Label: Young Money, Republic, Universal.Label: Young Money, Cash Money, Republic.Label: Cash Money, Young Money, Universal Republic.Label: Cash Money, Young Money, Universal Motown.Studio albums List of studio albums, with selected chart positions, sales figures and certifications His album sales in the United States stand at over 15 million copies as of July 2013, and his digital track sales stand at over 37 million digital copies. Lil Wayne released another album, Funeral, on January 31, 2020.Īs of 2018, all of Wayne's albums have been certified gold or higher by the RIAA. After years of legal battles, his 12th studio album Tha Carter V was released on September 28, 2018.
In 2013, Wayne released a sequel to his 2010 album I Am Not a Human Being, titled I Am Not a Human Being II, followed by two compilation albums with his labels, Rich Gang (2013), and Young Money: Rise of an Empire (2014). The next addition to Tha Carter series, Tha Carter IV, was released on August 29, 2011. While serving an 8-month prison sentence in New York he released another album entitled I Am Not a Human Being, in September 2010. Lil Wayne founded record label Young Money Entertainment and released a collaborative album featuring rappers signed to the label, We Are Young Money, in 2009, followed by his debut rock music album Rebirth in 2010. Certified triple platinum by the RIAA, Tha Carter III won the Best Rap Album award at the 2009 Grammy Awards. In 2008, Wayne released his best-selling album so far, titled Tha Carter III. In 2006, Wayne released a collaborative album with rapper Birdman, titled Like Father, Like Son. In 2004, he released the first of his infamous Carter series, with Tha Carter. His later albums, Lights Out released in 2000, and 500 Degreez, released in 2002, attracted minor attention.
Wayne made his album debut in 1999, with Tha Block Is Hot, which was certified platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America. All Rights Reserved.American rapper Lil Wayne has released thirteen studio albums, one collaborative album, three compilation albums, five extended plays, and twenty-nine mixtapes. What do you think of Lil Wayne's latest? Does he rock?īelow, the video for a song off of "Rebirth," "On Fire."Ĭopyright ©2022 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. Lil Wayne is not just marching to a different drummer-he's got a whole new band. It's one of the biggest stylistic makeovers in recent memory by a best-selling artist. He's largely transformed his vocal approach and overhauled his beats. While other performers have merely tweaked what they already do for their rock-rap hybrids, Lil Wayne has taken a more radical step. And Lil Wayne, Eminem, and Drake were joined by Blink-182 drummer Travis Barker for their group performance. Genre-hopping has become a popular sport among musicians at last night's Grammys, R&B singer Beyonce slipped in a musical nod to rocker Alanis Morissette in her performance. On "Drop the World," fellow rap superstar Eminem stops by for a guest vocal. On other tracks, he relapses into more hip-hoppy formats "On Fire" is laced with clashing guitars (and Lil Wayne brandishes his axe in the video), but the song still has a kind of danceable beat. "Never forget the day/ she laughed and walked away," he sings, in a rhyme that wouldn't win the weakest of rap battles. On songs like "Prom Queen," on which Lil Wayne mostly sings, he seems to be working awful hard to make the rap-rock mix work, and he leaves behind his much-admired wordplay skills to focus on rocking out.
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