More than ever, he appears to be writing off of self-created prompts, picking a keyword and riffing on it. “I won't let u down as a fan.”įor the first couple tracks, the album is, if not flames, at least hot enough to generate some excitement that listeners are in store for classic Wayne-which is to say filthy, entertaining, hugely imaginative nonsense. “I honestly gotta say that this #FWA album is my best work yet!” he tweeted. But FWA, released exclusively to Jay Z’s new streaming platform Tidal, is supposed to make people forget all that. His output lately has been widely seen as inferior to the material of the late-Bush/early-Obama years when he credibly claimed to be the Best Rapper Alive. His much-anticipated Tha Carter V album languishes on a computer somewhere, the victim of ugly fighting between Wayne and his longtime label boss and former mentor, Birdman of Cash Money Records. It’s certainly not surprising to hear a rapper thrilled with all the sex and drugs he has access to, but you can’t take for granted this particular rapper’s state of mind these days. We know this because the third song on his new release, Free Weezy Album, is called “I Feel Good.” It samples the “I feel good part” of James Brown’s “I Got You (I Feel Good),” and features Wayne sayings like, “I feel good / I'm smoking that good / I feel good / my girl got that good / yeah!”
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