Of the mixtape’s 24 tracks, one-third of them find Wayne rapping on beats previously employed by Drake (“Hotline Bling,” “Back to Back”), Future (“Where Ya At”) or Drake and Future (five songs from What a Time to Be Alive). No Ceilings 2 doesn’t have much in common with its predecessor other than its overall scope: While the original mixtape had 21 songs, Wayne ups that on the sequel, as No Ceilings 2 runs through 24 songs over the span of almost 100 minutes. Download No Ceilings 2 over at Live Mixtapes.
The latest mixtape is the sequel to Wayne’s 2009 mixtape that helped bridge the gap between 2008’s Tha Carter III and 2010’s Rebirth. Lil Wayne is making it a habit of dropping mammoth mixtapes on national holidays: After the Free Weezy Album arrived on July 4th, the rapper’s No Ceilings 2 appeared just as fans were sitting down for Thanksgiving dinner.