What the hell is the hold up? The Carter 3 was slated for being released May 15, but now apparently it has been pushed back to June.
Wayne is the king right now and his name is buzzing, so he should know what he's doing, but he should watch it because his popularity could dwindle in the next month. Not likely, but possible.
If we recall, Carter 2 dropped in 2005. It went Platinum and Carter 1 went Gold.
Wayne's goal is to try to make music on this album that will stick with you forever, and this is why he's taking his time with the album. He wants to put songs that he did collabs with people he respects and admires, not ones his label set up.
Hopefully this doesn't kill Wayne's buzz, but I guess it's keeping the word "Carter 3" in our minds.
Stay tuned for more updates on C3.
Wednesday, April 9, 2008
Carter 3 Pushed Back! New release date June 10!
What Happens to Hip Hop After the Carter 3 drops?
Many of you probably haven't even thought about it because over the past year, Lil Wayne has been in the public eye with his numerous mixtape releases. He doesn't even release the mixtapes directly, but mixtape DJ's have been latching onto his fame and success to release recycled Lil Wayne tapes. Weezy F. Baby has done a great job getting our attention for over a year now and we've pretty much taken for granted that he's one of the hottest, if not the hottest rapper out (no homo).
We noticed that Jim Jones last year was on a bunch of remixes, then kinda faded out gently with a slight increase in activity with the release of Harlem American Gangster. Jim was MUCH more visible in the past but has taken a back seat to regroup and come out again later. Kanye West was starting to make some noise and did the whole gimmicky 50 Cent Beef to fuel album sales, then after his album dropped he's kinda quiet. 50 Cent also did the same thing, kinda got quiet, but is back to building up for his G Unit album with all these mixtapes coming out on his website.
So The Carter 3 is coming out next month and we can only assume that Wayne is going to fall back for a little bit and make the public miss him. If he keeps dropping material AFTER Carter 3 immediately, there is really no value in the album.
This raises the question though, after C3 drops, who the hell is going to take over the rap game? My guess is 50 Cent, he's hungry again and knows how to work the mixtape scene in his favor. With T.I. on his recent collection of work, it's not out of the question to guess he might put out some mixtapes as well, but probably not at the level of Wayne to be at the center of attention. Could it be some previously unknown rapper to emerge as the next king of the mixtape scene?
Only time can tell.
CHECK OUT THE SUPPOSED COVER FOR THE CARTER 3!!
LOL...This can't be real. but apparently, it's on amazon.com...
Tuesday, March 25, 2008
CARTER 3 HAS A SET RELEASE DATE....MAY 13
Update on the Carter 3. The label is finally putting out a release date for the album and its supposed to drop May 13. The hype is building...
Wednesday, March 19, 2008
LIL WAYNE CLAIMS EMINEM IS "SCARED TO GET ON A SONG WITH ME"
Check out the newest Wayne interview, where he talks about getting love for his music outside the country and more on the Carter 3. Talks about how Kanye gave him a bunch of tracks and he had to ask Kanye to stop for a little while. Mentions that he gave Eminem a track, but Eminem never got on it because he was "too busy", or in other words, "scared to get on the song". He goes on to talk about his first single "Lollipop" and why he chose it as the first single for C3. The interviewer brings up Pimp C (RIP) and the sizzurp; talks about how fans think Wayne should stop, but Wayne reassures the fans that he's fine.
Monday, March 17, 2008
CARTER 3 COVER?
Here is the SUPPOSED Carter 3 cover...we never know with photoshop these days but it appears Wayne's deviating from his Jay-Z style covers...this one doesn't look that much like Life and Times Vol. 3
UPDATE: LIL WAYNE "A MILLIE" (street single)
Check out the new track, it's the DJ version though. If anyone's got a link to the no dj version, hook me up.
LIL WAYNE CARTER PREVIEW : "A Millie"
Video interview of Weezy talkin about some tracks in his upcoming Carter 3. The track he's previewing sounds hot. Check it out.
Saturday, February 23, 2008
A PREVIEW....THE CARTER 3
Yesterday, Blender traveled to Atlanta to visit Lil Wayne — it was our second Weezyscursion in three months, the first being for this recent feature — and the wildly prolific MC was nice enough to play us several tracks intended for his forever-delayed LP, Tha Carter III. We didn't hear final mixes — and it's anyone's guess if titles (much less entire songs) will stick — but what we did hear was enough to convince us that the album will (almost) be worth the long, long wait. (It's currently set for an April release.) The rundown below is lighter on lyrics than sonic description largely because the internal rhymes, dazzlingly extended metaphors and references to food stacked up faster than we could write them down — a good sign for Weezy diehards.
>> "Lollipop"
"I'm not a lollipop rapper," Wayne told us, by way of introducing this song as the radio single, "but this track is cold." It's one of many new Wayne songs to feature T-Pain/Roger Troutman vocoder singing effects and it transcends its boner-as-blow-pop conceit on the force of its strangeness: Wayne's singing isn't just a run through the T-Wayne ProTools patch, it's chopped up and layered over itself in a dense, alien collage. It actually de-naturalizes the vocoder gimmick, which is as common as high-hats nowadays. "Dudes are gonna hate this one," he said. "Ugly dudes, that is."
>> "Beat the Block"
Hollowed-out and bleepy. The percussion approximates African hand drums, which is why Wayne refers to the track as "Kunte Kinte" at one point; he rides the Alex Haley reference, rapping that he eats "Roots for dinner," before adding that he's "In the garden, feeding fruits to sinners." He also tells us about a girl who likes "the Weezy F — I bad-grade her."
>> "Eat You Alive" [ft. Ludacris]
The T-Wayne effect is back and pushed to an avant-garde extreme: multitracked, demonic, paired with pained female vocals that intone "he's gonna eat you aliiiiiive." Wayne likes food, and this is about comparing rappers to food and then going Audrey II on them. The math here is simple: Wayne makes any track he's on better + Ludacris makes any track he's on better = A Möbius strip continuum of WTF?!
>> "I'm Illi"
This "street single" produced by "Bossy" beatsmith Bangladesh should be released to radio next week. There is no hook — just non-stop rhymes over a thunderously spare backdrop: a screwed-down vocal sample repeating "I'm Illi," pounding 808 drums and claps.
>> "Let the Beat Build"
Drums by longtime Wayne producer/engineer Deezle, ethereal soul sample by Kanye West. Structured something like Coldplay's "The Scientist," which is to say we start with nothing but melody for about 8 bars, and then 808 drum sounds are introduced glacially: high hats for four bars, high hats and snares for the next four, and so on, so that the song revs up in an excitingly disjointed, slow motion way.
Source - http://www.blender.com/Exclusive-Previewing-Lil-Waynes-Tha-Carter-III/Blender-Blog/blogs/1168/18751.aspx
Friday, February 22, 2008
THE CARTER 3....THIS APRIL?
Lil' Wayne took time out of his schedule to visit his old school, Eleanor McMain Secondary School on Tuesday (Feb. 19).
Before stepping on the schools' premises, Wayne revealed on his tour bus that April would be the release for his highly anticipated album, Tha Carter III. "I make it worse for Universal [Records]," said Wayne to MTV News, blaming the delays on the amount of music he creates. "I keep doing new songs every other day. I don't stop working, so I don't know when they gonna get that. Everything I do be better than the last, like, 'Oh, this gotta make the album!' "
He's made many songs for Tha Carter III that the guest list reads like this: Hurricane Chris, Jay-Z, Corey Gunz, Wayne's artist Tiger, Lil Mama, Busta Rhymes, Juelz Santana, Fabolous, Baby, Brisco, Dre (of Cool & Dre), and Ludacris. Alchemist, Swizz Beatz, Cool & Dre, Kanye West, Jim Johnson and in-house producer Diesel have all made beats for the album.
The first single is currently "A Millie," while the second one will be "Lollipop," which features songwriter Static, who has written for Aaliyah, Timbaland and Missy Elliott.
"That's me. I love music," said Wayne of the new tattoo on his face, which says "I Am Music" in red letters. "I found a love for music. I owe it all to a lot of people in the game. They don't even know."
When Weezy finally got around to visiting his Eleanor McMain Secondary, he sat down with an art class full of juniors and seniors. Wayne began at the school in seventh grade, and met his manager Cortez Bryant. Wayne discussed the impact his mother had in his life, and even said he hoped that one day he and his daughter could be lie Miley and Billy Ray Cyrus. Lil' Wayne was even asked to prom by a girl named Julie on April 19.
"I'll be out the country then. Sorry," replied Wayne with a smile.
"Coming back to speak to them is super-important," said Wayne of his visit. "It was my school. I went to that school. I attended that school. It shows them somebody from there made it. It makes them feel like you can do it. That right there was so important. I see it in their eyes, like, 'We can do something.' Not just doing what I'm doing, but, 'We can be successful.' "
Story from Allhiphop.com
