Tha Carter II

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People who met Wayne on "Go DJ" and thought him a lunchroom hack emcee – who knows what's happened since then, but damn has he learned how to write. His squeak is now a croak, his laugh a little more burly, his flow remarkably flexible. Sometimes he's deliberate like syrup cats ("But this is Southern, face it/ If we too simple then yall don't get the basics") but when he needs to be, he's nimble as that Other Carter: "I ain't talking too fast you just listening too slow." Remy and weed, fast things and women, the corner – these are Wayne's wax since B.G.'ing with B.G., putting piff on the campus before he ever enrolled in college. [10]

IGN writer Jim During gave the album an eight out of ten and commented that Wayne "[punishes] the mic with hard-hitting verbal tenacity", and wrote that the album shows him "at his most focused, and is a strong next step for a relatively young career." [16] Matt Cibula of PopMatters wrote ambivalently towards that album's production, writing that "the producers here are mostly no-namers who do their jobs well but not spectacularly", but praised Wayne's "amazing" words and remarked that "Straws really IS the best rapper alive, at least when he tries". [11]

In 2020, Rolling Stone ranked it number 370 on the 500 Greatest Albums of All Time . [17]

LA Weekly included the track "Best Rapper Alive" in their list of "Ten Rap-Rock Songs That Are Actually Awesome". [18]

Commercial performance

Tha Carter II debuted at number two on the US Billboard 200 chart, selling 240,000 copies in its first week. [3] This became Wayne's fourth US top-ten debut. [3] The album also debuted at number one on the US Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart, becoming Wayne's third number-one album on this chart. [3] As of March 2008, the album has sold 1.3 million copies in the US. [19] On September 25, 2020, the album was certified double platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) for combined sales and album-equivalent units of over two million units in the United States. [4]

Track listing

Tha Carter II
Tha Carter 2.jpg
Studio album by
ReleasedDecember 6, 2005 (2005-12-06)
Recorded2005
Genre
Length77:22
Label
Producer
Lil Wayne chronology
The Dedication
(2005)
Tha Carter II
(2005)
Dedication 2
(2006)
Tha Carter albums chronology
Tha Carter
(2004)
Tha Carter II
(2005)
Tha Carter III
(2008)
No.TitleWriter(s)Producer(s)Length
1."Tha Mobb" The Heatmakerz 5:20
2."Fly In"
  • T-Mix
  • Batman
2:23
3."Money on My Mind"4:31
4."Fireman"
4:23
5."Mo Fire"
  • Carter, Jr.
  • Ronald "Young Yonny" Ferebee, Jr.
Young Yonny3:23
6."On tha Block #1"  0:38
7."Best Rapper Alive" Bigg D 4:53
8."Lock and Load" (featuring Kurupt)
  • T-Mix
  • Batman
4:46
9."Oh No"
  • Carter, Jr.
  • Ferebee, Jr.
  • W. Matlock
  • Young Yonny
  • Matlock
3:11
10."Grown Man" (featuring Curren$y)
  • T-Mix
  • Batman
4:06
11."On tha Block #2"  0:26
12."Hit Em Up"
  • Carter, Jr.
  • Zayas
  • DelGiorno
  • DVLP
  • Filthy
4:07
13."Carter II"
  • Carter, Jr.
  • Jones
  • Williams
  • T-Mix
  • Batman
2:24
14."Hustler Musik"
  • Carter, Jr.
  • Jones
  • Williams
  • T-Mix
  • Batman
5:03
15."Receipt"
The Heatmakerz3:48
16."Shooter" (featuring Robin Thicke)
  • Carter, Jr.
  • Robin Thicke
  • Robert Daniels
  • James Gass
  • Robert Keyes
Robin Thicke4:35
17."Weezy Baby" (featuring Nikki Kynard)
Deezle 4:18
18."On tha Block #3"  0:13
19."I'm a D-Boy" (featuring Birdman)
  • T-Mix
  • Batman
4:00
20."Feel Me"
  • Carter, Jr.
  • Zayas
  • DelGiorno
  • DVLP
  • Filthy
3:48
21."Get Over" (featuring Nikki Kynard)
Cool & Dre 4:42
22."Fly Out"
  • Carter, Jr.
  • Jones
  • Williams
  • T-Mix
  • Batman
2:25
Total length:77:22
Sample credits

Personnel

Credits for Tha Carter II adapted from Allmusic. [20]

Charts

Certifications

RegionCertification Certified units/sales
United States (RIAA) [4] 2× Platinum2,000,000

Sales+streaming figures based on certification alone.

References

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