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Dec 21, 2010Human Being seems designed to keep Wayne in the public eye during his big-house stay, but he's a superstar who could pull a J.D. Salinger, and the press and public would still be obsessed with him. If nothing else, Human Being serves as a potent reminder that Wayne is still capable of both greatness and awfulness.
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Oct 28, 2010It may not be a great, or even particularly good album, but it does at least tide us over until Weezy become a free man, and the much talked about Tha Carter IV finally sees the light of day.
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Oct 27, 2010Wayne's ebullience is too curdled to be all that interesting on its own –- not to mention that he can do so much better.
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Oct 26, 2010Lil Wayne's latest album, I Am Not a Human Being, is not as experimental as the rapper's previous rock-tinged "Rebirth" set that arrived earlier this year, and most fans will likely appreciate this.
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Though this is a flawed and scattershot project, Wayne remains an artist who makes music like a patissier--his songs are frivolous, delicious, and meant to be relished for just a moment.
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Wayne has already done better versions of almost every song on I Am Not a Human Being, which was released on his 28th birthday last week. It's not exactly what we're looking for now.
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You won't hear a funnier record all year. Jailbird or civilian, human or moon man, Lil Wayne is pop's most reliable deliverer of unadulterated fun.
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This is too short and scattered to put on his top shelf, but it comes awfully close, which is downright astonishing considering the circumstances.
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I Am Not a Human Being is kind of a crummy album, rife with laziness and repetition.
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When Wayne is on, he's one of the best in the game, but on Human Being he's just killing time with sub-par versions of his far more popular songs – this is a completely superfluous release that lacks the relevance and immediacy of his mixtape works and the quality-control of his albums.
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I Am Not a Human Being's angry title track showcases Wayne's ability to at once spit funny similes and tough talk, but its punk-hop guitar riffs barely even compete with the ones on his much-derided 2010 rock album, Rebirth.
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While diversity is Lil Wayne's strength, it's a lack of commitment of a different sort that hamstrings this album. Too often Lil Wayne lapses into predictable flow structures, quick ideas paired with built-in rejoinders.
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Typically, the complaints against Wayne are that he's annoying, grating, and ubiquitous; but for the first time he's made himself seem uninteresting, which is far more career-threatening.
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For most of I Am Not a Human Being, it seems like Wayne has forgotten how to write a verse. He's all about couplets now.
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It's unclear whether the creative languor stems from the inherent commercial pressure of being the Young Money meal ticket or whether Wayne has exhausted his ideas after compressing a career's worth of songs into three years.
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UncutSep 19, 2012{A] far superior effort [than Rebirth]. [Feb 2011, p.84]
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Sep 19, 2012It's a perfunctory affair, further fragmented on my download version by the muting of Wayne's stream of expletives, which renders large parts of it unintelligible.
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User score distribution:
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Positive: 42 out of 108
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Mixed: 29 out of 108
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Negative: 37 out of 108
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