I’ve never been a huge Lil Wayne fan, but when he was in his prime from around 2005-2008, he was undeniably one of the biggest and most entertaining rappers in the game. During that “best rapper alive” era, Wayne found his lane and stayed in it. He recorded countless guest verses and mixtape tracks while perfecting his manic stream of consciousness style of rapping. But on I Am Not a Human Being II, Wayne is wildly inconsistent in everything, including beat selection, the quality of his lines, and even the genre of a few songs. This album sounds like Wayne took whatever unused tracks he had (no matter what they sounded like) and made an album out of them.
Wayne still has some clever bars, but instead of packing a whole verse with them, they barely punctuate lyrics about his unending obsession with weed, lean and sex. There are a few highlights like “Gunwalk” and “Trigger Finger” (at least until Soulja Boy starts rapping) which were both produced by Juicy J and Crazy Mike. The production Mike WiLL Made It and A+ cooked up for “Bitches Love Me” is great, and the T-Minus and Nikhil S. beat on “Rich As Fuck” is cool. There are some inexcusably bad tracks on here though (“Hello” is one of the worst things I’ve ever heard) and even the highlights aren’t that good.
