{"id":4126,"date":"2022-01-29T16:16:02","date_gmt":"2022-01-29T21:16:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/read.streamapse.com\/?p=4126"},"modified":"2025-05-17T17:54:45","modified_gmt":"2025-05-17T22:54:45","slug":"lil-wayne-weezys-2011-carnival-of-freestyles-is-here-at-last","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/streamapse.com\/Magazine\/?p=4126","title":{"rendered":"Lil Wayne &#8211; Weezy\u2019s 2011 Carnival Of Freestyles Is Here At Last"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While grinding his way to the top of rap\u2019s all-timers list, Lil Wayne has been nothing if not considerate. When his fans were awaiting his I Am Not a Human Being follow-up, 2011\u2019s Tha Carter IV, the NOLA-born superstar delivered Sorry 4 the Wait, a 13-song holdover mixtape made up of unrelenting non sequiturs over beats taken from other artists\u2019 well-known songs. Of course, the tape\u2014which is now available to stream some 10 years after its initial release\u2014is the furthest thing from an album, but that was kind of the point.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_4127\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4127\" style=\"width: 700px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/streamapse.com\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4127\" src=\"http:\/\/streamapse.com\/Magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Sorry-4-The-Wait.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"700\" srcset=\"http:\/\/streamapse.com\/Magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Sorry-4-The-Wait.jpg 700w, http:\/\/streamapse.com\/Magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Sorry-4-The-Wait-300x300.jpg 300w, http:\/\/streamapse.com\/Magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Sorry-4-The-Wait-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4127\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em><a href=\"http:\/\/streamapse.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Stream Sorry 4 The Wait<\/strong><\/a><\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>There\u2019s not much structure to these songs\u2014unless you count whatever you might have remembered from original tracks like Gunplay\u2019s \u201cRollin\u2019\u201d (here, \u201cTunechi Rollin\u2019\u201d), Drake\u2019s \u201cMarvins Room\u201d (\u201cTunechi\u2019s Room\u201d), or Kreayshawn\u2019s \u201cGucci Gucci\u201d (\u201cOne Big Room\u201d). But the tape\u2019s artistic statement was both singular and aggressive: If you were fortunate enough to have a hit song around this time, it\u2019s potentially because Wayne hadn\u2019t gotten his hands on the beat first.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While grinding his way to the top of rap\u2019s all-timers list, Lil Wayne has been nothing if not considerate. When his fans were awaiting his I Am Not a Human Being follow-up, 2011\u2019s Tha Carter IV, the NOLA-born superstar delivered Sorry 4 the Wait, a 13-song holdover mixtape made up of unrelenting non sequiturs over [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4128,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[744,745,631,746],"class_list":["post-4126","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-articles","tag-carnival","tag-freestyles","tag-wayne","tag-weezy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/streamapse.com\/Magazine\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4126","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/streamapse.com\/Magazine\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/streamapse.com\/Magazine\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/streamapse.com\/Magazine\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/streamapse.com\/Magazine\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4126"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/streamapse.com\/Magazine\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4126\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6133,"href":"http:\/\/streamapse.com\/Magazine\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4126\/revisions\/6133"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/streamapse.com\/Magazine\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4128"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/streamapse.com\/Magazine\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/streamapse.com\/Magazine\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/streamapse.com\/Magazine\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}