"MFN Right" and "Not Invited" also standout as the sonic outliers here, one minimalist, the other soulful. It’s also odd that one of that EP’s standouts, "Back on My Bullshyt," which features of the better Lil Wayne verses in recent memory, didn’t make it to ColleGrove. Six tracks are 2 Chainz-only, including two highlights-"MFN Right" and "Not Invited"-which originally appeared on his recent EP, Felt Like Cappin, where they benefitted from the shorter running time without Wayne verses, they feel out of place here. For every "I’m so high the blunt feel like a dumbbell/ These niggas tiny like a spider on a Spud Webb," Wayne provides, 2 Chainz delivers five delirious winners like "I had a sitdown with Farrakhan/ Turned the White House to the Terrordome." This unbalance becomes an issue on songs like "Rolls Royce Weather Every Day" and "Bentley Truck," where Wayne sputters so much that you wish this was just a 2 Chainz album. At this point, he simply has trouble matching 2 Chainz’s outlandishness bar-for-bar.
There are glimpses of that here, but more often than not Wayne is merely trying to keep pace. But Wayne is now a shell of the rapper 2 Chainz revered, and here, standing beside Atlanta’s zinger king, he struggles to get an interesting word in edgewise.Īt his peak, Lil Wayne was an efficient and effective puncher, taking compact swings and landing in flurries. (The record is billed as a 2 Chainz album likely because of Wayne’s unresolved disputes with Cash Money, making this the ultimate outpouring of gratitude.) And in a way, ColleGrove is itself a dedication, to both Lil Wayne and the era of freaky one-liners he ushered in.
"Dedication" is a "Big Brother"-style narration of the duo’s longstanding friendship, with 2 Chainz paying homage to Wayne’s impact on his career. The intention of ColleGrove is, as the hometown-referencing name suggests, to merge the rappers’ two worlds, and to also display 2 Chainz’s enviable respect for Wayne. 2 Chainz made a name for himself not only by listening to Wayne but also following his lead, so it’s a bit odd that ColleGrove has him spending so much time dragging Wayne behind him. It’s also the first song that comes to mind when 2 Chainz raps, "You said, ‘You can make a million rappin’ ‘bout some pussy,’" on "Dedication," the opener to their new project, ColleGrove, recounting some wizened Wayne advice. On Juicy J's strip club ode "Bandz a Make Her Dance," for instance, 2 Chainz and Wayne deliver sometimes-head-scratching non sequiturs about their favorite pastime, and it’s representative of their combined cheekiness. Stop trippin' pimp.2 Chainz and Lil Wayne have been running mates for almost a decade now following their collaborative 2007 hit "Duffle Bag Boy," Wayne has appeared as a featured guest on every 2 Chainz album, and 2 Chainz has often returned the favor on mixtapes and the 2013 single "Rich as Fuck." It’s a naturally absurd pairing: At their best, both rappers’ similarly skewed perspective allows them boil down the universe into an endless supply of WTF punchlines. I've been skating and s***, falling and s*** and all that type of s***, but I'll give it to you like, next week. But I ain't gonna lie, I ain't finished that motherf***er.
" I'ma give it to ya'll in another week or so. "So therefore I ain't giving you b*****s 'Dedication 4' yet," he adds. He goes on, "That's my real, real, real good homeboy right there and I refuse to put any attention on me when the spotlight, everybody's eyes, everybody's attention and everybody's focus should be on my n***a 2 Chainz's album 'Based On A T.R.U. "I know I was supposed to drop that Dedication 4 tonight - but listen, my homeboy 2 Chainz just dropped his album yesterday," the Cash Money artist says in a video, which is released via Bread Over Bed, following his show in New York along with Nicki Minaj. Story" on August 14, shortly before Wayne's mixtape was supposed to be unleashed. The New Orleans rhymer has decided to delay the release of his new mixtape to respect 2 Chainz who released his new album " Based on a T.R.U. AceShowbiz - Fans of Lil Wayne who have been waiting for the rapper's latest mixtape " Dedication 4" must now wait a little longer before the record finally comes out.
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