The song was also the highest-selling ringtone of the year because it sounds just like you’re living in a future where you carry around a telephone that can play music.
Wayne’s anguished vocals on the later choruses are locked into a melody they bristle against, revealing layers of desire, doubt, and drugs beneath a club track. It’s “Sexual Healing” for a new era of horny robot vocals. “Lollipop” was the inauguration of a sound that would get paradoxically more lucrative as it sunk to emotional depths. Wayne himself had experimented with the effect on his earlier mixtapes. When the song dropped on March 12th, Auto-Tune had already been used in the industry for years, and it even hit the spotlight a decade earlier on Cher’s “Believe”. The song’s video is dedicated to his memory. He died 16 days before its release of complications during a medical procedure. Garrett unfortunately never heard his masterwork on the radio. Wayne on “Lollipop” sounds like the man in an Aaliyah song, compensating for her icy confidence by laying bare exactly what he wants. He wrote for Destiny’s Child, Pretty Ricky, and most notably the majority of Aaliyah’s final self-titled album. Garrett was a popular R&B songwriter working on his own debut. Stephen Garrett co-wrote the track, and he’s featured as Static Major singing the hook. The chorus is simple enough to yell and flirtatious enough to croon. You know this song.) Wayne raps about a woman with swag like his who, to put it simply, wants to hump. “Lollipop” is a supremely syrupy anthem, glistening with Auto-Tune. The first single took full advantage of that spotlight to completely revolutionize pop music. A major label album with radio and video support could reach far more people in its rollout than a DatPiff link ever could. Even with all the Weezy material flooding the market, anticipation was sky high for TCIII. Enough tracks originally meant for the album leaked to eventually form their own tape, The Carter III Mixtape. In a pre-streaming era, these tapes were tossed into the online ether for free download, sharing space with fan-made mixes, and a steady stream of leaks.
made it his business to show up every other rapper on their own beats. When Tha Carter III dropped on June 10, 2008, it capped a jaw-dropping run of mixtapes where the rapper born Dwayne Carter Jr. If Weezy is an M.D., then Tha Carter III is a signed blank prescription pad, opening up a supply closet of pills and syrups, verses and hooks. Carter”, a female voice fills him in on the status of his patients, unnamed rappers that lack flow, metaphors, and respect for the game. Midway through his landmark album Tha Carter III, which celebrates its 10th anniversary this June, Lil Wayne plays doctor.
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