Anna Baynham
Blue & White Flash / Staff Writer
At long last, it’s finally here! Lil Wayne has finally given us what we all have been waiting for. After countless push backs and delays DJ Drama and Weezy are back at it for the fourth time with Dedication 4. Not wanting to steal he shine of rapper 2Chainz, Wayne delayed the release of Dedication 4 until Labor Day and that he did.
The Dedication 4 debuted with 15 of the summer’s hottest tracks. Including features like J.Cole, Young Jeezy, and Jae Millz just to name a few.
Weezy opens up with “So Dedicated” that takes over Rick Ross’ “So Sophisticated”, in which he relentlessly lays graphical sexual bars over, and soon after he recklessly kills 2Chainz, Mercy. Not saying that those are the only two songs on the mixtape to say the least. The whole mixtape was great. From beginning to end you re guaranteed to bob your head.
The final track of the mixtape has a southern soulful trumpet instrumental. He explains bringing up all those from his hometown to get New Orleans back to where it use to be before all of the natural disasters. Letting them know that it can only get better from here.
Dedrick Burnett, a graduate Sports Administration major, from Mobil, Ala. said, “The mixtape gets better every time I listen to it. You really have to listen to what he is saying. No one is saying lyrics like him.”
In doing an interview with Mixtape Daily, Weezy stated that choosing the instrumentals for D4 was actually difficult for him.
“Usually I kill all the hot songs that’s out. But I’m on the hot songs that are out so I have nothing to kill,“ said Wayne in the interview.
Call it arrogance but this is very true a lot of the songs that are out that are hot Lil Wayne does in fact have a feature on.
Some did not feel as enthused about the release. Demetri O’Brien a sophomore. Meteorlogy Major, from Atlanta, Ga. said, “The mixtape has recycled beats and commercial rhymes that give us what we expected. It was a terrible mixtape to tide us over until a full album release.”
As you can see, I am not let down by the mixtape at all. Lil Wayne has come along way since he first graced the world with his talents and consistently tops charts. Listening to each songs lyrical dialect and detail, Weezy reminds us why he is one of the best rappers alive.
Whether you like him or not, Lil Wayne is still in his prime. He will continuously make the hottest tracks with the wittiest lyrics and seal the deal with a great delivery. Now all of his fans will be waiting on either his next album or mixtape. Which I’m sure will be even better.
