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Unlike some of the people on the main page, I like to frequent the forums of Defsounds. I find it to be refreshing, because the volume of traffic is a lot smaller then the main page, so conversations can be started and finished without to many random intteruptions. Another thing that I enjoy about the forums are the great discussions that they have, so today when I logged on and saw the newest discussion, I knew that I just had to share it with you guys.

One of the more dedicated members of the forum Ballin101 created a new poll thread titled "The Carters V.S. The Blueprints". The explanation was quite simple, he wanted the members of the forum to pick which one they though was the better series of albums, was it the Blueprint series or the Carter series? Members of the forum began to respond right away giving their input, some picking The Carter series saying that the Carter's one and two were better then Blueprint 2 and 3, while others argued that the first Blueprint outweighed anything that Wayne had ever made so their was no competition.

The conversation really made me think about the albums and what I thought about them. It also made me want to know what you guys thought, so I figured why not accomplish both goals. Heres what I think.

First off, Lil Wayne is a great artist, but he or any current rapper has no album that will ever match up to the first Blueprint, so it's out of the question. As far as Blueprint II, I think it received such poor reviews, because it came right after a classic album. if Kobe Bryant scores 81 points in one game, then comes back the next game and drops 45 does that mean that he had a bad game? Yes there is definitely a drop off in the number of points he had compared to the other game, but if you look at it realisticly not many people can drop 45 points in one game. I think that Blueprint II was Hov's 45 point game follow up to scoring 100 points, so since Blueprint II wasn't as effective as the first one people deemed it a dissapointment.

I actually loved Blueprint II; that's the album that was playing in my speakers before I left my house today and to be quite honest I dont think Carter II was better than Blueprint 2 either. Blueprint 3The Carter 3 although its still fairly new, it is still far superior to , like I said in the review, C3 could have been a mixtape. You could tell that there was no real effort in putting these songs in the album, besides the fact that they were the best songs that he made at the time. Lollipop was a fun song, and it did great in the clubs, but seriously I barely remember it anymore. Mr. Carter had the chance to be one of those timeless songs, but Wayne blew it by flopping in the clutch with his last verse, and other then that everything else is pretty average. Blueprint 3 has what is arguably the new New York Anthem with "Empire State Of Mind", one of those moment capturing songs with "Forever Young" and the ultimate motivator with "So Ambitious" those three songs alone outweigh whatever Wayne was trying to do with C3. So at the end of the day, the Blueprint series wins it for me by a lot. The only two albums that can be close in quality and effort in my opinion are the Blueprint 2, and the first Carter. So just to break it down in plain language here it is.

Blueprint over Wayne's entire career

Blueprint II over The Carter II

Blueprint III over The Carter III