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Yes, the leak kind of came out, but not really. The tracks that were leaked were slightly okay, but I have to ask, is lil Wayne doing too many drugs now or is he leading the hip hop masses into the land of hip-hop pyschedilia (or would that be cyberdelia)?

From this hiphopdx article he states:

“Fuck it, I’m not even a rapper. I’m past that…I’m an R&B singer now. Call me T-Wayne,” he said, after previewing a new song in which he sings with a vocoder. “I have an album coming out called Luv Sawngz. It’s me being more creative, more talented, more than hip-hop.”

I personally can’t stand these tracks, but, I’m totally into Lil Wayne experimenting and sending out constant shockwaves around the world of stagnant hip-hop

Regardless, his latest track lollipop, in which he uses a vocoder, is getting good airplay and he is working with DJ Drama on Dedication 3…brilliant!

BTW: I’m partially blogging this because I’m getting tons of traffic from any post I make about lil wayne…nearly 20% of my traffic is from lil wayne posts right now! Web folks, please do think about what this means for all the ad-clickers out there If you are really looking for the leak, get http://bittorrent.org and go here.

Check out Eric and Noah’s Throwing away broken electronics (video) - Boing Boing
“>awesome video from their group Meanest Man Contest…this video reminds me of grad school at UCSD, where we regularly smashed electronics. I’m talking daily My favorite time though was when I came out of my studio in grad school and saw a refrigerator being tossed from 3 stories up…amazingly destructive and masculine and all those bad things you aren’t supposed to do, but do because you are stuck in the middle of nowhere with too much time on your hands

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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?