Tha Carter VI (Bonus)
Lil Wayne’s new offering was slammed on Amazon for apparently containing less tracks than stated. Multiple reviews stated that it’s missing around 10 tracks. The 1.7 star rating therefore is possibly somewhat misleading and probably unfair on the artist if he has no control of what is shown on Amazon. Hardly anyone mentioned the actual quality of the tracks. We’d be interested to hear what our audience thinks of the album. Check it out here
Customers report that the album contains only 9 tracks instead of the expected 19, and one customer notes that the CD cover is different from what was expected. Moreover, several customers express concerns about the product’s authenticity, describing it as not being the real CD!
Quick Investigation Reveals Inconsistencies…
We took a look and essentially, the link for the Bonus version, mentions how to purchase and includes a link to the CD version, which is actually just the standard version, without the bonus tracks. The reviews for the CD version are coming through to all versions. Do you think this is misleading?
Actual Album Review?
Rolling Stone gave it 3 stars but this, coming from the magazine that for some mind-blowing reason, didn’t include the legendary Prince in its all-time guitarist column, should be taken for what it is.
- Lil Wayne dropped “Momma Don’t Worry” as a surprise bonus track from ‘Tha Carter VI,’ featuring Future and Lil Baby.
- The ATL Jacob-produced track follows last week’s “Banned From NO (Remix)” with Nicki Minaj and keeps the post-album momentum going.
- Lil Wayne recently performed a medley from the album at the BET Awards, including “King Carter” and “A Milli.”
Lil Wayne is one of the most important rappers of his generation. He began his career as a near novelty, a preteen delivering hardcore Southern hip-hop. Through years of maturation and prolific output, during which the delivery of his humorous and wordplay-heavy rhymes gradually changed from ringing and pugnacious to stoned and rasped, he developed into a million-unit-selling artist with a massive body of work, one so inventive and cunning that it makes his claim of being the “best rapper alive” worth considering. Wayne debuted at the age of 12, received his first platinum certification five years later as a member of the Hot Boys, and immediately thereafter became a formidable solo artist with Tha Block Is Hot (1999), his first of 12 Top Ten albums on the Billboard 200. During a period of constant output entailing not just successful full-lengths but also reputation-building mixtapes and featured appearances on pop hits like Destiny’s Child’s “Soldier” (2004), he reached mainstream superstar status with Tha Carter III (2008). A triple-platinum blockbuster, it spawned the number one pop hit “Lollipop” and the number six follow-up “A Milli,” and netted three Grammy awards, including Best Rap Album. Throughout the 2010s, despite numerous legal and creative battles, Wayne continued to be a regular presence on the upper reaches of the charts with albums such as Tha Carter IV (2011) and I Am Not a Human Being II (2013), additional smash singles as a headliner, and a continually lengthening list of collaborative hits, including the multi-platinum “Sucker for Pain” (for the Suicide Squad soundtrack in 2016) and “I’m the One” (headlined by DJ Khaled in 2017). Since the latter hit, Wayne has topped the Billboard 200 with the consecutive LPs Tha Carter V (2018) and Funeral (2020) and has continued to issue non-album singles and mixtapes like his 2021 Rich the Kid collaboration Trust Fund Babies, 2023’s Tha Fix Before Tha VI, and eventually, Tha Carter VI in 2025.
