Lil Wayne- The Carter 2 =link= -

Tha Carter II dropped in December. It wasn't an album. It was a hostile takeover.

“I got a pink slip, a brain slip, a spaceship, a blank script…” LIL WAYNE- the carter 2

See, everyone had a first safe: the obvious one. The rhymes about what you see—the Cadillac doors swinging up, the diamonds dancing under the strobes, the enemy’s blood on your Timberlands. That was Tha Carter . That paid the bills. Tha Carter II dropped in December

Not a real safe. Not metal. This one was mental. “I got a pink slip, a brain slip,

He turned the volume up. His own voice echoed off the water.

Dwayne nodded. He didn’t say that the street was just a backdrop now. The real battle was internal. It was the war between the boy who used to cry himself to sleep after his stepfather beat his mother, and the man who was about to tattoo a tear drop on his face not for a fallen soldier, but for his own lost innocence.