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Lil Waynes best breakup song isnt about a romantic relationship.
Wayne was still there.
Its a small step toward digitizing the wealth of rap music thats brilliant and historically important but remains offline.
This trio of LPs represent a key piece of a fascinating and enduring moment in the genres history.
Groups like UNLV established what had been conceived as a bounce-music label as a heavyweight in hip-hop.
when the two were in middle school.
Juvenile was almost a half-decade older than the other three.
Get It How U Live!
!was recorded mostly in Houston.
By contrast,Guerrilla Warfareis fuller and meaner, blunt and punishing.
Theres more from Turk, who was finally in his element in the Cash Money factory setting.
(This one was written and recorded in Miami in a single week.)
See especially Tuesday & Thursday, a perpetual motion machine full of dread.
Despite Turks raw, obvious talent, there is not a clear or canonical masterpiece from his catalogue.
If you have even a cursory familiarity with Cash Moneys history, you know none of this would last.
and Turk followed shortly thereafter.
and Turk were dogged by serious problems with hard drugs, and each spent long periods incarcerated.
Turk served 9 years of a 14-year sentence stemming from the 2004 shooting of a police officer in Memphis.
He was released in 2012.
Just months before Turks release, B.G.
received his own 14-year sentence: to a federal prison for gun possession and witness tampering.
But back toTha Carter.
Immediately after I Miss My Dawgs comes We Dont, where Wayne trades verses with Baby.
The myth, it seems, would fit.
But when he came back, everybody else was gone.
