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Though 100 minutes and 29 songs in length, the tape has maybe an ounce of filler, making room for little except the biggest beats of its era (“Crazy,” “Throw Some D’s,” “Show Me What You Got”) for Wayne to just ravage through. Which, of course, the then-24-year-old took full advantage of: Through innumerable batshit similes, sports references and disgustingly awesome cunnilingus-centric punchlines, the NOLA native made his claim of being The Best Rapper Alive sound almost valid. (**PHOTOS**: [MTV’s Wildest Night: Best Moments From the 2012 VMAs](http://entertainment.time.com/2012/09/06/mtvs-wildest-night-best-moments-from-the-2012-vmas/)) Listening to _Drought 3_ back-to-back with the new _Dedication 4_, flaws with the latter become pretty apparent. For starters, the songs here don’t feel as fully germinated as they should; Wayne’s never shown any supreme sense of song structure, but there’s no question that practically any _Drought_ song sounds miles more organized than, say, the version of “No Lie” found here. And, despite the delightfully anachronistic insertions of “SpottieOttieDopaliscious” and G. Dep’s “Special Delivery,” the beat-sampling of _4_ – also featuring [Future’](http://consequenceofsound.net/tag/future/)s “Same Damn Time,” [Rick Ross’](http://consequenceofsound.net/tag/rick-ross/)s “So Sophisticated,” G.O.O.D. Music’s “I Don’t Like” remix, among other zeitgeisty Southern-rooted bangers – isn’t varied enough to stay interesting throughout. Even so, this tape is full of some of the Wayne-iest zaniness ever committed to DatPiff, and unless you’re easily offended or insistent on the idea that rap needs to be _about_ _something_ to be worth listening to, _4_ can be a pretty great time. From “Same Damn Tune”: “Her clit look like a jellybean / I’m on that promethazine / Blow your ass to smithereens / Kush strong like Mr. Clean.” From “Burn”: “Money talks, bitch, and mine talks Robin Leech / That lean got me slow as Lisa Turtle / Ask Screech.” From “Amen”: “My ver-dick hung like a jury.” The most common criticism of Wayne right now – which is to say, post [_Tha Carter IV_](http://consequenceofsound.net/2011/08/album-review-lil-wayne-tha-carter-iv/) and [_Sorry 4_ _the Wait_ ](http://consequenceofsound.net/2011/07/album-review-lil-wayne-sorry-4-the-wait/)– is that he’s losing interest in rapping altogether, but there’s enough lyrical rabidness here to stave off such an idea, if only slightly. The _Dedication_ series, after all, is named as such because its installments are supposed to show how firmly committed (er, _dedicated_) Tunechi is to his craft. (**MORE**: [Meet Lecrae, the Christian Rapper Tearing Up the Charts](http://entertainment.time.com/2012/09/06/everything-you-need-to-know-about-lecrae-the-christian-rapper-who-is-1-on-itunes)) As with any other Wayne project, there are questionable moments here. On closer “A Dedication,” Wayne talks about how he “built a skatepark to get them kids off the streets,” but just a few tracks earlier he allows _13-year-old_ Chicago rapper Lil Mouse to glorify a “.30 clip of them hollow tips.” Not a good look. Then, on the J. Cole-featuring “Green Ranger,” Wayne says he “\[doesn’t\] even like this beat,” which, why the hell would you put a beat that you don’t like on your mixtape? And, of course, we get a few lines here and there that just don’t even make sense even with a Weezy filter: “My homie T roll up my blunt / Skinnier than Rex Ryan.” Um, Weezy, even after the [lap band surgery](http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/07/20/lap-band-surgery-rex-ryan%5Fn%5F1689144.html), dude still isn’t that trim! Still, a Wayne mixtape can only be so bad, and _Dedication 4_ isn’t exactly an all-time nadir. For all its flaws, this tape still stands as evidence that Dwayne Carter isn’t falling off as much as you might be hearing about. **Essential Tracks:** “Same Damn Tune”, “Burn” **More from Consequence of Sound:** [AC/DC announces first live album in 20 years:_Live At River Plate_](http://consequenceofsound.net/2012/09/acdc-announces-first-live-album-in-20-years-live-at-river-plate/) **More from Consequence of Sound:** [Ghostface Killah announces new solo album:_Twelve Reasons To Die_](http://consequenceofsound.net/2012/09/ghostface-killah-announces-new-solo-album-twelve-reasons-to-die/) Dedication 4 by Lil Wayne ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/archive/7121286/lil-wayne-is-rabid-raw-on-dedication-4/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/archive/7121286/lil-wayne-is-rabid-raw-on-dedication-4/"},"headline":"Lil Wayne Is Rabid, Raw on 'Dedication 4'","datePublished":"2012-09-14T14:00:05.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-22T05:58:06.482Z","description":"This post is in partnership with Consequence of Sound, an online music publication devoted to the ever growing and always thriving worldwide music scene. 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