{"id":406,"date":"2018-10-16T11:01:01","date_gmt":"2018-10-16T15:01:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/theogony\/2018-2019\/?p=406"},"modified":"2018-10-18T11:17:21","modified_gmt":"2018-10-18T15:17:21","slug":"tha-carter-v-was-worth-the-wait","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/theogony\/2018-2019\/tha-carter-v-was-worth-the-wait\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Tha Carter V&#8221; Was Worth the Wait"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>Holden Miller<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>After five long years, Lil Wayne\u2019s &nbsp;highly anticipated album, \u201cTha Carter V\u201d is finally here. Although the New Orleans rapper has not discussed in specifics why the album came so delayed, he said to Jimmy Fallon on The Tonight Show that the contractual disputes surrounding its release were \u201cjust business.\u201d &nbsp;Despite not putting out a studio album for a half-decade, Wayne has not been completely silent&#8211;he\u2019s released several mixtapes in the last few years. On September 28th, though, fans were given the album they so desperately wanted and waited for. The album\u2019s opening song, \u201cI Love You Dwayne\u201d begins with an emotional voicemail from Wayne\u2019s mother, who tells him how proud she is of his success and how it has guided their family The track is a heartwarming and dramatic experience which sets high expectations for the songs that follow.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> Features on the album include Travis Scott, Kendrick Lamar, Snoop Dogg, the late XXXTentacion, and several more. These features and Wayne\u2019s crisp, thoughtful lyricism give the album purpose and perspective&#8211; whether in discussing conflicts during Wayne&#8217;s adolescence, coping with the fame, or even his attempted suicide as mentioned in the closing track \u201cLet it All Work Out\u201d. However, this is a Carter album, meaning not all the songs deal with hard times;many of the songs are upbeat,entertaining, and even celebratory. This is evident in the track \u201cDope N****z\u201d where &nbsp;Wanye very confidently writes \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/genius.com\/Lil-wayne-dope-niggaz-lyrics#note-15469597\">I&#8217;m feeling like John Gotti Lennon<\/a> \/ And you gon&#8217; respect my mind and my sign and my emblem.\u201d Wayne&#8217;s comfortable in the spotlight, as he has proved time and time again, and although it took what, to his fans, seemed like forever to be released, \u201cThe Carter V\u201d was well worth the wait.<br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After five long years, Lil Wayne\u2019s  highly anticipated album, \u201cTha Carter V\u201d is finally here. Although the New Orleans rapper has not discussed in specifics why the album came so delayed, he said to Jimmy Fallon on The Tonight Show that the contractual disputes surrounding its release were \u201cjust business.\u201d  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":409,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-406","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-style"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/theogony\/2018-2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/theogony\/2018-2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/theogony\/2018-2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/theogony\/2018-2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/theogony\/2018-2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=406"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/theogony\/2018-2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":433,"href":"https:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/theogony\/2018-2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406\/revisions\/433"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/theogony\/2018-2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/409"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/theogony\/2018-2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/theogony\/2018-2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/theogony\/2018-2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}