After Mack Maine revealed that Tha Carter V would be delayed just a day before it’s planned drop date, Lil Wayne himself released a video blog yesterday (October 28) to announce that the album will be split into two parts with the first half due out on December 9.
“Honestly, I been working hard every motherfucking day on this album and this album mean a whole lot to me,” Wayne says in the video. “I know the real fans out there, it means a whole lot to them too. I kind of refuse to cheat them and just give them anything rushed. I recorded so many songs we had to come up with an idea or a way to get all the music out there and not just 13 songs or 12 songs.”
In the clip Wayne claims to have recorded 31 songs for the album before announcing the plan to split the project in half.
“Back in the days, I know ya’ll can remember you could put 31 songs on the album,” he says. “Well now the time limits on albums and CDs or whatever you wanna call it you can’t do that now. Like I said, I worked too much on this album, y’all. Day and night, night and day. I got too many songs recorded and I worked on way too much to just give y’all half of it. If would have dropped the album today it would have had to be like 12 or 13 songs. I was like, ‘I refuse to do it. I refuse to cheat my fans. I refuse to cheat myself.’ We have to come up with a way to give people every song that I been in here recording. And so, we came up with that idea.
“So, the first part of the album will be dropping December 9,” Wayne says near the end of the video. “Again, the first part of Tha Carter V album will be dropping December 9. Stay tuned for the next part of the album. It’s gonna be crazy. I worked too hard.”
Lil Wayne also took the PSA to preview the album’s first single called “Gotti” featuring The Lox.
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sounds like a cash grab to me. making his fans pay for all his throwaway and filler tracks instead of putting them out on a mixtape.
quality over quantity always wins.
No, that’s a result of wayne making too many great tracks. Tha Carter 5 will of course make more money as a result but the tracks from the project I heard are dope so far.
The promotion around this will be stretched out through the Holiday season – a pretty smart move IMO. Watch them announce a tour and offer tickets right before Christmas shopping starts. It’s probably a combination of him being legit in what he’s saying, and just taking advantage of a larger business opportunity.
Pulling a Twilight on yall
Dope series BTW.
Twilight Rules!
“No, that’s a result of wayne making too many great tracks. Tha Carter 5 will of course make more money as a result but the tracks from the project I heard are dope so far.”
Wayne didn’t make any great tracks. You didn’t hear anything besides the singles, which are all trash just like the album will be.
BTW, Twilight sucks ass. Hunger Games is better.
500k first week bitches.
and how much do you get from that
I get paid well from accounting the sales thank you very much.
You don’t even have a job, so you ain’t getting paid to make up fake numbers. BTW, C5 will never do 500K 1st week.
Nope. Its shady records that won’t do 500k first week.
No, it’s Wayne who won’t do 500K 1st week.
I can almost guarantee it will not drop on 12/9. Probably April.
Hold uphere’s a concept, sounds KRAZYbut wit about a Double Album?? BS reasons for pushing back, waterer
Pulling a Hunger Games on yall
Yawn
Seriously? CDs Have a 90 minute limit on them. CDs not MP3s, CDs. People really aren’t informed. You can drop 50 songs on digital format, with all of them being 9 minutes long. Digital doesn’t have a time limit, and most cats don’t but CDs. Garbage. Would cost more to throw out a 4 disc CD.
Yeah keep copying eminem bitch.
Taylor Swift (Big Machine) 1.1-1.2m
Now 52 (NOW) 90-95k
Sam Hunt (MCA Nashville) 60-65k
Led Zeppelin (IV) (Rhino) 35-40
Led Zeppelin (Houses of the Holy) (Rhino) 30-35k
Black Veil Brides (Lava/Republic) 30-35k
Barry Manilow (Verve) 30-35k
Chris Tomlin (sixstepsrecords) 30-35k
Trip Lee (Reach) 17-20k
Taylor swift being a huge success again (I prefer her first 3 albums though. Were more country and didn’t need pop gimmicks.).
Trip Lee doing ok for indie. Don’t see Stalley on there though despite being major.
Attention everyone, Stalley is indeed doing very well but there’s a glitch that prevented some figures from being displayed and we hope to get back to you ASAP.
Obviously teethbitch.
How in the hell do those NOW albums still sell? People should’ve already bought and/or downloaded the songs that are on those albums that there’s no need to buy the songs all over again.
Tha Carter 5.1>>>> Eminem’s latest pop shit.
You got it backwards. It’s Wayne who has pop shit and also, Eminem’s music>>>>>>>>>>C5 pop shit
I got it right asshole.
No. you didn’t. You got it wrong.
weezy gonna come strong with this album, believe me
I’m still pumped I really think this album should be solid, and be at least one of the best albums this year, which isn’t saying much when you had shit like black Hollywood be one of the biggest albums so far
I hope Lil wayne’s head get split in two
CRINE!
two albums of straight bubble gum nursery rhymes.
lil wayne is birdman’s lover
Young Thug is a lyrical mastermind. Much better than the likes of Big L, Lord Finesse, Big Daddy Kane, or Kool G Rap. That’s backpack shit. White boy shit. Shit for nerds. Young Thug runs rap bruh. Yeah.
*Watches Young Thugs nut drip from your chin.*