The Carter 2, Part 2: Like Father Like Son

A Cash Money cult favourite, 2006’s <i>Like Father, Like Son</i> collaboration marked the label’s official torch-passing from Birdman to his surrogate son. Lil Wayne’s solo work was getting weirder, but this was Southern rap at its purest. “Stuntin’ Like My Daddy” stomps like a rogue brass band, and “Over Here Hustlin’” blends Wayne’s free-associative freestyles with Big Tymers-era Birdman, spitting game over grimy organs. “I’m one sell-out record away from being famous”, Wayne rapped on slow jam “Don’t Die”—and he wasn’t wrong.