s free and-unlike with drugs, women, diamonds, weapons, tattoos, and drugs-for once Weezy doesn’t owe shit to anybody. If on album Lil Wayne is rabid, punchy, now pushed in marketable increments to new ideas about hip hop’s melody-that stir between anger and the tolerance that comes with money’s freedom-and about his own voice without the mire that Mannie Fresh stuck him to, then on mixtapes he’s absolute bonkers.

Tha Carter III Mixtape is supposedly a collection of cuts from Tha Carter III sessions and, as we may hope, an amalgamation of Album Weezy and Mixtape Weezy the difference between the two, while simple, is worth parsing when money’s involved.

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