C5 also has the second-biggest streaming week ever for an album, with 433 million on-demand audio streams.Įlsewhere on the Hot 100, Maroon 5’s “Girls Like You” featuring Cardi B spends a third week at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 after selling 480,000 equivalent album units in its first week, of which 141,000 were traditional sales. Lil Wayne and Drake are the only acts to chart at least 22 songs simultaneously in the chart’s history. 10.Īdditionally, 22 of the 23 tracks from Tha Carter V charted on the Hot 100. 7 and “Let It Fly” featuring Travis Scott places at No. Lil Wayne also joins Drake as the only artists to debut four songs in the top 10 in a single week. 2, while “Don’t Cry” featuring XXXTentacion opens at No. The Kendrick Lamar-assisted “Mona Lisa” enters at No. On top of working on Tha Carter V, he continues to develop his Young Money Entertainment imprint, which is home to Tyga, Nicki Minaj, Mack Maine, Lil Twist, Jae.

Written by Andrew Noz ( story originally appeared in altered form on November 3, 2010.In addition to topping the Billboard 200 with Tha Carter V, the Young Money rapper becomes the first artist to debut two songs simultaneously in the top five on the Billboard Hot 100.

Listen to Complex's Lil Wayne playlists here: YouTube/ Spotify/ Rdio As he emerges from his much publicized Riker's Island stay, Complex jumped headfirst into Wayne's seemingly infinite discography to select The 100 Best Lil Wayne Songs. At his best, Weezy is all of these things at once, a jack of all trades and a master of most. 1 Stunna Juvenile, Big Tymers and Lil Wayne: 100 Million Birdman, Lil Wayne, Young Jeezy and Rick Ross: 1000 Degrees: 19 Video: 2:53: 26s Lil Wayne and Chingy: 30 Minutes To New Orleans: 4 Corners Pimp C, Lil Wayne, Bow Wow, Lil Scrappy and Short Dawg: 4 My Dawgs Lil Wayne and Tyga: 4 My Town (Play Ball) Birdman, Lil Wayne, T-Pain and Drake. In the time since, we've seen him embrace many roles: the hyperactive teenage soldier the blinging bounce-rap hookmaster the mixtape assassin the syrup-sippin' space cadet experimentalist the Auto-Tuned pop-rap heartthrob and the wannabe rock star.įrom a distance, these creative periods seem disparate, if not completely schizophrenic, but the evolution makes sense when you look at his enormous body of work as a whole. Inducted to the Cash Money family while still a young teen, the MC trained under some of Southern rap's greatest spitters. T-Pain- The third single off Tha Carter III peaking at 10 on the Billboard Hot 100 and 2 on Hot. Peaking at 14 on the Billboard Hot 100 and 3 on the rap charts and becoming a top 40 single. Lil Wayne's rise from scrappy New Orleanian underdog to one of rap's biggest stars (and easily one of its most talented) has been a slow one. Mannie Fresh- The Mannie Fresh produced track released in 2004 off Tha Carter album was Lil’ Wayne’s first solo major hit.

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