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Amazing reading that my favorite rapper Lil Wayne has a new album coming out, but I was drawn to this quote:
After most of the album leaked to the Internet in mid-2007, Lil Wayne decided to use the leaked tracks, plus four new tracks and make an album out of them, titled Tha Carter III: The Leak.The Leak will be officially released December 18, 2007, with the actual album being delayed until February 12, 2008. When questioned about the unplanned album leak, Lil Wayne said:
We have to find out exactly what’s out there. I’ll probably just [collect] all the songs that’s floating around and make my own mixtape called “The Leak” since people want the music so bad. To tell you the truth though, there’s a song I did with Kanye West out there—of course you want to save that for your album, but the rest of them songs probably wouldn’t have made the album. There’s a song floating around that says ‘produced by Timbaland’; Tim didn’t produce that record though.
What amazes me about this is that the Industry can’t move as fast as the creative work flowing out of Lil Wayne and his crew, but also you can see how deep and aggressive artists are now publicly in the face of their distribution deals. Of course, artists have done this for ages, especially Hip Hop artists .Its interesting just to see how giving away tracks actually helps the artists overall career, which is more valuable across the board than free content.
Of course, it should be noted that Lil Wayne is President of Cash Money records and founder of subsidiary, Young Money. Please note, both labels have distribution deals with Universal Records.
As I said last night over some drinks with other CC folk, hip-hop is 10 years ahead of the rest of the music industry. Ok, that is a bit of an exaggeration…I revise that to just say, hiphop is way ahead of the rest of music industry with Cash Money doing their thang since 1992 and hiphop artists adapting quickly to the changing landscape.
As a side note, R Kelly released a CC licensed track earlier this summer and I’m hopeful that we’ll get a lil wayne cc licensed track out soon…anyone on board for this?
i’ve had this version for weeks!
two months ago lil wayne told XXL that albums don’t matter anymore because real hip-hop fans all download music!
also, lil wayne does all of his guest spots via email.
wayne == future
Yah, I read that XXL interview…totally amazing! Yah, Lil Wayne rules supreme…by far the greatest rapper alive!
Wezzy is definetely the best rapper alive..Hands down…The Best ever….
Weezy F. Baby=The Best Rapper Alive
WHERE’s the ALBUM????
ya for real wheres the damn album its the 18th almost the 19th and i cant find it out anywhere wtf
for real…
WATS UP WIV DA ALBUM NOT OUT YET ITZ DA 19TH WTF
Man, I bet his label put the clamps on that shiiiit….what do you guys think?
Yea the album was just a hoax. This is what Cash Money records does. They know C3 may be the most anticipated album of all time and they had to do something to keep fans at bay until Feb. If you ask me all it did was piss fans off. I cant find the album either because THERE IS NO ALBUM! I know it sux butget used to it if u a Cah Money/Young Money fan…
P.S. Currency “Tha Hot Spitta” has just annouced he has left Young Money… check out http://www.defsounds.com … the Rumors column on the right side.
Where da album at…there is no album. suppose to cum out december 18???????
But lookin 4ward 4 Tha Carter 3
Weezy F Bay Bay fo life
who cares about the album…u can download every single song for free..if u dont have them i can get them for you
Yep, I found the entire leak on http://btjunkie.org
the album is coming out may 13th dont believe it out at
http://www.metacritic.com/music/upcomingreleases.shtml
lil wayne needs to hurry the fuck up
damnnnn i wana get the albumm badddd relly when is this shittt cominggg outttt its sundayyy i hope tomoroww right ?