This is an indulgent jumble of a sideline release, but that doesn't mean Wayne isn't in fine form.
You're better off soaking in the good choices here and resigning yourself to enduring the bad ones.
For the casual Weezy fan (one that hears the music but doesn't listen), I Am Not a Human Being II is perfect mindless fun. However, for those who expected more from this repeatedly delayed effort, Wayne may have to hop in his spaceship and try again.
Rappers are rarely less appealing than when they’re rhyming about getting off, a subject that tends to invite misplaced aggression and puerile humor, and that’s especially true for Wayne, who seems to regress deeper into a middle-school mindset with each passing year.
There's a few moments of quality here, but nowhere near enough to sustain interest over the albums hour.
I Am Not a Human Being II is a poor effort for sure, but more startling might be the fact that it’s over five years now since Wayne was anything near his peak and he shows no signs of reversing the slump.
The beats are so simple that they’re a nonfactor, and there aren’t very many funny lines — which was Wayne’s most redeeming quality in the past.
I Am Not a Human Being II, its release symbolically coinciding with Wayne’s near-death experience, is the sound of a rapper flatlining.
In order to convince a fan to love an album nowadays, it just can't be considered "good enough", with three or four good songs. It'd be a stretch to say IANAHB2 had any more than that.
No song on II is meaningfully distinguishable from the next. Everything pumps out in an undifferentiated slurry of interchangeable dick jokes, drug references, and lame puns.
Even as someone who appreciates more of Lil Wayne’s output than most, the best thing I can say about I Am Not a Human Being II is that it’s not essential.
Wayne's 10th studio album sees memory of his charisma and sparkle during that mid '00s era fade further.
Wayne doesn’t just make dick jokes: he sets a Guinness World Record for the most phallic metaphors in any rap album, ever.
The music isn’t as good as it was, sure, but what’s truly maddening is his apparent indifference to his own decline.
i don't think there is a single song with more bars that made me go "what" than IANAHB
RATING: 73.6/100
Again, the second part of "I am Not A Human Being" is not a bad album, at least for me, It's worse than the first one slightly, nonetheless it's still overhated.
The heavy 808s and and mainstream features make for a mostly good experience.
It's not without it's flaws, Soulja Boy is a surprisingly decent feature on Trigger Finger, but the song he produced is completely trash with those annoying ass airhorns.
On other tracks, Weezy fails to match his delivery with the ... read more
After he said, "I'm in the ocean getting shark pussy" That's when it started going down hill. This album is not consistently awful, there's a few bangers here and there, and I even enjoy a lot of the corny punchlines that Wayne throws out there. My problem is with the final 5 tracks, being the most boring repetitive doodoo balls I've heard in my life. That 1/3 of the album single-handedly dragged this down below Rebirth for me... And the features sucked beer nuts as well o(≧口≦)o
pretty ok album. if you like wayne you will like most songs, if you dont like wayne you will hate this album.
1 | IANAHB 5:38 | 63 |
2 | Curtains 4:31 feat. Boo | 48 |
3 | Days and Days 3:13 feat. 2 Chainz | 56 |
4 | Gunwalk 4:31 feat. Gudda Gudda | 62 |
5 | No Worries 3:41 feat. Detail | 51 |
6 | Back to You 5:29 | 47 |
7 | Trigger Finger 4:32 feat. Soulja Boy | 57 |
8 | Beat the Shit 4:28 feat. Gunplay | 32 |
9 | Rich As Fuck 3:43 feat. 2 Chainz | 70 |
10 | Trippy 4:23 feat. Juicy J | 61 |
11 | Love Me 4:13 | 67 |
12 | Romance 4:20 | 51 |
13 | God Bless Amerika 5:03 | 75 |
14 | Wowzerz 3:45 feat. Trina | 17 |
15 | Hello 4:02 feat. Shane Heyl | 35 |