“Prostitute Flang” – The Drought is Over 2 (Tha Carter 3 Sessions) (2007)īy the time 2007 came around, every mainstream rapper in the game wanted to have success like T-Pain and use Auto-Tune to record their music. Lil Wayne was already the star on the original “We Takin Over” but when he decided to go back in and record some more verses for the track it officially became Wayne’s track.ĩ.
By the time 2007’s Da Drought 3 came out, Wayne was the number one rapper globally. When Jay Z retired in 2003, it was Wayne who was the one to step up and start calling himself the “best rapper alive” purely based on the strength of his mixtapes at that time. Lil Wayne made Hip-Hop a competitive sport again he decided to take other rappers’ original songs and turn them into his songs. Wayne gained the audience’s love and trust by ensuring every word that came out of his mouth was the fire. Between 20, Wayne would appear on hundreds of guest appearances and released a handful of mixtapes well received by the masses, including the classics Dedication 1, 2, Da Drought 3, and No Ceilings. After dropping his fifth album, Wayne decided to do something unheard of for an established artist to go back and grind as if he didn’t have a record deal. Lil Wayne was already a star before releasing The Carter II, which was the album that many people started to pay attention to the skilled rapper.
