When he began speaking about “Tha Carter V” several years ago, he described it as his final solo album. A star since he was a teenager, he has been releasing music for two decades. Lil Wayne, now 36 years old, has come to feel like an elder, his innovations so baked into the genre as to be nigh invisible. Cole, a modern moralist reinvigorating the modes of two decades ago. For others, it’s Future and Young Thug - themselves children of Lil Wayne - and their distended wails. For some, Drake is the paterfamilias, with his pan-regional pastiche pop-rap. In the four or so years since Lil Wayne’s “Tha Carter V” was first intended for release, hip-hop - which was for a time gleefully remaking itself in Lil Wayne’s image - found new tributaries, new role models.
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