Day 215: "Typa Way" feat. T.I. – Dedication 5, 2013In the annals of Lil Wayne mixtape lore, I've always left Dedication 5 more or less buried in the back of the archives. Why pay attention to it when there is so much better Wayne to be found? Although it's technically part of the hallowed Dedication series, it arrived during the era of Lil Wayne in which Wayne seemed the most checked out of actually rapping. The laziness with which he approaches freestyles over tracks like "Started from the Bottom" and "Itchin" combined with the profusion of bad Young Money features means that D5 is, to an undeniable extent, the bloated mess that you might expect given its 27-song track list.Yet if you were to trim the fat to, say, ten songs, D5 has far more to redeem it than I ever realized. It opens with a Weeknd song. It features some of Chance the Rapper's best bars on "You Song," delivered after Acid Rap, well before Chance was a household name. It includes an alternate version of "Feds Watching" featuring T.I., along with two other T.I. appearances, including this uncredited one over Rich Homie Quan's "Type of Way." Did you know T.I. rapped over Rich Homie Quan's "Type of Way"? I didn't know that T.I. rapped over Rich Homie Quan's "Type of Way." But it rules. He also joins Wayne on Jay Z and Rick Ross's "FuckwithmeyouknowIgotit," and the two of them combine to far more grandiose and sinister action movie-quality ends than two of the greatest mafioso portraitists of all time. There's a freestyle over Wu-Tang Clan's "C.R.E.A.M" and another on A$AP Rocky's "Fuckin Problems." Wayne's ear for obscure Southern rap beats might not have been as finely tuned at this point as in the past, but he rises to dazzling shows of virtuosity on more than one occasion.Anyway, this isn't the best Wayne appearance of all time, but it's full of stupid-funny punchlines. He jabs at rivals for being like chickens, who can't fly, and he references Mary J. Blige, and he does say he's "hotter than the peppers Peter Piper ate." It's all the kind of stuff that sounds pretty dumb until you're super stoned and sitting around on your couch on the weekend, and suddenly all those punchlines become a lot more fun and goofy. And then T.I. shows up out of nowhere! How great is that?Follow Kyle Kramer on Twitter.