Tha Carter III Lil Wayne

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Universal Motown, 2008

“i am so far from the others,” Lil Wayne rapped. “I just eat them for supper.”

Carter III is the greatest rapper of the 2000s on an insane roll, from the Katrina elegy “Tie My Hands” to the classic “Dr. Carter,” in which Wayne dons scrubs to resuscitate hip-hop.