Lil Wayne- The Carter 2 -

He realized that Tha Carter II wasn't the end of a trilogy. It was the beginning of his real life. The first Carter had introduced the character. The second Carter had killed the character and resurrected the myth.

Dwayne closed his eyes. He went into the second safe. LIL WAYNE- the carter 2

Dwayne watched the corner boys scramble for scraps, hustling the same vials his mentor, Baby, had been moving since Dwayne was a braided kid with a microphoned fist. He respected the grind, but he was tired of the echo. Every rapper in the city was using the same flow, the same metaphors about bricks and Benzes. Dwayne wanted a new language. He realized that Tha Carter II wasn't the end of a trilogy

His only sanctuary was the back room of the studio on Tchoupitoulas Street—a cramped, soundproofed coffin with a cracked microphone that smelled like cheap gin and old smoke. That’s where the second safe lived. The second Carter had killed the character and

Tha Carter II dropped in December. It wasn't an album. It was a hostile takeover.