Lil Wayne's "Tha Carter V" is almost surgically all-inclusive. There are nods to every region of American rap music and nearly every era of Wayne. @craig_sj on why this is Lil Wayne's best album in decades, at the link in our bio.
Lil Wayne released his long-awaited ‘Tha Carter V’ last night. For the past six years, he’s had to fight his label and lawyers over control of his career, while his past receded and newcomers arrived en masse. Click the link in our bio to read how the album and the release of Kanye West’s ‘Yandhi’ mark the end of an era. Photograph by Erika Goldring