<p><b>Day 47: "Fat Albert" – Curren$y feat. Lil Wayne, <i>The </i></b><b><i>Carrollton Heist</i></b><b> , 2016</b></p><p> Another Saturday, another chance to roll up some weed and <span></span><a href="http://ift.tt/2fq88rm to Wayne and Curren$y rap over Alchemist beats</a>. I appreciate that <a href="http://ift.tt/2f4HDsV cameos</a> have become a <a href="http://ift.tt/2fq5FNs theme for the weekends</a>. This song is from this year! Did you know that Curren$y has released like five projects this year already? I mean, of course he has, but still. For the last two months he's released on the 30th of the month, and I gather he plans to continue doing so. He also has this tape, a loose sequel to Covert Coup, his other fully Alchemist-produced project. I love that for Curren$y rap is just an endless tapestry (a rap-estry, if you will) to make stuff that sounds cool and play around with different producers and find a million ways to talk about his cars (here it's a Rolls, but you have to pay attention to the lyrics). It's never about making a hot song, and it never has been. Curren$y will last forever. </p><p>Speaking of people who have been quietly making tons of music this year, there is, of course, also Wayne, who also secretly goes off for one two-minute verse on this Curren$y tape because hey, it's a great place to do so. <span>It's a great verse: He mentions his school days and losing his virginity to "Jenny that went to Beauregard" and he's full of clever wordplay—"pussies get the dildo I get the deal done"; "tryna see my mansions get expansions"; "fuck a heated argument we let the heat argue." He also acknowledges that his own joke about smoking until his eyes look Asian is offensive but then shrugs it off in a so-what, it's all just rap fun and games, which you don't hear someone do on a track every day. He uses the word "freakazoid."</span></p><p><span>He also has this little gem of an observation, which sounds a lot like it's about… Drake? "You know you never know your lover 'til she cheat on you / You know you never know your brother til he dethrone you." I wonder how Wayne feels about Drake these days. I will always maintain that Wayne has the better catalog, but it must grate a little to see Drake become such a star while you're instead stuck in a lawsuit with your old mentor and widely seen as past your prime.</span></p><p>As for those designations of Wayne as past his prime, though: If this beat weren't so laid back and Wayne weren't so chill about rapping on it, it might stand out more that he just casually does somersaults through this verse for-fucking-<i> ever</i>. Holy shit! I've said it before and I'll say it again: Wayne is rapping better than just about anyone in 2016.</p><div class="article__embed article__embed--youtube"><iframe src="//www.youtube.com/embed/CQF2iHimOPc" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe></div><p><i>Follow Kyle Kramer on <a href="http://ift.tt/2fqclv6; target="_blank">Twitter</a>.</i><br></p>
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