Tha Carter IV Review

The decline is not dramatic, which somehow makes it worse. He came out of a year inside and made an album that does everything the last one did with none of the invention, mid tempo beats built to sound expensive on radio and verses that are strings of unrelated puns delivered in the same shape every time. 6 Foot 7 Foot is the exception, a genuinely strange Bangladesh beat that he attacks with something like the old appetite.

How to Love is a real song and an awkward one. She Will and John are perfectly serviceable and nothing more. Outro is the notorious moment, a posse cut where Nas and Busta Rhymes and Shyne outclass everything the billed artist has done in fifty minutes, and he does not appear on it. The talent is intact and the reason to use it has gone. This is where the catalogue starts running downhill.