How were Lil Wayne's record sales Pre-Carter III

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My friend said that prior to Carter III, Wayne was going platinum in a month with The Carter and Carter II. I really do not recall. But consensus is that hehad to make a Pop singles like Lollipop and Got Money in order to blow up the way he did.
 
"The Block is Hot" (Double platinum)

"Lights Out" (Gold)

"500 Degreez" also went Gold

"Tha Carter" (Platinum)

"Tha Carter 2" went Double platinum
 
Originally Posted by NothinAfter

features is what blew wayne up!
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Yeah...I read one of his interviews where he said doing "Soldier" for Destiny Child is when his status started going up
 
Mixtapes like the Prefix..Suffix...Carter Squared..and Dedication series got wayne noticed
 
^^^^stop sayin wayne wasnt really poppin until "soldier" dude got commercial status then but he was always hot n always sold gold+
Originally Posted by mrflightclub23

"The Block is Hot" (Double platinum)

"Lights Out" (Gold)

"500 Degreez" also went Gold

"Tha Carter" (Platinum)

"Tha Carter 2" went Double platinum
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Originally Posted by bmorekicks

Originally Posted by NothinAfter

features is what blew wayne up!
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Yeah...I read one of his interviews where he said doing "Soldier" for Destiny Child is when his status started going up
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Jay Z suggeted that wayne and tip be on that song so are u saying Jay jumpstarted his career?
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But Lights Out > Carter watever
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Originally Posted by VicRain24

Mixtapes like the Prefix..Suffix...Carter Squared..and Dedication series got wayne noticed
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naw, that's what developed his cult fallowing...that's when you had hood n's saying he was the best rapper alive
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, atleast you could have made a less laughable case back then

Wayne had been noticed though...Maybe it was only in my parts but Go DJ was played to deaath

Originally Posted by bmorekicks


Yeah...I read one of his interviews where he said doing "Soldier" for Destiny Child is when his status started going up
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pretty much, his numbers were always solid, The Block Is Hot went double plat for God's sake but when Carter 1 dropped is when dude started to emerge intoa star of his own...The Block Is Hot through 500 Hundred Degreez he didn't really have an identity. I know i still viewed him as lil n' from the HotBoyz. A lot of his new younger fans probably don't even know who Turk, BG, or Juve are, it's just Wayne.
 
Yeah I noticed him rap difffently on Soldier I heard Jay-Z coached and told him to flow like that. It's dope though, but I didn't really start takingweezy serious til The Carter II, then he got better and bottomed out with the Carter III LOL. All good though Carter III wasn't that bad.
 
Originally Posted by purplehazze96

Originally Posted by VicRain24

Mixtapes like the Prefix..Suffix...Carter Squared..and Dedication series got wayne noticed
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naw, that's what developed his cult fallowing...that's when you had hood n's saying he was the best rapper alive
eyes.gif
, at least you could have made a less laughable case back then

Wayne had been noticed though...Maybe it was only in my parts but Go DJ was played to deaath

Originally Posted by bmorekicks


Yeah...I read one of his interviews where he said doing "Soldier" for Destiny Child is when his status started going up
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pretty much, his numbers were always solid, The Block Is Hot went double plat for God's sake but when Carter 1 dropped is when dude started to emerge into a star of his own...The Block Is Hot through 500 Hundred Degreez he didn't really have an identity. I know i still viewed him as lil n' from the Hot Boyz. A lot of his new younger fans probably don't even know who Turk, BG, or Juve are, it's just Wayne.
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Exacctlyy So what im saying is around the time of the Carter 1 dropping......where he had the Suffix and Prefix mixtapes..he started coming into his own as anoticed star
After the Carter 1......then people started saying hmmmmmmmmm this dude might be "the best rapper alive"
 
I guess it's a regional thing cause down south Wayne has been big his whole career ever sense the Bling Bling days.
 
Originally Posted by thagreatj

its funny how folks forget he was pretty big with the HotBoys...
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i don't think anybody who actually remembers/listened to him when he was with the Hot Boyz does. But that's the thing though, they were the Hot Boyz,not Lil Wayne and crew.
 
Wayne been hot down south EASILY, since like 1997. At 15 or 16 y/o. The only hot boy that I thought didnt have star power was Turk. Juve, BG and Wayne alltook that hot boy fame and ran with it.
 
Originally Posted by Agthekid

I guess it's a regional thing cause down south Wayne has been big his whole career ever sense the Bling Bling days.
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It wasnt jus regional, wayne the hotbouys been big in ohio, word to its all on you vol. 1 +2!
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it was the squad up tapes that got him love in the hood... at least where i'm from.

that was when he was mimicking jays flow, straight kneepads but he did kill *+%
 
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