How To Love

The third single from Lil Wayne's Tha Carter IV album is arguably the Young Money Head Honcho's first ballad. Accompanied by a strumming acoustic guitar, he croons: "You had a lot of crooks try to steal your heart/ Never really had luck/ Could never figure out/ How to love." Reviewers pondered how much the Detail produced tune was influenced by Weezy's love interest, Dhea.

the song's producer, Detail, told MTV News the R&B ballad was recorded in Miami during a session in November 2010, and he used Lil Wayne and Birdman's 2006 single "Leather So Soft" as inspiration. "We created it in a very organic way; he's a very organic person," he said. "The crazy part about it was I know Wayne plays guitar. If y'all ever seen the I Am Music Tour, he be playing the guitar. So we created something that was like 'Leather So Soft,' where he could rock out with the guitar. We're visual with that type of stuff, so we just created a simple guitar riff that he can play on tour as well, over some 808s, a smooth ballad type of a beat. It wasn't nothing special, it was just something that felt strong. That was the type of record that would rock in his iPod and rock in my iPod for days and days and days before the world got a chance to experience the pleasure of something with such organic-ness."

Wayne told MTV News this slowed down ode to the ladies was inspired by a 1993 song by the late Tupac Shakur. "That song is just sweeping the world. It's touching every woman, that's what it was for," he said. "It was like Tupac had 'Keep Ya Head Up' and it was a message to women and little girls across the world just to keep your head up even though things are hard."

He added: "A lot of women don't know how to love because there's deep reasons for them not knowing how to love. And what I mean by deep reasons is deep and dark reasons. A lot of people don't open up that can and I figured that I can open up that can of worms and see what happens."