The irrepressibly silly Mannie Fresh produced every song on every album, and his style - ratatat drum-machine snares, urgent sonar bleeps, second-line horn blats - gave them a sonic identity. Everyone rapped on everyone else’s records and showed up in everyone else’s videos. In those early days, Cash Money presented itself as a unified front. A year later, Birdman signed Cash Money to a massive distribution deal with Universal, and all those Cash Money rappers went national. In 1997, Cash Money put Wayne and BG together with Juvenile and Turk, turning them into the Cash Money supergroup known as the Hot Boys.
BG’z put out their first album, 1994’s True Story, when Wayne was 11. Birdman had paired him up with BG, another young rap prospect, turning the two of them into the duo BG’z. And on Tha Block Is Hot, he made his transition to cussing-rapper status into an event: “Look, I don’t curse / But in this verse, man, fuck the world.” By the time he spoke that line, Wayne might have been the world’s youngest rap veteran.Īt eight, Wayne had freestyled a verse into the answering machine of Cash Money boss Bryan “Birdman” Williams and gotten himself signed to the label. Wayne had a loose definition of what constituted a cussword he still threw around N-words and offered to kill people. It was true: Wayne, out of respect for his mother, did not cuss on records until he made his debut album. As in: The guy who says “wobbledy wobbledy” is 16 years old? And he doesn’t cuss on records? Because his mom won’t let him? He seemed like a gimmick. Of the crew, Juvenile was the clear star - the guy with the seen-it-all eyes and the rumbling singsong drawl and the hits. One of those rappers was Juvenile, who’d just released the generational landmark 400 Degreez. (On “Tha Block Is Hot,” Wayne mentions that they “ain’t got on no suits cuz we ain’t tryna be presidents.” I’ve always understood that as a shot at No Limit.)Ĭash Money, as a crew, only had six rappers, which meant you could keep them all straight. They had their own kind of glitz, but they rejected the theatrical flair of No Limit. They had a whole aesthetic - enormous white T-shirts, bandannas, diamonds on their teeth. Cash Money, on the other hand, was small and controlled. They were loud and flashy and visually dazzling, and they seemed to release a lavishly packaged new album every week. A year or two earlier, Master P’s No Limit label, the crosstown rivals of Cash Money, had crossed over in an enormous way. Cash Money Records, Wayne’s label, had suddenly become a powerhouse. When Lil Wayne first showed up on the national scene, he was a curio.
Tha Block Is Hot does not offer too much indication that Wayne would eventually become the greatest, most popular, most influential rapper of his generation - not unless you listen hard, and with the benefit of hindsight. That album, Tha Block Is Hot, turns 20 tomorrow. And a month after he turned 17, Wayne released an album that would be Platinum within two months. He turned in probably the catchiest part of Cash Money’s breakout national single, ad-libbing “wobbledy wobbledy” over the outro of Juvenile’s “Back That Azz Up” and unwittingly coining a catchphrase. He achieved regional bounce-rap stardom, linking up with the ascendant New Orleans indie Cash Money records. He attempted suicide, shooting himself in the chest. Technische Realisation: "PHP Music Script" 10.While he was still a child, Lil Wayne watched his father leave and his stepfather die. Tha Block Is Hot | Lil' Wayne | Album | 1999 | Īls Amazon-Partner verdienen wir an qualifizierten Verkäufen. Studio-Alben: 2020: Funeral Republic 2018: Tha Carter V Republic 2013: I Am Not A Human Being II Island 2011: Tha Carter IV Universal 2010: I Am Not A Human Being Island 2010: Rebirth Universal 2008: Tha Carter III Universal 2005: Tha Carter II Universal 2004: Tha Carter Universal 2002: 500 Degreez Universal 2000: Lights Out Universal 1999: Tha Block Is Hot Universal Interpret: Lil' Wayne Album-Titel: Tha Block Is Hot Tracks: 17 Label: Universal Erstveröffentlichung: ġ.
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